The Food Politics and Society cluster is an interdisciplinary forum where interested scholars explore the dynamic impact of food and food systems at multiple levels--individual, household, community, society, national and international. The cluster welcomes diverse methodological approaches, from deploying ethnographic and archival skills to using visual and textual tools, as well as leveraging quantitative datasets. Open to examination of contemporary developments and historical trajectories, the empirical locus of the cluster’s food scholarship privileges Asia, an incredibly rich laboratory in which to study the intersections among power relations, vested interests, complex networks, and contested meanings of food that permeate our past, present and future lives.