This paper focuses on four popular UK based, desi food blogs by Anjali Pathak, Hari Ghotra, Mallika Basu, and Chintal Kakaya, who are ambassadors of the global justice charity Find Your Feet’s (FYF) ‘Curry for Change’ (CFC) campaign. Reconfiguring and challenging geographical parameters and national boundaries, the bloggers team up with FYF to help fight hunger in African and Asian rural communities. Using the Internet as a platform to create awareness about the charity, the blogs share recipes and meal plans for dinner parties hosted in honour of the charity and invite the public to fundraising events. Concerned with human rights, these bloggers affect social change by empowering individuals and communities to participate in civic engagement, and occasionally to even challenge unfair government policies/ practices. The blogs’ efficacy can also be measured through the funds raised, the public attention they receive from channels such as Indian food network and London Live, local/regional newspapers such as the London Evening Standard, and magazines like India’s Complete Wellbeing Magazine. Food blogs that actively contribute to global justice movements cannot be seen as domestic reflections or exercises in nostalgia anymore. Referring to Habermas’s notion of the public sphere and Nancy Fraser’s concept of the transnational public sphere, I examine these food blogs as transnational public spheres. Based on textual analysis of blog entries related specifically to the CFC campaign and an examination of FYF’s annual reviews, this paper examines how these food blogs have expanded in form and function by engaging in cyberactivism.

本文重点介绍由全球正义慈善机构 Find Your Feet (FYF) “Curry for Change” (CFC) 活动的大使 Anjali Pathak、Hari Ghotra、Mallika Basu 和 Chintal Kakaya 撰写的四个英国受欢迎的 desi 美食博客。重新配置和挑战地理参数和国界，博主与 FYF 合作，帮助非洲和亚洲农村社区对抗饥饿。这些博客利用互联网作为提高慈善意识的平台，分享为纪念慈善而举办的晚宴的食谱和膳食计划，并邀请公众参加筹款活动。关注人权，这些博主通过授权个人和社区参与公民参与来影响社会变革，有时甚至挑战不公平的政府政策/做法。伦敦标准晚报，以及印度的Complete Wellbeing Magazine等杂志。积极为全球正义运动做出贡献的美食博客不再被视为国内反思或怀旧练习。参考哈贝马斯的公共领域概念和南希·弗雷泽的跨国公共领域概念，我将这些美食博客视为跨国公共领域。基于对专门与 CFC 活动相关的博客条目的文本分析和对 FYF 年度评论的审查，本文研究了这些美食博客如何通过参与网络活动而在形式和功能上扩展。