Conclusion: Food, Nationalism and Politics

Ichijo, Atsuko; Ranta, Ronald

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“…Identity, in this respect, is not only personal but also social; it is constructed and maintained through processes of identification and the sharing of values and propositions that define group membership and sustain social cohesion. Greene and Cramer (2011: xii) pointed out that food works as a ‘socialising mechanism by which we come to understand our cultures, our societies, and the groups to which we belong’ (see also Ichijo and Ranta, 2016). Fischler (1988: 280) emphasized the extent to which food and cuisine are at the centre of migrants’ sense of collective belonging as they ‘mark their membership of a culture or a group by asserting the specificity of what they eat, or more precisely – but it amounts to the same thing – by defining the otherness, the difference of others’.…”

Section: Food Collective and Cultural Identity Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is here suggested that sharing memories about the food that was eaten back home, complaining about the price, freshness and genuineness of Italian ingredients in local supermarkets, Italians find a common linguistic code that I believe reinforces their sense of membership and belonging to the transnational community. As scholars have shown, food – and its ethnic and cultural symbolism – works as ‘an aesthetic, cultural and semiotic code’ in defining and strengthening group membership (Grew, 1999: 6 - 7 in Ichijo and Ranta, 2016: 22).…”

Section: Food Collective and Cultural Identity Migrationmentioning

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Digital food and foodways: How online food practices and narratives shape the Italian diaspora in London

Marino

2017

Journal of Material Culture

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The article discusses the role of online food practices and narratives in the formation of transnational identities and communities. Data has been collected in the framework of a doctoral research project undertaken by the author between 2009 and 2012 with a follow-up in 2014. The working hypothesis of this paper is that the way Italians talk about food online and offline, the importance they give to 'authentic' food, and the way they share their love for Italian food with other members of the same diaspora reveal original insights into migrants' personal and collective identities, sense of belonging to the transnational community, and processes of adjustment to a new place. Findings suggest that online culinary narratives and practices shape the Italian diaspora in unique ways, through the development of forms of virtual commensality and online mealtime socialisation on Skype, and by affecting intra and out-group relationships, thus working as elements of cultural identification and differentiation.

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Section: Food Collective and Cultural Identity Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Food Collective and Cultural Identity Migrationmentioning

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Digital food and foodways: How online food practices and narratives shape the Italian diaspora in London

Marino

2017

Journal of Material Culture

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“…Conforming to a more global grammar of ‘food nationalism’, which scholars have explored elsewhere (e.g. Caldwell, 2002; Foster, 2002; Ichijo and Ranta, 2016; Klumbytė, 2010), Baladna was being held up as a nationalist icon in a way that few other companies were.…”

Section: Food Nationalism and Myths Of Independence In An Interconnecmentioning

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Food as a weapon? The geopolitics of food and the Qatar–Gulf rift

Koch

2020

Security Dialogue

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On 4 June 2017, Qatar was suddenly put under an embargo by its regional neighbors – an effort spearheaded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who cut off most of its existing land, sea, and air traffic routes. With no domestic agriculture to speak of, Qatar’s external logistics networks are essential for maintaining its food supply. The country’s 2.6 million residents, many of whom flooded the grocery stores, were understandably concerned about their ability to secure food when news about the embargo broke. Eventually, new food supply chains were established, primarily with the assistance of partners in Iran and Turkey. The ongoing rift between Qatar and its neighbors in the Arabian Peninsula, manifested only in part by this effort to undermine the country’s material supply networks raises a number of questions about an old idea: that of food as a ‘weapon’. This article puts this concept in historical and regional perspective in the Arabian Peninsula through the lens of critical geopolitics, tracing the securitizing discourses about food security and their intertwining with narratives about territorial sovereignty, nationalism, and essentialist understandings of geography to explain the causes and effects of the food embargo in the ongoing Qatar–Gulf rift.

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“…Everyday nationalism studies are a constantly growing field, and authors have looked at issues such as bilingual road signs in Wales (Jones and Merriman, 2009), food (Ichijo and Ranta, 2016) and name change practices in Germany (Wallem, 2017). Such studies are important because, as argued by Fox and Miller-Idriss (2008: 537), mainstream nationalism studies have focused on the political, economic and cultural determinants of popular nationalism somewhat at the expense of the people.…”

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When the Nation Becomes Louder: Everyday Nationalism and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

Liinpää

2020

Sociology

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The 2014 Scottish independence referendum provided a sociologically opportune moment to study how nationalist narratives are constructed, expressed and experienced from below – or how nationalism is lived on the ground – as ‘the Scottish nation’ was widely discussed and debated. Drawing on 24 qualitative interviews, this article considers how ethnic and racialised minorities experienced and made sense of the nation on an everyday level around the time of the referendum. Consequently, this article argues that experiencing the everyday as routine, mundane or unremarkable is often a privilege; that focusing on those whose national belonging is not ‘beyond question’ is a revealing angle to take; and that during such hyper-nationalist contexts the nation merely becomes louder for ethnic and racialised minorities.

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Conclusion: Food, Nationalism and Politics

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Digital food and foodways: How online food practices and narratives shape the Italian diaspora in London

Digital food and foodways: How online food practices and narratives shape the Italian diaspora in London

Food as a weapon? The geopolitics of food and the Qatar–Gulf rift

When the Nation Becomes Louder: Everyday Nationalism and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

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