Food, National Identity and Nationalism

Ichijo, Atsuko; Ranta, Ronald

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“…Here the puzzlement is not resolved, but continues around an escalating scepticism which seems unable to find any acceptable answer. Food – usually a banal marker of national identity (Ichijo & Ranta, ) – is consciously activated to question the Italianness of a body that does not look Italian and through which, therefore, lasagne cannot go down easily. The banality of the nation works to institute an ontological incompatibility between somatic strangeness and the familiarity of nationally inflected everyday habits of consumption.…”

Section: After Surprise What?mentioning

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The face of the nation: Troubling the sameness–strangeness divide in the age of migration

Antonsich

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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Over the last two decades, banal and everyday nationalism have been the main theoretical and methodological approaches for studying how nations are reproduced “from below”. The present article advances this literature by paying close attention to racially differentiated subjects and, more precisely, subjects who are perceived to look different from, but sound like, the national majority group. Building on the feminist attention to the corporeal, I argue that face‐to‐face encounters with the simultaneous embodiment of (somatic) strangeness and (linguistic) sameness generate a sense of surprise which interrupts the reproduction of the nation. This, in turn, allows for the “troubling” of the very identity category (nation) which both banal and everyday nationalism avoid interrogating directly. I support and illustrate this argument by focusing on the case of the children of migrants born and raised in Italy and their personal experiences in mundane settings. The article discusses the implications of this short circuit in the banal and everyday processes of national reproduction in terms of potential openings of the nation to more inclusive forms.

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Section: After Surprise What?mentioning

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The face of the nation: Troubling the sameness–strangeness divide in the age of migration

Antonsich

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Es interesante notar junto con otros académicos que en los estudios sobre la comida y la alimentación -cuyo número, por cierto, no deja de crecer -el restaurante ha recibido hasta el momento una atención marginal (Beriss, Sutton, 2007;Hassoun, 2014). Las ciencias sociales han fijado su atención en temas como la globalización de la comida y las cocinas (Bestor, 2004;Pilcher, 2012), las cocinas nacionales y el nacionalismo culinario (DeSoucey, 2010;Ferguson, 2010;Matta, 2014;Ichijo, Ranta, 2016), los procesos de identificación, desterritorialización y territorialización de prácticas y productos alimentarios (Trubek, 2008;May, Sidali, Spiller, Tschofen, 2017;Parasecoli, 2017), el turismo gastronómico (Long, 2004;Timothy, 2015;Medina, Leal, Vázquez-Medina, 2018) y, tema de este número especial, el patrimonio alimentario (Tibère, Bessière, 2011;Brulotte, Di Giovine, 2014;Bak-Geller, Matta, Suremain, en prensa). El interés en todos estos temas es importante, justificado y necesario pues la irrupción de la "alimentación" en las arenas política y cultural a nivel global es relativamente reciente y bastante vigorosa.…”

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¿Patrimonios a la carta? Una aproximación a las cocinas patrimoniales desde cuatro restaurantes en Lima

Matta

Suremain

2019

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“…In short, food occupies an important place in our everyday lives. Its presence can be found in the nutritional, social, economic, and political arenas but also in our construction of personal and collective identities (Ichijo and Ranta 2016).…”

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Preserving Dignity in the Face of Hunger

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Humanity & Society

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Hunger in the United States has become commonplace. Food pantries are now regularly used by millions of people. Once thought to be used by the destitute, today they are frequented by families, students, the elderly people who hold full-time jobs, and people who thought they would never have to seek assistance to have enough to eat. Viewing food pantries as a major foodways resource, this study focuses on how a New England food pantry seeks to give not just food but also integrity, respect, and hope. It employed a client satisfaction survey as part of an evaluation of the effectiveness of their food pantry and used the data for organizational transformation. This study shows how organizations can destigmatize the requesting food process and provide services in a humane way that treats hungry people as neighbors and friends, not burdens and failures.

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Food, National Identity and Nationalism

Cited by 95 publications

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The face of the nation: Troubling the sameness–strangeness divide in the age of migration

The face of the nation: Troubling the sameness–strangeness divide in the age of migration

¿Patrimonios a la carta? Una aproximación a las cocinas patrimoniales desde cuatro restaurantes en Lima

Preserving Dignity in the Face of Hunger

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