Gastronativism : food, identity, politics

Author/Creator:

Parasecoli, Fabio, author

Publication/Creation:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Gastronativism : food, identity, politics / Fabio Parasecoli

Series Titles:

Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history
Arts and traditions of the table.

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Food industry and trade--Social aspects
Food--Political aspects
Identity politics
Nativism
Food in popular culture
Locavores

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Enter gastronativism -- Part I: Gastronativism : 1. Defending privilege: exclusionary gastronativism -- 2. Toward a better future: nonexclusionary gastronativism -- Part 2: The power of food : 3. Food and identity -- 4. Food and power -- Part 3: Borders and flows : 5. Food, nations, and nationalism -- 6. Food and diplomacy -- 7. National products in the global market -- Part 4: Between here and there : 8. Migrant food -- 9. Contagions -- Conclusion: what future?

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-222) and index.

Summary:

Parasecoli coins and explains the concept of "gastronativism" to help us better understand the ways food has become a powerful ideological tool in political debates, protests, and negotiations. The overarching goal is to demonstrate what gastronativism is, along with the social and political work gastronativism does by means of a wide array of examples from all over the world, with an emphasis on developments during the last decade. Parasecoli describes how globalization and neoliberalism together drive the rise of gastronativism. He also points out that debates around food are rarely about food. The central role of food in everyday life, and its role in determining collective identities, help link it to a much deeper and more complex socio-economic dynamics. How is food used for political purposes? Food offers a unique perspective, because it connects very personal experiences to global systems. Because it is so intimate and emotionally powerful, food is the perfect prism through which to view nativism. Especially after the 2008 financial crisis, food has been used by those who feel they have been excluded or victimized by neoliberal globalization to express fears and resentment generated by changes wrought by globalization. As a reaction, there is among some a desire to go back to one's own food and culinary roots to anchor their identity. Hence gastronativism. This book poses questions about how neoliberal policies set the stage for a range of food movements to embrace local ingredients and encourage heritage recipes. This phenomenon can express itself in local and regional foods, agro-biodiversity, and artisanal know-how. It can support movements for equality, justice, and resistance against transnational corporations. It can also support groups that give local communities choices about what they produce, what they import, and what they consume. Other forms of gastronativism, however, are expressions of nationalist, supremacist, and xenophobic projects that want to maintain or increase inequalities, rendering immigrants, ethnic minorities, and underprivileged people as scapegoats to make up for fears of loss of social prestige, status, and economic well-being. Parasecoli explores both the exclusionary and the non-exclusionary forms of this global trend. --

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xvii, 226 pages ; 23 cm.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937687086002486

ISBN:

9780231202060
0231202067
9780231202077
0231202075

OCLC Number:

1285873735

Barcode:

010003507731