Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley
Biographic Data
| ID | 379644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Bascuñan-Wiley |
| SIGNATURE | BASCUÑAN-WILEY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3278-452X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Eating with your eyes
There has been a recent surge in the sharing of food practices across the virtual table – such as cooking and recipe videos on Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms – particularly among diasporic communities who are physically and symbolically separated from homeland foodways. How is the migrant culinary sensorium translated for digital contexts that seemingly contradict the local, economically disinterested, and embodied qualities of co-present…
Kinesthetic community
Binding Identity
Foodways have long been at the heart of the long-distance and long-term cultural connection that the Palestinian diaspora in Chile has maintained with the Palestinian homeland and Palestinian identity.Recent years have seen the publication of several new Chilean Palestinian cookbooks that have translated embodied knowledge from diasporic home kitchens into globally accessible written recipes.In this article, we ask why have these cookbooks emerge…
Making and breaking bread
Food tour television has long allowed Americans to virtually visit domestic and global locations, vicariously tasting “authentic” and “exotic” foods from the comfort of their couches and under the guidance of intrepid hosts. Analyzing the history and evolution of the food tour genre offers a gauge of popular discourse surrounding the construction of taste and the formation of national cuisines. Two recent shows within this genre, Taste the Nation…
Convivial Quarantines
Sociology's focus on sociality and co-presence has long oriented studies of commensality-the social dimension of eating together. This literature commonly prioritizes face-to-face interactions and takes physical proximity for granted. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 largely halted in-person gatherings and altered everyday foodways. Consequently, many people turned to digital commensality, cooking and eating together through video…
Migration and the senses
Recent scholarship in the sociological subfields of culture and immigration offers several promising directions for studying how people experience the world in embodied ways and move through and across boundaries. Yet, the lack of overlap between fields has left numerous theoretical angles unexplored. In this review, I consider the limited existing scholarship at the intersection of migration and the senses. I discuss literature on the role of se…
Sumud and Food
For Palestinians in diaspora, memory establishes and validates national consciousness and embodies the ongoing struggles for Palestinian legitimacy on a global scale. Within this community, cuisine and the methods of its production are an essential medium for the retention of cultural knowledge. This paper examines the role of food in the experience of Palestinian collective memory in the Chilean diaspora through sensory ethnography of restaurant…
Migration and the senses
Recent scholarship in the sociological subfields of culture and immigration offers several promising directions for studying how people experience the world in embodied ways and move through and across boundaries. Yet, the lack of overlap between fields has left numerous theoretical angles unexplored. In this review, I consider the limited existing scholarship at the intersection of migration and the senses. I discuss literature on the role of se…
Kinesthetic community
Convivial Quarantines
Sociology's focus on sociality and co-presence has long oriented studies of commensality-the social dimension of eating together. This literature commonly prioritizes face-to-face interactions and takes physical proximity for granted. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 largely halted in-person gatherings and altered everyday foodways. Consequently, many people turned to digital commensality, cooking and eating together through video…
Sumud and Food
For Palestinians in diaspora, memory establishes and validates national consciousness and embodies the ongoing struggles for Palestinian legitimacy on a global scale. Within this community, cuisine and the methods of its production are an essential medium for the retention of cultural knowledge. This paper examines the role of food in the experience of Palestinian collective memory in the Chilean diaspora through sensory ethnography of restaurant…
Sumud and Food
For Palestinians in diaspora, memory establishes and validates national consciousness and embodies the ongoing struggles for Palestinian legitimacy on a global scale. Within this community, cuisine and the methods of its production are an essential medium for the retention of cultural knowledge. This paper examines the role of food in the experience of Palestinian collective memory in the Chilean diaspora through sensory ethnography of restaurant…
Migration and the senses
Recent scholarship in the sociological subfields of culture and immigration offers several promising directions for studying how people experience the world in embodied ways and move through and across boundaries. Yet, the lack of overlap between fields has left numerous theoretical angles unexplored. In this review, I consider the limited existing scholarship at the intersection of migration and the senses. I discuss literature on the role of se…
Convivial Quarantines
Sociology's focus on sociality and co-presence has long oriented studies of commensality-the social dimension of eating together. This literature commonly prioritizes face-to-face interactions and takes physical proximity for granted. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 largely halted in-person gatherings and altered everyday foodways. Consequently, many people turned to digital commensality, cooking and eating together through video…
Making and breaking bread
Food tour television has long allowed Americans to virtually visit domestic and global locations, vicariously tasting “authentic” and “exotic” foods from the comfort of their couches and under the guidance of intrepid hosts. Analyzing the history and evolution of the food tour genre offers a gauge of popular discourse surrounding the construction of taste and the formation of national cuisines. Two recent shows within this genre, Taste the Nation…
Binding Identity
Foodways have long been at the heart of the long-distance and long-term cultural connection that the Palestinian diaspora in Chile has maintained with the Palestinian homeland and Palestinian identity.Recent years have seen the publication of several new Chilean Palestinian cookbooks that have translated embodied knowledge from diasporic home kitchens into globally accessible written recipes.In this article, we ask why have these cookbooks emerge…
Kinesthetic community
Eating with your eyes
There has been a recent surge in the sharing of food practices across the virtual table – such as cooking and recipe videos on Instagram, TikTok, and other platforms – particularly among diasporic communities who are physically and symbolically separated from homeland foodways. How is the migrant culinary sensorium translated for digital contexts that seemingly contradict the local, economically disinterested, and embodied qualities of co-present…
Culinary Culture and Tourism (6 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (2 works) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (2 works) · Embodied cognition (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)