Foodways and Foodwashing

Israeli Cookbooks and the Politics of Culinary Zionism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2236601
AutoresIlan Zvi Baron (0000-0002-9808-2109, Durham University, autor correspondente), Galia Press-Barnathan, Galia Press‐barnathan (0000-0003-3909-4641, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume15
Fascículo3
Páginas338-358
Data de publicação2021-07-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ips/olab007
OpenAlexW3136725417
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas61

The paper explores the political narratives produced in English-language Israeli cookbooks. We examine an understudied, yet central component of everyday international relations, everyday nationalism, and identity contestations as practiced through gastronomy, and highlight the dilemma between the different political uses of popular culture in the context of conflict resolution and resistance. Our argument identifies different narratives represented in what we term Culinary Zionism. One narrative is explicitly political, discusses Israeli cuisine as a foodway, and contributes to creating a space of, and a path for, coexistence and recognition of the Other. A second narrative is found in tourist-orientated cookbooks that offer a supposedly apolitical story of culinary tours in Israel. We problematize the political and normative implications of these narratives by exploring the potential role of these books to open space for dialogue and to increase the familiarity and interest of foreign audiences of Israel and the conflict. We contrast this possibility with their potential to what we term foodwashing, namely the process of using food to symbolically wash over violence and injustices (the violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this case

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology) · Foodways · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Nationalism · Normative · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Zionism · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philippine History and Culture