Food as affirmative biopolitics at the border

Liminality, eating practices, and migration in the Mediterranean

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3919028
AutoresYannis Hamilakis (0000-0002-8392-9450, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume53
Fascículo3
Páginas531-546
Data de publicação2021-05-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2021.2021980
OpenAlexW4210279664
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas23

Based on long term archaeological ethnography on the border island of Lesvos situated on Europe's margins, this article explores the regimes of eating and the role of food practices in the refugee camp/processing centre of Moria. Starting from the double liminality of eating and border-crossing, it outlines and juxtaposes two regimes of corporeal life. The first is the biopolitical arena of official food provision as produced by the border apparatus and the logic of humanitarian governmentality. This regulates border-crosser's time and daily routines and renders them 'people of concern', tress-passers or victimized individuals with no agency. The second is the affective, trans-corporeal, multi-sensorial field of cooking, eating, making kin, making community. It is produced through the agency of border-crossers themselves, when they take charge of their own eating. In doing so, they constitute eating in these liminal conditions as affirmative biopolitics, as the affirmative politics of life and hope

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Biopower · Ethnography · Governmentality · Liminality · Political science · Politics · Shame · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law