Food, National Identity and Nationalism From Everyday to Global Politics

Building and expanding on the first edition, the second edition of Food, National Identity and Nationalism continues to explore a much-neglected area study: the relationship between food and nationalism. With a preface written by Michaela DeSoucey and using a wide range of case studies, it demonstrates that food and nationalism is an important area to study, and that the food-nationalism axis provides a useful prism through which to explore and analyse the world around us, from the everyday to the global, and the ways in which it affects us. The second edition includes a number of new case studies, including the demise and resurrection of pie as a ‘national dish’ in post-Brexit Britain; the use of netnography; the role of diasporas in maintaining and reinventing national food; the gastrodiplomatic potential of the New Nordic Cuisine; the potential of veganism to transcend nationalism; and the relationship between gastronationalism and populism.

Introduction: Food, nationalism and national identity.- Part I: Unofficial/bottom-up: Nationalism and national identity through food away from the state.- Chapter 1 Everyday creation of the nation.- Chapter 2 When groups participate in defining the nation.- Chapter 3 Consuming nations: the construction of national identities in the food industry.- Part II: Official/top-down: The nation-state, food and nationalism.- Chapter 4 Food and diet in ‘official’ nationalism.- Chapter 5 National food in the International Context I: Gastrodiplomacy.- Chapter 6 National food in the International Context II: Gastronationalism and Populism.- Part III: Food and nationalism/national identity at the global level.- Chapter 7 Norms, ethics, food and nationalism.- Chapter 8 International organisations, food and nationalism.- Conclusion: From Everyday to Global Politics.