Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and the Politics of Culinary Zionism

IF 3.5 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-03-22 DOI:10.1093/IPS/OLAB007

I. Baron, Galia Press-Barnathan

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Abstract

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).

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Foodways和Foodwashing：以色列食谱与犹太复国主义烹饪政治

本文探讨了以色列英语烹饪书中的政治叙事。我们研究了日常国际关系、日常民族主义和通过美食实践的身份争论的一个未被充分研究的核心组成部分，并强调了在解决冲突和抵抗的背景下，流行文化的不同政治用途之间的困境。我们的论点确定了不同的叙述，我们称之为烹饪犹太复国主义。一种叙事是明确的政治，将以色列美食作为一种食物方式进行讨论，并为共存和承认他者创造空间和道路。第二种叙述是在以游客为导向的烹饪书中发现的，这些书提供了一个据称与政治无关的以色列烹饪之旅的故事。我们通过探索这些书在打开对话空间和增加外国读者对以色列和冲突的熟悉度和兴趣方面的潜在作用，对这些叙述的政治和规范含义提出了问题。我们将这种可能性与他们的潜力与我们所说的食物清洗进行对比，即用食物象征性地清洗暴力和不公正的过程(在这种情况下，以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突的暴力)。

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