衣食住行 (clothing, food, residence, and mobility) in scholarly practices of Transnational Italian Studies

Abstract

In this article, I explain what the Chinese proverb “clothing, food, residence, mobility” entails, how I use it to broadly frame my current scholarship, what this practice means in relation to my idea of Transnational Italian Studies, the trajectory through which I came to use it, and the potential conceptual problems it may pose. I show that this adoption as an organizing principle of my work shows some decolonizing of the conventions of Italian Studies, which is one direction within Transnational Italian Studies.