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‘Going Native?'

Settler Colonialism and Food

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Editors:
  1. Ronald Ranta

    1. Department of Politics and International Relations, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK

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  2. Alejandro Colás

    1. Department of Politics Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK

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  3. Daniel Monterescu

    1. Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Vienna, Austria

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  • Addresses the subject of settler colonial identity and settler-indigenous relations through the prism of food
  • Provides rich, original, innovative and empirical contributions from a wide range of geographic case studies
  • Takes a multi-disciplinary approach, in a global comparative framework

Part of the book series: Food and Identity in a Globalising World (FIGW)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Alejandro Colás, Daniel Monterescu, Ronald Ranta
    Pages 1-20

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 261-277
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About this book

This volume offers a comparative survey of diverse settler colonial experiences in relation to food, food culture and foodways - how the latter are constructed, maintained, revolutionised and, in some cases, dissolved. What do settler colonial foodways and food cultures look like? Are they based on an imagined colonial heritage, do they embrace indigenous repertoires or invent new hybridised foodscapes? What are the socio-economic and political dynamics of these cultural transformations? In particular, this volume focuses on three key issues: the evolution of settler colonial identities and states; their relations vis-à-vis indigenous populations; and settlers’ self-indigenisation – the process through which settlers transform themselves into the native population, at least in their own eyes. These three key issues are crucial in understanding settler-indigenous relations and the rise of settler colonial identities and states. 

Reviews

“​A fascinating and complex account of power, race and privilege, this innovative volume describes the centrality of food to global and local histories of inequality and dominance.” (Raul Matta, University of Göttingen, Germany)

“This is a clever, insightful, and original volume that interrogates the subtleties and complexities of settler colonial structures and power relations. It demonstrates the utility and importance of food as an analytical tool and food studies as a critical discipline.” (Nir Avieli, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Politics and International Relations, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK

    Ronald Ranta

  • Department of Politics Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK

    Alejandro Colás

  • Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Vienna, Austria

    Daniel Monterescu

About the editors

Ronald Ranta is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the Kingston University London, UK. As a former chef, he has written extensively on the subject of food and identity, particularly national identity.

Alejandro Colás is Professor of International Relations at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. 



Daniel Monterescu is Associate Professor of Urban Anthropology and Food Studies at Central European University, Vienna, Austria. 


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