Routledge Handbook of Food and Cultural Heritage
Michael A Di Giovine editor Raul Matta editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:29th Sep '25
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The Routledge Handbook of Food and Cultural Heritage explores the many varied intersections of food and cultural heritage from a robust, transdisciplinary perspective.
Innovative in its approach, this cutting-edge Handbook thinks beyond traditional boundaries to present unique perspectives on the myriad ways in which food and cultural heritage are entangled in theory and practice. Both are growing industries; both are deeply rooted in families, cultures, and societies; both generate controversy and are deployed for political and economic activism. They also both have intellectual lives of their own, and are centers of interdisciplinary fields themselves—yet they also intersect in interesting and, until this book, under-theorized ways. After a comprehensive introduction that presents and challenges the state-of-the-art in the disciplines of critical food and critical heritage studies, the Handbook’s chapters are divided into six themes common to both fields: Ontologies and epistemologies of food and cultural heritage; material culture; identity, placemaking and belonging; politics and regulation; tourism development and heritage management; and contemporary issues and emerging approaches. To give representation of voices not usually heard in the scholarly tradition, special interviews with food-and-heritage practitioners complement the comprehensive chapters, adding further depth to the volume through their own lived experiences.
With contributions from nearly 50 internationally recognized scholars, social scientists, dieticians, practitioners, and activists, this book is essential reading to scholars, students, researchers, industry professionals, and practitioners looking to understand the complex and compelling ways in which food, foodways, and cultural heritage overlap and impact each other, providing venues for collaborations.
'In joining their expertise and their networks, Di Giovine and Matta have succeeded in assembling an impressive, global set of contributors. The deep past of food production and consumption, material and immaterial alike, reconfirms that food is good to think with, particularly for understanding the mushrooming of heritage practices in realms ranging from identity and belonging to regulation and policy. ‘
Regina F. Bendix, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
'This fascinating and comprehensive volume explores myriad ways that food and cultural heritage intertwine in constructing meaning, place, and power. Contributors from across the social sciences show the explanatory potential of culinary heritage by examining its role in empirical case studies of migration, nation-building, terroir, tourism, restaurant and domestic cooking, museums, and activism.’
Carole Counihan,co-editor of Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability
'This groundbreaking handbook offers a rich, multi-dimensional exploration of how food, in both its everyday and institutionalized forms, profoundly influences our identities, rooting us in particular places and histories.'
Ronda L. Brulotte, University of New Mexico
'Tackling the social, economic, legal, and cultural Implications of food-as heritage, this volume offers a nuanced, multidisciplinary perspective on how caring about and transmitting foodways along with agropastoral and agricultural traditions is a crucial concern in today’s social movements and policy debates globally.’
Chiara Bortolotto, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
'Organized around productive themes in critical heritage studies and food studies, this collection authored by more than 50 scholars worldwide, will become a text to structure our thinking and argue with. It is a robust collection of empirically rich and theoretically generative essays that are good to think with.'
Krishnendu Ray, Director of the Doctoral Program in Food Studies at NYU
ISBN: 9781032026558
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1030g
448 pages