America Eats

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Bégin
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Political Project ◽  
Food Writing

This chapter focuses on the America Eats project and delves into why and how the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) began searching for America's regional cuisines. The narrative explores how, in New Deal food writing, food became a canvas for a sensory, emotional, felt manifestation of national identity. The chapter also examines the limits of this political project as it captures editors and local workers deliberating over which and whose regional foods would be deemed worthy of integration into the American culinary narrative. The analysis takes into account the prescriptive but also unstable and inconclusive nature of America Eats as the understanding of what American food was and who American eaters were evolved over the course of the project. In looking for the taste of the nation, the FWP often stumbled upon regional ethnic tastes that defied the aims of the project.

Introduction: Configuring the Green New Deal

2021 ◽  
pp. 103530462110176
Author(s):  
Anna Sturman ◽  
Natasha Heenan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
Political Project ◽  
The Right

We introduce a themed collection of articles on approaches to configuring a Green New Deal as a response to the current capitalist crisis marked by ecological breakdown, economic stagnation and growing inequality. The Green New Deal is a contested political project, with pro-market, right-wing nationalist, Keynesian, democratic socialist and ecosocialist variants. Critiques of the Green New Deal include pragmatic queries as the feasibility of implementation, and theoretical challenges from the right regarding reliance on state forms and from the left regarding efforts to ameliorate capitalism. They also include concerns about technocratic bias and complaints about lack of meaningful consultation with Indigenous peoples on proposals for large-scale shifts in land use. Debates over the ideological orientation, political strategy and implementation of the Green New Deal must now account for the economic and employment impacts of COVID. JEL Codes: Q43, Q54, Q56, Q58

National identity and Europeanization in post-communist Romania. The meaning of citizenship in Sibiu: European Capital of Culture 2007

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragoş Dragoman
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
European Cities ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
Political Project

The structure of the requirements for citizenship in a Romanian city differs by and large from the structure of the same requirements in other European cities. The peculiarity lies in the lack of distinctiveness between the origin, the ethnic aspect and the civic aspect of citizenship and also in the emphasis on the language requirements for citizenship. The explanations could be traced back to the previous century and to the cultural and political project of state and nation-building. But the importance assigned to the national identity and national sovereignty issues in Romania may affect the European integration by hindering the feelings of European belonging and solidarity.

How Taste Is Made

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Bégin
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
First Century ◽  
Environmental Equity ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Food Writing

This concluding chapter argues that the New Deal food writing does not provide lessons on how to eat better, nor a cause to dismiss it as a bigoted or failed nation-building attempt. Rather, it offers a reminder that contemporary anxieties about the sensory, political, environmental, social, and moral consequences of the global industrial food system, as well as the drive toward the celebration of local traditions and knowledge, are not a late-twentieth and early-twenty-first-century affair but part of a longer historical trend. New Deal food writing offers tools to better understand the challenges of establishing sustainable, pleasurable, and equitable food systems. This is not to disparage efforts at changing industrial foodways, but to emphasize how social and sensory histories of food can create spaces for debates about social, cultural, and environmental equity challenges.

Sensing Food in the New Deal Era

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Bégin
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Sensory History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Depression ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
Food Writing

This introductory chapter examines taste as a symbolic, cultural, affective, and as economic currency always in circulation, and that, once mobilized, allows eaters to identify and differentiate themselves along race, class, gender, and ethnic lines. The concept of sensory economies is a plural one and allows exploring sensory experiences of food as the result of social, cultural, and financial exchanges always remade. The chapter looks at the cultural, social, and sensory history of New Deal food writing: the multisensory culinary material produced by employees of the Federal Writers's Project (FWP). Throughout, workers produced comforting snapshot pictures aimed at providing cultural confidence to a country in the midst of one of the worst economic depression of its history and giving legitimacy to the new political, social, and economic order of the liberal New Deal state.

Australian foreign policy and the vernacular of national belonging

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Linnane
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Culture War ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Policy Language ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Political Project

Across the 1990s, a ‘culture war’ raged between Australian Prime Ministers Keating and Howard. At its crux, their discursive battles reflected divergent and competing conceptions of Australian nationhood, and Australia’s place in the world. For Keating, Australia’s future and interests resided in a comprehensive engagement with Asia. For Howard, Australia’s identity was situated firmly within the Anglo-sphere. This chapter examines how such articulations of national identity related to foreign policy during the Keating and Howard governments. Through an exploration of foreign policy language, it will illuminate the efforts made by Australian governments to link foreign policy objectives with particular conceptions of Australian national identity. Specifically, this chapter will highlight the deliberate attempts by Keating and then by Howard to fuse elements of their foreign and domestic agendas in pursuit of a vision that took in very particular and radically different conceptions of Australian identity. It aims to pose important questions about what Australian foreign policy language might reveal about contested notions of national identity, and following that, how foreign policy can be understood as part of a political project to define what it means to be Australian. 

scholarly journals Unity-in-Diversity?: Regional Identity-building in Southeast Asia

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Jönsson
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
Tentative Conclusion ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Political Project

The aim of this paper is to discuss the issue of regional integration and regional identity-building in Southeast Asia. The idea is to problematise the quest for a regional identity by relating the efforts of integration to the issues of multi-ethnicity, national identity-building and multicultural societies in times of globalisation. The article consists of three broad themes intending to capture the complexity of regional identity-building: regionalism and regional cooperation; tensions by diversity; and dilemmas of regional identity-building in multi-ethnic societies illustrated by Laos and Burma/ Myanmar. This analysis is explorative in character and attempts to combine different bodies of literature in order to better understand some of the contradictory processes related to regional identity-building in Southeast Asia. A tentative conclusion is that without an accommodating, inclusive and pluralistic society, the creation of a common regional identity will remain an elitist political project.

Afterword: 2014 and after: The Changing Anatomy of Civil Society and the Media in Scotland

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-114
Author(s):  
David McCrone
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Project

The Scottish press and media have been credited with keeping alive and amplifying Scottish national identity, and with it, the Scottish Home Rule project. And yet, the Scottish press has undergone a massive decline in sales and readership in the last fifty years. This brief commentary addresses the apparent anomaly that the press, the ostensible carriers of the Scottish political project, are no longer vital to its development in the 21st century.

A “Well-Filled Melting Pot”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camille Bégin
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Ethnic Food ◽  
Food Writing

This chapter provides an ethnographic reading of New Deal food writing to understand the centrality of ethnic taste in 1930s sensory economies. Federal Writers' Project workers described ethnic food using well-known keywords such as “the melting pot” or “cosmopolitanism”—given the topic at hand and the pressing need to produce material, these were tempting tropes. Still, New Deal food writing coming from midwestern and western rural and industrial areas updated the paradigmatic metaphors and described a sensory cosmopolitanism where culinary encounters and working-class solidarities combined to create a cultural pluralist version of the melting pot. The chapter focuses on nodes of sensory trade such as workplaces, grocery stores, and ethnic restaurants, from foreign-themed nightclubs to working-class establishments and multiethnic diners.

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