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Food Cultures (2022)
Book Chapter
Klein, J. A., Berlin, S., Wang, C. Y., & Thomason, E. (2022). Food Cultures. In S. Kehoe, & G. Wielander (Eds.), Cultural China 2021: The Contemporary China Centre Review (41-55). University of Westminster Press. https://doi.org/10.16997/book69.d

The four pieces in this chapter all revolve around the changing relationship to basic food stuff traditional associated with backwardness and deprivation in the context of a search for the “authentic” by urban middle classes. Jakob Klein deals with t... Read More about Food Cultures.

Mobility, marriage decline, and the ceremonial economy: socio-cultural factors influencing farming in South Africa and implications for land reform (2022)
Journal Article
Hornby, D., & Hull, E. (2023). Mobility, marriage decline, and the ceremonial economy: socio-cultural factors influencing farming in South Africa and implications for land reform. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(7), 2539-2559. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2101098

This article reviews the literature on the social dynamics influencing small-scale agriculture in South Africa. These include three primary factors: the trans-local character of livelihoods; the role of social hierarchies of gender, age and marital s... Read More about Mobility, marriage decline, and the ceremonial economy: socio-cultural factors influencing farming in South Africa and implications for land reform.

The Decline of the Labor Party in Israel (2022)
Journal Article
Shindler, C. (2022). The Decline of the Labor Party in Israel. Bustan : Middle East book review, 13(1), 55-80. https://doi.org/10.5325/bustan.13.1.0055

The decline of the Labor Party is one of the great mysteries of Israeli politics. From achieving forty-seven seats in the 1981 election, it attained a mere seven seats in the March 2021 election. From being the leading party in the electoral firmamen... Read More about The Decline of the Labor Party in Israel.

Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Stewart, S., & Sanders, C. (2023). Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221100359

The UK government’s Everyone In scheme, announced in March 2020, required local authorities to temporarily house all homeless individuals in their area regardless of immigration status. In providing support through safe and secure accommodation, Ever... Read More about Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From culinary modernism to culinary cosmopolitanism: the changing topography of Beijing’s transnational foodscape (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, C. (2023). From culinary modernism to culinary cosmopolitanism: the changing topography of Beijing’s transnational foodscape. Food, Culture & Society, 26(3), 775-792. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2046990

In the early 1990s, foreign foods were reintroduced into the everyday life of ordinary people in Beijing. As the city ascends to the top on the global hierarchy of urban places, its transnational food practices have evolved drastically. Proposing “co... Read More about From culinary modernism to culinary cosmopolitanism: the changing topography of Beijing’s transnational foodscape.

Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses (2022)
Journal Article
Graf, K. (2022). Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(2), 577-594. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13708

In this article, I explore how cooking knowledge is constituted and show that a sense of taste is central to it. Drawing on the thick description of domestic couscous preparation in Marrakech, Morocco, I treat taste both as a multisensory form of kno... Read More about Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses.