Sensing Palestine in Chile: Mobility, Belonging, and Power in the Comida Arabe Foodscape
Sensing Palestine in Chile: Mobility, Belonging, and Power in the Comida Arabe Foodscape
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152645
- ISBN
- 9798384019497
- DDC
- 301
- 서명/저자
- Sensing Palestine in Chile: Mobility, Belonging, and Power in the Comida Arabe Foodscape
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Northwestern University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 188 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Carrillo, Hector.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Since the early 2000s, interdisciplinary migration research has defined diasporas as sets of cultural "practices" rather than delimited spatial "entities" (Brubaker 2005). This conceptual shift within migration scholarship offers insights into the frictions and flows of global connection by examining transnational processes of migrant mobility and belonging as they occur across physical and symbolic boundaries. However, these studies have primarily taken top-down approaches, looking at how migratory trajectories and diasporic politics are received by "non-migrant" communities and asking, for instance, how successfully migrant groups have assimilated into local cultural life. My research flips the script, considering how diasporans pursue and encounter mobility, belonging, and power at the most micro level-that of their individual bodies. I argue that diaspora is not only practiced, it is sensed.I examine the comida arabe (Spanish for "Arab cuisine") foodscape of the Chilean Mahjar (Arabic for diaspora). Chile is home to nearly 500,000 migrants of Arab descent (mostly Palestinian) who moved to the region starting in the 1850s and whose descendants still substantially influence contemporary Chilean politics and culture. I draw on a year and a half of global-sensory-digital ethnography within comida arabe food spaces throughout Chile. During my time in Chile, I spent nine months volunteering at a Palestinian restaurant in Santiago while also shadowing relevant food workers in home kitchens, food carts, cooking classes, and social clubs, among other parts of the comida arabe foodscape. Additionally, I conducted 60 interviews with chefs, customers, and owners of these businesses and digital ethnography of the online platforms associated with comida arabe foodways in Chile. Throughout the study, I cooked and ate with participants and inquired about their experiences of local and global connection in the Mahjar, taking an embodied approach to sociological inquiry (Wacquant 2005).I find that migrants experience diaspora by using their senses in a multiplicity of ways: through the sights and sounds they encounter in diasporic cities, the flavors and aromas of the cuisine they prepare, and the textures and feelings of both home and away. In my dissertation, I show that to understand how Palestinian Chileans sense the Mahjar and, more generally, how migrants sense diaspora, we must look critically within and beyond the conventional five senses. In this dissertation, I first (Chapter 1) show how mobility is experienced as (a)kinesthesia as migrants simultaneously feel mobile and interconnected within the diaspora but stuck and unable to travel and physically return to their homeland. Next (Chapter 2), I argue that belonging is experienced as gastro-globalism as food producers and consumers make sense of, and map significance onto, the multiple, overlapping representations of comida arabe. Furthermore (Chapter 3), I examine how actors, spaces, and objects influence the ways diaspora is felt and processed by orienting sensibilities or exerting micro-level power over how perception is socialized.The overall contributions of this dissertation are threefold. By arguing that diaspora is a sensory process, I am shifting attention away from state-level statistical data and policy-oriented discourse on migration patterns and towards the stories of migrants' lived experiences and quotidian encounters with the migratory process. This redirection centers migration research within the voices of those who experience it firsthand, affording migrants more agency over their own narratives. Second, I offer a model for analyzing migration that moves away from methodological nationalism, transnationalism vs. assimilation debates, and spatially constrained theorizations of migrant incorporation. I argue, instead, that migrant experiences are shaped by three overlapping processes: mobility, belonging, and power. This model allows sociologists to focus on the nuances of particular migratory situations rather than worrying about classifying migrant groups and categorizing types of migration. Third, my dissertation offers a novel ethnographic approach that combines the advantages of global, sensory, and digital ethnography to strategically analyze the migratory experience. This synthetic technique pushes researchers to focus on answering their project's driving question organically without the constraints of conventional expectations. Overall, taking an embodied and transregional approach to migrant everydayness and using a situated methodological strategy, my work highlights the sensorial and affective dimensions of culinary diasporic practices and centers migrants' voices in academic migration discourse.
- 일반주제명
- Sociology
- 일반주제명
- Cultural anthropology
- 일반주제명
- Recreation
- 키워드
- Chile
- 키워드
- Diaspora
- 키워드
- Foodscape
- 키워드
- Migration
- 키워드
- Palestine
- 키워드
- Sensation
- 기타저자
- Northwestern University Sociology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aSince the early 2000s, interdisciplinary migration research has defined diasporas as sets of cultural "practices" rather than delimited spatial "entities" (Brubaker 2005). This conceptual shift within migration scholarship offers insights into the frictions and flows of global connection by examining transnational processes of migrant mobility and belonging as they occur across physical and symbolic boundaries. However, these studies have primarily taken top-down approaches, looking at how migratory trajectories and diasporic politics are received by "non-migrant" communities and asking, for instance, how successfully migrant groups have assimilated into local cultural life. My research flips the script, considering how diasporans pursue and encounter mobility, belonging, and power at the most micro level-that of their individual bodies. I argue that diaspora is not only practiced, it is sensed.I examine the comida arabe (Spanish for "Arab cuisine") foodscape of the Chilean Mahjar (Arabic for diaspora). Chile is home to nearly 500,000 migrants of Arab descent (mostly Palestinian) who moved to the region starting in the 1850s and whose descendants still substantially influence contemporary Chilean politics and culture. I draw on a year and a half of global-sensory-digital ethnography within comida arabe food spaces throughout Chile. During my time in Chile, I spent nine months volunteering at a Palestinian restaurant in Santiago while also shadowing relevant food workers in home kitchens, food carts, cooking classes, and social clubs, among other parts of the comida arabe foodscape. Additionally, I conducted 60 interviews with chefs, customers, and owners of these businesses and digital ethnography of the online platforms associated with comida arabe foodways in Chile. Throughout the study, I cooked and ate with participants and inquired about their experiences of local and global connection in the Mahjar, taking an embodied approach to sociological inquiry (Wacquant 2005).I find that migrants experience diaspora by using their senses in a multiplicity of ways: through the sights and sounds they encounter in diasporic cities, the flavors and aromas of the cuisine they prepare, and the textures and feelings of both home and away. In my dissertation, I show that to understand how Palestinian Chileans sense the Mahjar and, more generally, how migrants sense diaspora, we must look critically within and beyond the conventional five senses. In this dissertation, I first (Chapter 1) show how mobility is experienced as (a)kinesthesia as migrants simultaneously feel mobile and interconnected within the diaspora but stuck and unable to travel and physically return to their homeland. Next (Chapter 2), I argue that belonging is experienced as gastro-globalism as food producers and consumers make sense of, and map significance onto, the multiple, overlapping representations of comida arabe. Furthermore (Chapter 3), I examine how actors, spaces, and objects influence the ways diaspora is felt and processed by orienting sensibilities or exerting micro-level power over how perception is socialized.The overall contributions of this dissertation are threefold. By arguing that diaspora is a sensory process, I am shifting attention away from state-level statistical data and policy-oriented discourse on migration patterns and towards the stories of migrants' lived experiences and quotidian encounters with the migratory process. This redirection centers migration research within the voices of those who experience it firsthand, affording migrants more agency over their own narratives. Second, I offer a model for analyzing migration that moves away from methodological nationalism, transnationalism vs. assimilation debates, and spatially constrained theorizations of migrant incorporation. I argue, instead, that migrant experiences are shaped by three overlapping processes: mobility, belonging, and power. This model allows sociologists to focus on the nuances of particular migratory situations rather than worrying about classifying migrant groups and categorizing types of migration. Third, my dissertation offers a novel ethnographic approach that combines the advantages of global, sensory, and digital ethnography to strategically analyze the migratory experience. This synthetic technique pushes researchers to focus on answering their project's driving question organically without the constraints of conventional expectations. Overall, taking an embodied and transregional approach to migrant everydayness and using a situated methodological strategy, my work highlights the sensorial and affective dimensions of culinary diasporic practices and centers migrants' voices in academic migration discourse.
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