Food and Faith: Material Practices in a Multicultural Suburb of West London

食物与信仰：西伦敦多元文化郊区的物质实践

• 批准号: ES/Y00891X/1
• 负责人: Laura Cuch Grases
• 金额: $ 14.78万
• 依托单位: Goldsmiths University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY00891X%2F1
• 关键词: Food; Faith; Material; Practices; Multicultural

This fellowship consolidates and advances the contributions of my PhD on food and religious diversity in Ealing, West London, involving participatory and biographical creative outputs. These demonstrate that food practices, recipes and cookbooks are key for religious communities, identities and education, where food operates as a rhythmic and affective marker of religious practices, and connects people, places and temporalities. This project builds on this study and further develops its findings and impact, through writing three academic articles and a book proposal, which support my research trajectory and vision, and contribute to relevant social debates, concerning: food, diversity and urban conviviality; embodied faith practices in everyday settings, and; visual practice-led research.Global migration and the increase of highly diverse urban settings has fuelled social research on multicultural relations and cohabitation, with much literature questioning the power relations of postcolonial ethnic food consumption. This research contributes to this debate by exploring religious spaces and celebrations as key sites for personal and embodied practices of multicultural food exchange beyond commercial settings, which foster positive conviviality. It uniquely involves seven faith communities and contributes to emerging research on how these create and adapt spaces through creative practices (Gilbert et al. 2019) - in this case, involving food.Relatedly, the post-secular turn in social sciences has brought attention to the sacred in everyday settings, where scholars have argued for the blurring of boundaries between the secular and the spiritual/numinous (or non-secular) within urban environments, bodies, practices, institutions and communities. This project contributes to this issue by engaging with both political and emotional/affective dimensions of food and faith. It explores the sensuous, embodied and affective capacities of religious food preparations and sharing; and evidences their entanglement with hierarchical and gendered norms, at the intersection of national identity and migration histories. Here, it reveals nuanced and intimate experiences of this relationship across domestic and worship spaces and, in so doing, exposes how food practices traverse thresholds, such as between self/other, public/private, sacred/non-sacred.Further, there is burgeoning interest in practice-led research in the social sciences, which calls for better understanding the affordances of creative and participatory research. Here, the project makes novel theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions by drawing on new materialism and engaging in practice with Karen Barad's call for an appreciation of how ethics, knowing, and being are intertwined. It also expands understandings of the material performativity of creative practices for accessing and producing sensorial, embodied, aesthetic and affective experiences, as well as for developing creative and collaborative relationships between participants, academics and publics.The Fellowship adopts different strategies to maximise impact and dissemination to both academic and wider audiences through publications, conferences, seminars, workshops and an exhibition. It holds the potential to influence policy by engaging with issues of urban governance and conviviality, through research funding proposals in collaboration with Professor Griera and members of ISOR. These address the need for better understanding the significance of outdoor and large-scale commensality (eating at the same table) for how communities create spaces, engage with other local communities, faiths, cultures and governing bodies, and develop a sense of belonging. This focuses on meals in ordinary public and community urban settings, which are not designed for this purpose, where food is often strategically used to introduce cultural and religious difference in 'acceptable' ways (Clot-Garrell et al., 2022).

这项奖学金巩固和推进我的博士学位在伊灵，西伦敦的食品和宗教多样性的贡献，涉及参与性和传记性的创造性产出。这些表明，饮食习惯、食谱和烹饪书是宗教社区、身份和教育的关键，在这些社区，食物是宗教习俗的节奏和情感标志，并将人、地点和时间联系起来。该项目建立在这项研究的基础上，通过撰写三篇学术文章和一本书的建议，进一步发展其研究结果和影响，支持我的研究轨迹和愿景，并有助于相关的社会辩论，涉及：食物，多样性和城市欢乐;日常环境中的体现信仰实践，以及;视觉实践主导的研究。全球移民和高度多样化的城市环境的增加推动了对多元文化关系和同居的社会研究，许多文献质疑后殖民民族食物消费的权力关系。这项研究有助于这场辩论，探索宗教空间和庆祝活动的关键网站的个人和体现的做法，多元文化的食物交换超出商业环境，促进积极的欢乐。它独特地涉及七个信仰社区，并有助于新兴的研究如何通过创造性的实践创造和适应空间（吉尔伯特等人。2019）-在这种情况下，涉及食物。相关的，社会科学的后世俗转向引起了人们对日常环境中神圣事物的关注，学者们认为，在城市环境、身体、实践、机构和社区中，世俗和精神/神圣（或非世俗）之间的界限正在模糊。该项目通过参与食物和信仰的政治和情感/情感层面来促进这一问题。它探讨了宗教食品准备和分享的感官，体现和情感能力;并证明了他们与等级和性别规范的纠缠，在国家身份和移民历史的交叉点。在这里，它揭示了这种关系在家庭和崇拜空间的微妙和亲密的经验，并在这样做，揭示了食物的做法如何跨越门槛，如自我/他人，公共/私人，神圣/非神圣之间。此外，在社会科学中，实践为主导的研究，这需要更好地理解创造性和参与性研究的启示。在这里，该项目通过借鉴新唯物主义并参与凯伦·巴拉德的实践，对道德、知识和存在如何交织在一起进行欣赏，做出了新颖的理论、方法和经验贡献。它还扩大了对创造性实践的物质表演性的理解，以获得和产生感官，体现，美学和情感体验，以及发展参与者，学者和公众之间的创造性和合作关系。该奖学金采取不同的策略，通过出版物，会议，研讨会，讲习班和展览，最大限度地提高学术和更广泛的受众的影响和传播。它拥有通过参与城市治理和欢乐的问题，通过与Griera教授和ISOR成员合作的研究资助提案来影响政策的潜力。这些解决了需要更好地理解户外和大规模的共同性（在同一张桌子上吃饭）对于社区如何创造空间，与其他当地社区，信仰，文化和管理机构互动，以及培养归属感的重要性。这侧重于普通公共和社区城市环境中的膳食，这些膳食不是为此目的而设计的，其中食物通常被战略性地用于以“可接受的”方式引入文化和宗教差异（Clot-Garrell等人，2022年）。