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

这一奖学金巩固和推进了我在伦敦西部伊灵的食品和宗教多样性博士学位方面的贡献，涉及参与性和传记性创造性成果。这些表明，饮食习惯、食谱和食谱是宗教社区、身份和教育的关键，在宗教社区中，食物是宗教习俗的有节奏和情感的标志，并将人、地点和时间联系在一起。该项目以这项研究为基础，通过撰写三篇学术文章和一本书的提案来进一步发展其研究结果和影响，这些文章支持我的研究轨迹和愿景，并为相关的社会辩论做出贡献，涉及：食物、多样性和城市欢乐；在日常环境中体现信仰实践，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关于多元文化关系和同居的社会研究，许多文献质疑殖民后种族食物消费的权力关系。这项研究通过探索宗教空间和庆祝活动作为个人和商业环境以外的多文化食物交流的具体实践的关键场所，促进了这场辩论，这促进了积极的欢乐。它独特地涉及七个信仰社区，并有助于关于这些社区如何通过创造性实践创造和适应空间的新兴研究(Gilbert等人。(2019)--在这种情况下，涉及食物。与之相关的是，社会科学的后世俗转向引起了人们对日常环境中神圣的关注，学者们主张模糊城市环境、机构、习俗、机构和社区内世俗和精神/神明(或非世俗)之间的界限。该项目通过涉及食物和信仰的政治和情感/情感层面，对这一问题作出了贡献。它探讨了宗教食物准备和分享的感官、体现和情感能力；并在民族认同和迁徙历史的交汇处证明了它们与等级和性别规范的纠缠。在这里，它揭示了家庭和礼拜空间这种关系的微妙和亲密的经历，并在这样做的过程中，暴露了饮食实践如何跨越门槛，例如自我/他人、公共/私人、神圣/非神圣之间。此外，社会科学中以实践为导向的研究日益增长的兴趣，这要求更好地理解创造性和参与性研究的负担。在这里，该项目通过借鉴新的唯物主义并参与实践，做出了新颖的理论、方法和经验贡献，卡伦·巴拉德呼吁欣赏伦理、知识和存在是如何相互交织在一起的。它还扩大了对创造性实践的物质表现性的理解，以获取和产生感觉、体现、审美和情感体验，以及发展参与者、学者和公众之间的创造性和合作关系。该研究金采用不同的战略，通过出版物、会议、研讨会、工作坊和展览，最大限度地影响和传播给学术和更广泛的受众。它有可能通过与格里拉教授和ISOR成员合作提出研究资助建议，参与城市治理和欢乐问题，从而影响政策。这些文件涉及需要更好地理解户外和大规模共处(在同一张桌子上就餐)对于社区如何创造空间、与其他当地社区、信仰、文化和理事机构互动以及培养归属感的重要性。它侧重于普通公共和社区城市环境中的用餐，这不是为此目的而设计的，在这些环境中，食物通常被战略性地用来以“可接受的”方式引入文化和宗教差异(Clot-Garrell等人，2022年)。

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).