Eat, Resist, Become Food Politics Across Bodies and Borders

Eat, Resist, Become: Food Politics Across Bodies and Borders is not an ordinary book about food. It reveals the table as more than a place of nourishment: it is a stage where power, identity, belief, and resistance unfold. From religious rituals to modern consumer culture, from the body to the politics of borders, food becomes a language through which desire, discipline, memory, and belonging are expressed. Drawing on thinkers such as Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, and engaging with contemporary cultural theory, this volume uncovers the hidden politics embedded in everyday culinary practices.
At times a piece of bread, at times a ritual meal or a forbidden food, every bite carries meaning. Bringing together perspectives from gastronomy studies, sociology, anthropology, religious studies, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary collection invites readers to reconsider a simple yet profound question: Is food ever just food?
After reading this book, you will never look at the table in the same way again.