Books by Rebecca Ingram
Los estudios críticos culturales gastronómicos o food studies arrancaron en países angloparlantes... more Los estudios críticos culturales gastronómicos o food studies arrancaron en países angloparlantes en los años 70 del siglo pasado inspirados en la escuela de Frankfurt. En la actualidad los food studies se consideran una disciplina académica y un movimiento para entender la sociedad desde un campo interdisciplinar en el que se incluyen los estudios de las mujeres y el género, la identidad y la comunicación. Food Studies en español.
Investigación actual en gastronomía y comunicación pretende mostrar las posibilidades de esta disciplina entre otros investigadores y entre el alumnado de grado y posgrado universitario a través de los textos metodológicos de las personas que trabajan actualmente sobre España tanto en instituciones nacionales como internacionales.
The term “gastrocracy” refers to the appropriation of discourses and practices related to the sou... more The term “gastrocracy” refers to the appropriation of discourses and practices related to the sourcing, preparation, distribution, and consumption of food for political purposes. The intersections of gastronomy and governance, dating in Spain to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, have become highly visible over the past decade, when political debates around nationalism in its different forms have taken the guise of discussions about regional and local cuisines. Concomitant with the rise of the “slow food” movement and following UNESCO’s addition in 2011 of “Gastronomic Meal of the French” to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, public and private associations all around Spain have been established with the goal of achieving recognition by UNESCO for Spanish, Catalan, and other national cuisines. In 2016, Gastro Marca España—an association and a web portal—was launched to raise the profile of food in Spain’s national brand.
Eliciting wide public participation, coopted for political purposes, regarded as a factor of economic development on any scale, and integrated into every so-called banal nationalism, the production, distribution, and consumption of food are highly relevant for historical analysis. Seeking to encourage a broader discussion about Peninsular gastrocracies, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from different sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific who have spearheaded research on gastronomy and governance in Spain.
Vanderbilt University Press, 2022
We are living in a moment in which famous chefs, Michelin stars, culinary techniques, and gastron... more We are living in a moment in which famous chefs, Michelin stars, culinary techniques, and gastronomical accolades attract moneyed tourists to Spain from all over the world. This has prompted the Spanish government to declare its cuisine as part of Spanish patrimony. Even with this widespread global attention, we know little about how Spanish cooking became a litmus test for demonstrating Spain's modernity and, relatedly, the roles ascribed to the modern Spanish women responsible for daily cooking.
Efforts to articulate a new, modern Spain infiltrated writing in multiple genres and media. Women's Work offers a sharp reading of diverse sources, placed in their historical context, that yields a better understanding of the roles of food within an inherently uneven modernization process. Further, author Rebecca Ingram's perceptive critique reveals the paradoxical messages women have navigated, even in texts about a daily practice that shaped their domestic and work lives. Women's Work posits that this is significant because of the degree to which domestic activities, including cooking, occupied women's daily lives, even while issues like their fitness as citizens and participation in the public sphere were hotly debated. At the same time, progressive intellectuals from diverse backgrounds began to invoke Spanish cooking and eating as one measure of Spanish modernity.
Women's Work shows how culinary writing engaged these debates and reached women at the site of much of their daily labor—the kitchen—and, in this way, shaped their thinking about their roles in modernizing Spain.
Papers by Rebecca Ingram
MVM: Cuaderno de Estudios Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, 2023
Este artículo detalla y analiza el papel que ha tenido Manuel Vázquez Montalbán en rescatar el sa... more Este artículo detalla y analiza el papel que ha tenido Manuel Vázquez Montalbán en rescatar el saber y el patrimonio culinario de Josep Rondissoni (1890–1968), chef de renombre de los años 20 y 30 y profesor del Institut de Cultura i Biblioteca Popular de la Dona. La obra de Rondissoni es fundacional para una identidad gastro-política específicamente catalana y parte del paisaje gastronómico, o foodscape, que la escritura de Vázquez Montalbán ayuda a crear para Barcelona. Sin embargo, como se verá, su representación del célebre chef mediático y profesor de miles de mujeres barcelonesas tiene consecuencias con respecto a cómo las dinámicas de género y clase social se hacen normativas en el foodscape que su escritura establece. En este caso, las figuras marginadas son las propias mujeres cuyo trabajo culinario ha facilitado la recuperación de este patrimonio culinario importante.
RAE-IC Revista De La Asociación Española De Investigación De La Comunicación, 2023
En un momento en el que la gastronomía experimenta una gran aceptación en los medios de comunicac... more En un momento en el que la gastronomía experimenta una gran aceptación en los medios de comunicación y en el que resulta una herramienta de identidad cultural fundamental en el diálogo social y en el desarrollo económico de España, nos preguntamos cómo ha sido abordado este fenómeno desde la investigación en las universidades españolas. Para ello, estudiamos de forma minuciosa las tesis doctorales de las facultades de comunicación, así como los artículos de investigación publicados en las revistas científicas españolas más competitivas y las comunicaciones remitidas al principal congreso español de investigación en comunicación entre 2007 y 2018, periodo abordado desde el proyecto I+D+i “Mapas de la Investigación en Comunicación en las universidades españolas”. Estos datos los ponemos en contexto con las tendencias internacionales de investigación sobre este objeto de estudio, gracias a lo que podemos extraer como conclusión la insuficiente base teórica de los estudios realizados en la academia española. Por este motivo, alentamos la incorporación en la investigación sobre comunicación gastronómica en España de acercamientos interdisciplinarios, como los que caracterizan food studies.
Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2020
This introductory article argues for making food central to a praxis of cultural studies in the... more This introductory article argues for making food central to a praxis of cultural studies in the transhispanic world and the importance of inserting Hispanist voices into the arena of food studies scholarship more broadly. Articles in this Special Issue illustrate that foodways of the transhispanic world are heterogeneous and conflicted. Yet, food discourses allow us to study how people think with food, using it to mark identities, to establish power relationships and to dispute them. Articles in this collection demonstrate how transnational forces condition the food cultures and discourses of this context. They also highlight culinary nationalism and the inextricable links communities and nation-states construct and sustain between food and national cuisines from within and outside of nation-states or state-less nations. Both critical frameworks, the transnational—which engages imperial expansion, neocolonialism, globalization and migration—, and the national—in which foodways change in the context of intercultural encounters, are essential to understanding food cultures and their discursive and textual forms in this context.
This introductory article argues for making food central to a praxis of cultural studies in the t... more This introductory article argues for making food central to a praxis of cultural studies in the transhispanic world and the importance of inserting Hispanist voices into the arena of food studies scholarship more broadly. Articles in this Special Issue illustrate that foodways of the transhispanic world are heterogeneous and conflicted. Yet, food discourses allow us to study how people think with food, using it to mark identities, to establish power relationships and to dispute them. Articles in this collection demonstrate how transnational forces condition the food cultures and discourses of this context. They also highlight culinary nationalism and the inextricable links communities and nation-states construct and sustain between food and national cuisines from within and outside of nation-states or state-less nations. Both critical frameworks, the transnational—which engages imperial expansion, neocolonialism, globalization and migration—, and the national—in which foodways change in the context of intercultural encounters, are essential to understanding food cultures and their discursive and textual forms in this context
Bulletin of Spanish Studies
Dissertation, Duke University, 2009
Reviews by Rebecca Ingram
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2016
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2018
Call for Proposals by Rebecca Ingram
Co-editors: Lara Anderson and Rebecca Ingram
Proposals due January 15, 2016
We invite proposals ... more Co-editors: Lara Anderson and Rebecca Ingram
Proposals due January 15, 2016
We invite proposals for the special issue Food Cultural Studies and the Transhispanic World for a leading cultural studies journal.
This collection of articles will demonstrate the diversity of approaches that cultural studies scholars use to explore discourses centered on food, cuisine, gastronomy, and agriculture in Peninsular, Latin American, and Latino/a cultural production.
The issue’s focus is broad as we are keen to include a wide range of perspectives and approaches to this interdisciplinary field. Work on Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino/a cultural production is especially welcomed.
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Books by Rebecca Ingram
Investigación actual en gastronomía y comunicación pretende mostrar las posibilidades de esta disciplina entre otros investigadores y entre el alumnado de grado y posgrado universitario a través de los textos metodológicos de las personas que trabajan actualmente sobre España tanto en instituciones nacionales como internacionales.
Eliciting wide public participation, coopted for political purposes, regarded as a factor of economic development on any scale, and integrated into every so-called banal nationalism, the production, distribution, and consumption of food are highly relevant for historical analysis. Seeking to encourage a broader discussion about Peninsular gastrocracies, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from different sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific who have spearheaded research on gastronomy and governance in Spain.
Efforts to articulate a new, modern Spain infiltrated writing in multiple genres and media. Women's Work offers a sharp reading of diverse sources, placed in their historical context, that yields a better understanding of the roles of food within an inherently uneven modernization process. Further, author Rebecca Ingram's perceptive critique reveals the paradoxical messages women have navigated, even in texts about a daily practice that shaped their domestic and work lives. Women's Work posits that this is significant because of the degree to which domestic activities, including cooking, occupied women's daily lives, even while issues like their fitness as citizens and participation in the public sphere were hotly debated. At the same time, progressive intellectuals from diverse backgrounds began to invoke Spanish cooking and eating as one measure of Spanish modernity.
Women's Work shows how culinary writing engaged these debates and reached women at the site of much of their daily labor—the kitchen—and, in this way, shaped their thinking about their roles in modernizing Spain.
Papers by Rebecca Ingram
Reviews by Rebecca Ingram
Call for Proposals by Rebecca Ingram
Proposals due January 15, 2016
We invite proposals for the special issue Food Cultural Studies and the Transhispanic World for a leading cultural studies journal.
This collection of articles will demonstrate the diversity of approaches that cultural studies scholars use to explore discourses centered on food, cuisine, gastronomy, and agriculture in Peninsular, Latin American, and Latino/a cultural production.
The issue’s focus is broad as we are keen to include a wide range of perspectives and approaches to this interdisciplinary field. Work on Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino/a cultural production is especially welcomed.
Investigación actual en gastronomía y comunicación pretende mostrar las posibilidades de esta disciplina entre otros investigadores y entre el alumnado de grado y posgrado universitario a través de los textos metodológicos de las personas que trabajan actualmente sobre España tanto en instituciones nacionales como internacionales.
Eliciting wide public participation, coopted for political purposes, regarded as a factor of economic development on any scale, and integrated into every so-called banal nationalism, the production, distribution, and consumption of food are highly relevant for historical analysis. Seeking to encourage a broader discussion about Peninsular gastrocracies, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from different sides of the Atlantic and the Pacific who have spearheaded research on gastronomy and governance in Spain.
Efforts to articulate a new, modern Spain infiltrated writing in multiple genres and media. Women's Work offers a sharp reading of diverse sources, placed in their historical context, that yields a better understanding of the roles of food within an inherently uneven modernization process. Further, author Rebecca Ingram's perceptive critique reveals the paradoxical messages women have navigated, even in texts about a daily practice that shaped their domestic and work lives. Women's Work posits that this is significant because of the degree to which domestic activities, including cooking, occupied women's daily lives, even while issues like their fitness as citizens and participation in the public sphere were hotly debated. At the same time, progressive intellectuals from diverse backgrounds began to invoke Spanish cooking and eating as one measure of Spanish modernity.
Women's Work shows how culinary writing engaged these debates and reached women at the site of much of their daily labor—the kitchen—and, in this way, shaped their thinking about their roles in modernizing Spain.
Proposals due January 15, 2016
We invite proposals for the special issue Food Cultural Studies and the Transhispanic World for a leading cultural studies journal.
This collection of articles will demonstrate the diversity of approaches that cultural studies scholars use to explore discourses centered on food, cuisine, gastronomy, and agriculture in Peninsular, Latin American, and Latino/a cultural production.
The issue’s focus is broad as we are keen to include a wide range of perspectives and approaches to this interdisciplinary field. Work on Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino/a cultural production is especially welcomed.