The multiple edges of gastrodiplomacy: the paradoxes of the Basque case

Dennis Sorondo Salazar ()
Additional contact information
Dennis Sorondo Salazar: Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 2024, vol. 20, issue 2, No 10, 244-252

Abstract: Abstract Building on current approaches to gastrodiplomacy and expanding on them, this article will highlight (1) the anthropological and political dimensions of diplomacy and gastronomy, as well as their potential to explore, reflect on, and work on forms of coexistence and relationship with others. For this, it will analyse (2) the role of gastronomy in the affirmation of identities while promoting forms of coexistence and mediation of estrangement. Without contradicting the above but showing the antinomies and paradoxes revealed by the current political and economic system, this work will also try to (3) expose the way in which food has become a source of multiple inequalities within and between communities. Finally, (4) the concept of gastrology will be deepened to explore the potential of gastrodiplomacy as a tool, practice, and political logic through which to ‘mediate estrangement’, act in critical areas, labour the difference and think and make the way we want to live in it.

Keywords: Gastrodiplomacy; New basque cuisine; Mediation of estrangement; Gastrology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1057/s41254-023-00317-2 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:pbapdi:v:20:y:2024:i:2:d:10.1057_s41254-023-00317-2

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/41254

DOI: 10.1057/s41254-023-00317-2

Access Statistics for this article

Place Branding and Public Diplomacy is currently edited by Robert Govers and James Pamment

More articles in Place Branding and Public Diplomacy from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().