{"product_id":"gastrofascism-and-empire-food-in-italian-east-africa-1935-1941-paperback","title":"Gastrofascism and Empire: Food in Italian East Africa, 1935-1941 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimone Cinotto\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Scholliers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAmy Bentley\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFood stood at the centre of Mussolini's attempt to occupy Ethiopia and build an Italian Empire in East Africa.\u003c\/b\u003e Seeking to redirect the surplus of Italian rural labor from migration overseas to its own Empire, the fascist regime envisioned transforming Ethiopia into Italy's granary to establish self-sufficiency, demographic expansion and strengthen Italy's international political position. While these plans failed, the extensive food exchanges and culinary hybridizations between Ethiopian and Italian food cultures thrived, and resulted in the creation of an Ethiopian-Italian cuisine, a taste of Empire at the margins. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn studying food in short-lived Italian East Africa, \u003ci\u003eGastrofascism and Empire \u003c\/i\u003ebreaks significant new ground in our understanding of the workings of empire in the circulation of bodies, foodways, and global practices of dependence and colonialism, as well as the decolonizing practices of indigenous food and African anticolonial resistance. In East Africa, Fascist Italy brought older imperial models of global food to a hypermodern level in all its political, technoscientific, environmental, and nutritional aspects. This larger story of food sovereignty-entered in racist, mass settler colonialism-is dramatically different from the plantation and trade colonialisms of other empires and has never been comprehensively told. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing an original decolonizing food studies approach and an unprecedented variety of unexplored Ethiopian and Italian sources, Cinotto describes the different meanings of different foods for different people at different points of the imperial food chain. Exploring the subjectivities, agencies and emotions of Ethiopian and Italian men and women, it goes beyond simple colonizer\/colonized binaries and offers a nuanced picture of lived, multisensorial experiences with food and empire.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimone Cinotto \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, Italy. He was Visiting Professor at Indiana University, USA from 2017-2018 and at SOAS, University of London, UK from 2014-2019. He is the author of several books including\u003ci\u003e The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and with Daniel Bender, \u003ci\u003eFood Mobilities: Making World Cuisines \u003c\/i\u003e(2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53247620874547,"sku":"9781350436879","price":78.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/G4l8gBMyzh9781350436879.webp?v=1776305396","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/gastrofascism-and-empire-food-in-italian-east-africa-1935-1941-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}