Engendering Transnational Foodways: A Case Study of Southern Sudanese Women in Brooks, Alberta

Graduate Student Papers in Feminist Anthropology Award

Authors

  • Merin Oleschuk University of Alberta

Keywords:

Southern Sudanese, refugees, gender, food, identity, cosmopolitanism

Abstract

This article explores the experiences of Southern
Sudanese refugee women in Brooks, Alberta, illustrating how
"foodways" (Long 2004) impact and reflect women's conceptions
of themselves as gendered, multinational citizens. When women
seek out and appropriate diverse culinary traditions to create
belonging within multiple circumstances, they enact agency.
Women do not passively accept their fractured connections to
their homeland but instead actively work to rebuild relation
ships within the diversity that defines their experiences in ways
that garner them power, prestige and resources to improve their
lives. These movements show how gender and power are en
twined in the creation of transnational belonging.

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Published

2022-03-16

How to Cite

Oleschuk, M. (2022). Engendering Transnational Foodways: A Case Study of Southern Sudanese Women in Brooks, Alberta: Graduate Student Papers in Feminist Anthropology Award. Anthropologica, 54(1), 119–131. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/937

Issue

Vol. 54 No. 1 (2012): Anthropology in the Era of New Information and Communication Technologies: New Explorations

Section

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Copyright (c) 2012 Merin Oleschuk

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