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The heritagization of food is based on cultural constructions creating or confirming identity markers. As the topic of heritage is one the most recently addressed within the wide bibliography of food studies, in particular food history has been analysing how societies and groups historically produced food heritages. This essay chooses the UNESCO international food labelling as a lens to analyse limits and critic points of the institutional heritagizazion. Firstly, the essay will examine the place-based identity paradigms involved in UNESCO institutional procedures and their articulation on different spatial levels, which tend to overlap and intersect each other in complex geographies. Secondly, it will analyse risks and problems of the constant recourse to past and history – related to issues of authenticity, tradition, nostalgia – aimed at legitimizing food heritage and identity claim. ; This is Chapter Ii of the book Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe edited by Ilaria Porciani. This book is a result of the European Union- funded Horizon 2020 research project CoHERE (Critical Heritages: performing and representing identities in Europe). CoHERE received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 693289.

Food labelling procedures, with their focus on geographic origin of food, contribute to shape territorial identities at different spatial levels. International institutions, above all UNESCO and the European Union, become guarantors of local identities linking food traditions to specific places. However, to support in international arena local claims are the nation-states, which end up using international institutions to achieve global recognition for their national branding. The paper aims at analysing the entanglement between local, national and international identities in the process of heritagization of food, related to issues of authenticity, tradition, terroir.

Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe contends that food is a fundamental element of heritage, and a particularly important one in times of crisis. Arguing that food, taste, cuisine and gastronomy are crucial markers of identity that are inherently connected to constructions of place, tradition and the past, the book demonstrates how they play a role in intangible, as well as tangible, heritage. Featuring contributions from experts working across Europe and beyond, and adopting a strong historical and transnational perspective, the book examines the various ways in which food can be understood and used as heritage. Including explorations of imperial spaces, migrations and diasporas; the role of commercialisation processes, and institutional practices within political and cultural domains, this volume considers all aspects of this complex issue. Arguing that the various European cuisines are the result of exchanges, hybridities and complex historical processes, Porciani and the chapter authors offer up a new way of deconstructing banal nationalism and of moving away from the idea of static identities. Suggesting a new and different approach to the idea of so-called national cuisines, Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe will be a compelling read for academic audiences in museum and heritage studies, cultural and food studies, anthropology and history. Chapters 1,2,4,6 and 12 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Nel corso dell'Ottocento il controllo poliziesco si profilò, per il continente europeo, prima come una delle componenti essenziali del sistema internazionale messo a punto da Metternich e poi come una funzione da rimodulare a fronte della crisi politica legata agli eventi del 1848. Nel Mezzogiorno, all'indomani del Decennio francese, la polizia fu al centro di un'intensa riflessione, incline a ripensarla al di fuori del modello napoleonico, il cui esito non era affatto scontato. I nodi problematici emersi in questo contesto riguardo alla natura e ai limiti del potere di polizia erano destinati a restare, nei decenni successivi, oggetto di un dibattito sviluppato nel più ampio quadro della penisola italiana. I fermenti rivoluzionari che attraversarono il Regno delle Due Sicilie, in particolare a seguito delle rivoluzioni quarantottesche, posero tuttavia in primo piano l'urgenza di dispiegare dispositivi e strumenti idonei in primo luogo a fare della difesa dello status quo il compito prevalente del controllo poliziesco. Inoltre, a fronte del respiro globale della minaccia liberal-democratica, la polizia borbonica riarticolò la sorveglianza politica in senso transnazionale, ricorrendo ad agenti segreti e spie, ma anche a consoli e diplomatici, sulle tracce di esuli e cospiratori in una dimensione europea e mediterranea.

[English]:During the nineteenth century, the police control represented, for the European continent, first one of the pivotal components of the international system developed by Metternich and then a function to be reshaped in view of the political crisis due to the events of 1848. In the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, in the aftermath of the French Decade, the police were the focus of an intense reflection, inclined to rethink it beyond the Napoleonic model, whose outcome was not at all obvious. The issues that emerged in this context concerning the nature and limits of police power were destined to remain, in the following decades, the subject of a debate developed in the broader framework of the Italian peninsula. The revolutionary turmoil crossing the Kingdom, in particular following the 1848 revolutions, nevertheless placed in the foreground the urgency of deploying suitable devices and instruments to make the prevailing task of police control a defense of the status quo. Moreover, facing the global scale of the liberal-democratic threat, the Bourbon police rearranged political surveillance in a transnational sense, resorting to secret agents and spies, but also to consuls and diplomats, on the trail of exiles and conspirators in a European and Mediterranean dimension./ [Italiano]: Nel corso dell'Ottocento il controllo poliziesco si profilò, per il continente europeo, prima come una delle componenti essenziali del sistema internazionale messo a punto da Metternich e poi come una funzione da rimodulare a fronte della crisi politica legata agli eventi del 1848. Nel Mezzogiorno, all'indomani del Decennio francese, la polizia fu al centro di un'intensa riflessione, incline a ripensarla al di fuori del modello napoleonico, il cui esito non era affatto scontato. I nodi problematici emersi in questo contesto riguardo alla natura e ai limiti del potere di polizia erano destinati a restare, nei decenni successivi, oggetto di un dibattito sviluppato nel più ampio quadro della penisola italiana. I fermenti rivoluzionari che attraversarono il Regno delle Due Sicilie, in particolare a seguito delle rivoluzioni quarantottesche, posero tuttavia in primo piano l'urgenza di dispiegare dispositivi e strumenti idonei in primo luogo a fare della difesa dello status quo il compito prevalente del controllo poliziesco. Inoltre, a fronte del respiro globale della minaccia liberal-democratica, la polizia borbonica riarticolò la sorveglianza politica in senso transnazionale, ricorrendo ad agenti segreti e spie, ma anche a consoli e diplomatici, sulle tracce di esuli e cospiratori in una dimensione europea e mediterranea.

Analysing the rise of Southern African middle classes as a specific case study, the aim of this paper is to emphasize the plural and entangled histories of black middle classes within two national contexts. The analysis of the dichotomy between the white rural middle class (as especially recognizable in the history of South African Boers) and the black urban Lumpenproletariat as structuring the political and cultural history both of South Africa and Zimbabwe, in fact, is eventually challenged by the rise of black middle classes in the postcolonial and post-apartheid era. As these processes are rooted in a peculiar habitat such as the farm and exerted through a specific and yet all-encompassing habitus, this paper will retrace these aspects in the history of Southern African literature in English, focusing on recent novels such as John Maxwell Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) and Peter Godwin's When A Crocodile Eats The Sun (2006).