Food and the Iranian Diaspora: Embodying Nation, Gender and Memory in New Zealand

Food and the Iranian Diaspora critically analyses everyday life within the Iranian diaspora in New Zealand, with a focus on the generative role of food in the construction of a ‘diasporic Iranianness’. It shows how different aspects of identity, in particular gender and national identity, undergo reconfiguration and reconstruction within Iranians’ transnational and diasporic arenas of social interaction and modes of belonging. As the first ethnographic work on the Iranian diaspora in New Ze...