raulmatta, Author at FOOD2GATHER

25. January 202112. January 2023F2G slices

Aleppo in Berlin

(English version below) Samer sitzt bequem am Terrassentisch seines Lokals im lebhaften Berliner Distrikt Friedrichshain. Es ist ein sonniger Mittag, ein perfekter Moment, um eine Arbeitspause einzulegen. Er hat uns hier willkommen geheißen und uns auf einem Pfefferminztee eingeladen. Während wir ihn gemeinsam trinken erinnert er sich an die Anfänge seiner Zeit in Deutschland, wo […]

12. October 202012. January 2023Conference

Food Conviviality and Migrants’ Sustainable Livelihoods in Germany – ICAF Conference, September 2020

In September 25th 2020, the German team participated in the XLI Conference of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF). Based on our fieldwork in Berlin with our partners REFUEAT and Über den Tellerrand, we explored the role of food and cooking in the articulation of relations between migrants and host communities in Germany. We analyzed how two initiatives by our partners foster food conviviality, and the social and economic relations this encompasses, to create sustainable responses to the unequal relationships that affect the lives of migrants. This post is the text of the presentation.