'Merguez Capitale': The merguez sausage as a discursive construction of cosmopolitan branding, colonial memory and local flavour in Marseille

Giovanangeli, A

'Merguez Capitale': The merguez sausage as a discursive construction of cosmopolitan branding, colonial memory and local flavour in Marseille

Giovanangeli, A

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: French Cultural Studies, 2015, 26 (2), pp. 231 - 243
Issue Date:: 2015-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Giovanangeli, A https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9763-2503	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:12:05Z
dc.date.issued	2015-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	French Cultural Studies, 2015, 26 (2), pp. 231 - 243	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0957-1558	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/36263
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/36262
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/36028
dc.description.abstract	© The Author(s) 2015. Official cultural sectors increasingly deploy cosmopolitan branding efforts, based on the diversity of migrant populations, to market a city as attractive and open. These strategies, meanwhile, continue to coexist with attachments to place as well as a sense of local identification and belonging. In this paper I refer to the way food, and in particular the merguez sausage, is used as a marker to evoke both the cosmopolitan and the local specificities of the city of Marseille, once celebrated as the gateway to France's empire. This work examines cultural initiatives, city streets, film and published Pied-Noir testimonials to argue that the merguez, a spicy sausage associated with North African cuisine, is used as a discursive construction of cosmopolitan branding, attached to a colonial memory, notably Algerian, while coexisting with the formation of local specificities in Marseille.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	French Cultural Studies	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/0957155815571512	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Cultural Studies	en_US
dc.title	'Merguez Capitale': The merguez sausage as a discursive construction of cosmopolitan branding, colonial memory and local flavour in Marseille	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	26	en_US
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utslib.for	2005 Literary Studies	en_US
utslib.for	2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields	en_US
dc.location.activity	UK
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	26	en_US

Abstract:

© The Author(s) 2015. Official cultural sectors increasingly deploy cosmopolitan branding efforts, based on the diversity of migrant populations, to market a city as attractive and open. These strategies, meanwhile, continue to coexist with attachments to place as well as a sense of local identification and belonging. In this paper I refer to the way food, and in particular the merguez sausage, is used as a marker to evoke both the cosmopolitan and the local specificities of the city of Marseille, once celebrated as the gateway to France's empire. This work examines cultural initiatives, city streets, film and published Pied-Noir testimonials to argue that the merguez, a spicy sausage associated with North African cuisine, is used as a discursive construction of cosmopolitan branding, attached to a colonial memory, notably Algerian, while coexisting with the formation of local specificities in Marseille.

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