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About Amir Sayadabdi
I am a Lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. I am mainly interested in anthropology of food and its intersection with gender studies, migration studies, and studies of race, ethnicity, and nationalism.Amir Sayadabdi is Lecturer in Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington. He is mainly interested in anthropology of food and its intersection with gender studies, migration studies, and studies of race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
NBN Episodes hosted by Amir:
April 1, 2023
Citizen Designs
What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen …
February 10, 2023
Staple Security
Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. In St…
August 18, 2022
Hidden Liberalism
Compared to rival ideologies, liberalism has fared rather poorly in modern Iran. This is all the more remarkable given the essentially liberal substan…
June 29, 2022
Edible Insects
From grasshoppers to grubs, an eye-opening look at insect cuisine around the world. An estimated two billion people worldwide regularly consume ins…
June 22, 2022
Food Instagram
Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish edit contributions that …
March 2, 2022
Invisible
Despite our mythology of benign race relations, Aotearoa New Zealand has a long history of underlying prejudice and racism. The experiences of Indian …
February 22, 2022
A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People
In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities (Duke UP, 2021), David Boarder Giles explores the ways …
February 22, 2022
Food in Memory and Imagination
How do we engage with food through memory and imagination? Food in Memory and Imagination: Space, Place and, Taste (Bloomsbury, 2022) spans time and s…
February 22, 2022
Coming of Age in Iran
Crippling sanctions, inflation, and unemployment have increasingly burdened young people in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In Coming of Age in Iran: Po…
December 24, 2021
Tomato
In the history of food, the tomato is a relative newcomer but it would now be impossible to imagine the food cultures of many nations without them. Th…
December 20, 2021
Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War
Eighteen months after Iran’s Revolution in 1979, hundreds of thousands of the country’s women participated in the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) in a variety…
December 17, 2021
The Immigrant Kitchen
In The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora (Ohio State UP, 2016), Vivian Nun Halloran examines food memoirs by immigrants and their desce…
December 17, 2021
Gender and Food
Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019) synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, ge…
December 7, 2021
Saffron
Explore the dramatic history of the world’s most expensive spice in Saffron: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2020). Literally worth their weight in …
December 6, 2021
Food
Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer ma…
December 2, 2021
Research Methods in Digital Food Studies
Research Methods in Digital Food Studies (Routledge, 2021) offers the first methodological synthesis of digital food studies. It brings together contr…
November 30, 2021
Mustard
Whether grainy or smooth, spicy or sweet, Dijon, American, or English, mustard accompanies our food and flavors our life around the globe. It has been…
November 23, 2021
Food Justice Now!
Food Justice Now: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) charts a path from food activism to social justice acti…
November 22, 2021
Feeding Iran
Since Iran's 1979 Revolution, the imperative to create and protect the inner purity of family and nation in the face of outside spiritual corruption h…
November 18, 2021
Avocado
The avocado is the iconic food of the twenty-first century. It has gone from a little-known regional food to a social media darling in less than a hun…
November 15, 2021
Vanilla
Today I talked to Rosa Abreu-Runkel about her new book Vanilla: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2020). Intoxicating and evocative, vanilla is so muc…
November 9, 2021
Coffee
In Coffee: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2019), Jonathan Morris discusses the diverse cast of caffeinated characters who drank coffee, why and whe…
October 26, 2021
The Immigrant-Food Nexus
The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America (MIT Press, 2020) considers the intersection of food and immigration at both t…