The “Cultural Turn” of Postmigrant Conviviality. A Historical Case Study on Practices and Discourses of (Multi)Cultural Diversity in Switzerland

Author(s) : Kijan Espahangizi

Source : https://doi.org/10.1515/9788366675308-006

“This recipe of “Portuguese style chicken” was published in a cookbook of the Mitenand-initiative in Switzerland in 1981 (Berner Komitee, 1981, p. 23). “Mitenand” means “together” respectively “with each other” in Swiss-German dialect. The civil rights coalition was founded in 1974 and existed until the end of the 1980s. Sharing food was part of lived solidarity within the immigrant solidarity movement (Espa–
hangizi, 2018a). The cookbook gathered recipes from women of different national backgrounds who had participated in language classes organized by activists of the Contact Point for Foreigners and Swiss in Bern and the ECAP, an adult education institution founded by members of the Italian trade union CGIL in Switzerland. The publication included short texts on immigration issues, biographical accounts of immigrants, political poems, photographs, and cartoons.”

Keywords: Transculturaltheory; Difference; Globalization; Representation; Standardization; Power; Conviviality; Arts; Fashion; Multilingualism”