MEET OUR TEAM Raúl Matta

We present the leaders of the teams participating in the CONVIVIUM project, responsible for the implementation of the project tasks. In several episodes, we will present people from different countries, scientific centers and cultural institutions who share a common passion for food, healthy nutrition, social integration, cultural heritage, art, architecture, nature in urban space, local activities and intercultural exchange – in other words, everything that the CONVIVIUM. NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS SOLUTIONS IN FOOD, LIVING HERITAGE, AND CONVIVIALITY project involves.

Meet Raúl Matta from the Institut Lyfe Research and Innovation Center.

Raúl is a full researcher at the Institut Lyfe Research and Innovation Center, in France. He works at the intersection of anthropology, food and heritage studies. From that vantage point, he has investigated the ways in which food is invested with a multitude of goals and meanings by different actors and stakeholders. He has conducted fieldwork in Peru, Mexico, Germany, and France, and occupied leading roles in projects funded by the German Research Foundation (Food as Cultural Heritage), the French National Research Agency (FOODHERIT), and the European Commission (FOOD2GATHER; CONVIVIUM). His articles have appeared in Social Anthropology, The Sociological Review, The International Journal of Cultural Property, Food, Culture & Society, Food and Foodways, among other journals. Raúl is also the author of From the Plate to Gastro-Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). He serves on the editorial advisory board of the book series Food and Identity in a Globalising World (Palgrave) and Culinaria (University of Toronto Press) and of the journal Anthropology of Food.

Video by Diego Vilas Boas
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