legitimacy to its study while broadening interest in the topic (Barnett 2005; Derrida 2001;
Dikeç et al. 2009). However, this has led to abstract re-conceptualizations of hospitality and
a tendency to use notions of hospitality to view relations at national, regional and city scales
rather than at the level of everyday micro-geographies involving transactions of food and
drink. Moreover, this body of work has tended to treat philosophical debates surrounding …