Food, Foodways And Foodscapes: Culture, Community And Consumption In Post-colonial Singapore

by Lily Lee Lee Kong
Food, Foodways And Foodscapes: Culture, Community And Consumption In Post-colonial Singapore
Author: Lily Lee Lee Kong
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2015-10-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9814641243
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This fascinating and insightful volume introduces readers to food as a window to the social and cultural history and geography of Singapore. It demonstrates how the food we consume, the ways in which we acquire and prepare it, the company we keep as we cook and eat, and our preferences and practices are all revealing of a larger economic, social, cultural and political world, both historically and in contemporary times. Readers will be captivated by chapters that deal with the intersections of food and ethnicity, gender and class, food hybridity, innovations and creativity, heritage and change, globalization and localization, and more. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Singapore culture and society.

Food, Foodways and Foodscapes

by Lily Kong
Food, Foodways and Foodscapes
Author: Lily Kong
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2015-10-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9814641235
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This fascinating and insightful volume introduces readers to food as a window to the social and cultural history and geography of Singapore. It demonstrates how the food we consume, the ways in which we acquire and prepare it, the company we keep as we cook and eat, and our preferences and practices are all revealing of a larger economic, social, cultural and political world, both historically and in contemporary times. Readers will be captivated by chapters that deal with the intersections of food and ethnicity, gender and class, food hybridity, innovations and creativity, heritage and change, globalization and localization, and more. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Singapore culture and society.

Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements

by Devon Peña
Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements
Author: Devon Peña
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1610756185
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Winner, 2018 ASFS (Association for the Study of Food and Society) Book Award, Edited Volume This collection of new essays offers groundbreaking perspectives on the ways that food and foodways serve as an element of decolonization in Mexican-origin communities. The writers here take us from multigenerational acequia farmers, who trace their ancestry to Indigenous families in place well before the Oñate Entrada of 1598, to tomorrow’s transborder travelers who will be negotiating entry into the United States. Throughout, we witness the shifting mosaic of Mexican-origin foods and foodways in the fields, gardens, and kitchen tables from Chiapas to Alaska. Global food systems are also considered from a critical agroecological perspective, including the ways colonialism affects native biocultural diversity, ecosystem resilience, and equality across species, human groups, and generations. Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements is a major contribution to the understanding of the ways that Mexican-origin peoples have resisted and transformed food systems. It will animate scholarship on global food studies for years to come.

Foodscapes

by Carlnita P. Greene
Foodscapes
Author: Carlnita P. Greene
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Food
ISBN: 9781433142888
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Foodscapes explores the nexus of food, drink, space, and place, both locally and globally. Scholars interrogate our practices and behaviors with food within spaces and places, analyze the meanings that we create about these entities, and demonstrate their wider cultural, political, social, economic, and material implications.

Foodscapes

by Timo Sedelmeier
Foodscapes
Author: Timo Sedelmeier
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2022-02-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3658367067
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This book deals with foodscapes, which are still a relatively young field of research in the social sciences and were first addressed in the context of questions of spatial inequality in the mid-1990s. In addition to an introduction to various landscape concepts as well as a brief historical outline on the geographical study of food, the volume focuses on the multidimensionality of foodscapes and illustrates this with two case studies.

Food Between the Country and the City

by Nuno Domingos
Food Between the Country and the City
Author: Nuno Domingos
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857857045
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At a time when the relationship between 'the country' and 'the city' is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams' classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect their changing relationship but have also been used to alter the very dynamics through which countryside and cities, and the food grown and eaten within them, are produced and sustained. Leading scholars in the study of food offer ethnographic studies of peasant homesteads, family farms, community gardens, state food industries, transnational supermarkets, planning offices, tourist boards, and government ministries in locales across the globe. This fascinating collection provides vital new insight into the contested dynamics of food and will be key reading for upper-level students and scholars of food studies, anthropology, history and geography.

Foodways and Empathy

by Anita von Poser
Foodways and Empathy
Author: Anita von Poser
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857459201
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Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another’s lives and ponder one another’s states in relation to their foodways. This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, uncovering the conceptual convergence of local notions of relatedness, foodways, and empathy. In weaving together discussions about paramount values as passed on through myth, the expression of feelings in daily life, and the bodily experience of social and physical environs, a life-world unfolds in which moral, emotional, and embodied foodways contribute notably to the creation of relationships. Concerned with unique processes of “making kin,” the book adds a distinct case to recent debates about relatedness and empathy and sheds new light onto the conventional anthropological themes of food production, sharing, and exchange.

Foodies

by Josee Johnston
Foodies
Author: Josee Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2014-12-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317745000
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This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent ‘hole in the wall’ ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The second story describes how food operates as a source of status and distinction for economic and cultural elites, indirectly maintaining and reproducing social inequality. While the first storyline insists that anybody can be a foodie, the second asks foodies to look in the mirror and think about their relative social and economic privilege. By simultaneously considering both of these stories, and studying how they operate in tension, a delicious sociology of food becomes available, perfect for teaching a broad range of cultural sociology courses.

Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage

by Ronda L. Brulotte
Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage
Author: Ronda L. Brulotte
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317145992
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Food - its cultivation, preparation and communal consumption - has long been considered a form of cultural heritage. A dynamic, living product, food creates social bonds as it simultaneously marks off and maintains cultural difference. In bringing together anthropologists, historians and other scholars of food and heritage, this volume closely examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of 'cultural heritage' on local, regional, national and international scales. Contributors explore a range of themes, including how food is used to mark insiders and outsiders within an ethnic group; how the same food's meanings change within a particular society based on class, gender or taste; and how traditions are 'invented' for the revitalization of a community during periods of cultural pressure. Featuring case studies from Europe, Asia and the Americas, this timely volume also addresses the complex processes of classifying, designating, and valorizing food as 'terroir,' 'slow food,' or as intangible cultural heritage through UNESCO. By effectively analyzing food and foodways through the perspectives of critical heritage studies, this collection productively brings two overlapping but frequently separate theoretical frameworks into conversation.