Tastes and Politics of Inter-Cultural Food in Australia

In the 21st century, an accelerated pace of global movements of people, goods, capital, technology and ideas has led to ambivalence regarding cultural identity for individuals, as well as collectives like neighbourhoods and cities. While the preparation, availability and consumption of diverse foods have become symbolic of the very openness of a place, there are concerns that this is only reflective of a superficial and consumerist form of middle class cosmopolitanism.

Using food-oriented case studies centred on Australian cities and media, Bonding Over Food argues for a processual understanding of cosmopolitanism. Such an approach helps us understand various kinds of social bonds formed over food as 'convivial' practices that are potentially ethical and/or reflexive as opposed to being driven by 'othering' discourses.

Sommario

Introduction: Food Cosmopolitanism and Contemporary Urban Australia/ Part I: The Local/ 1. South Asian Grocery Stores in a Sydney Suburb: Conviviality in Transit/ 2. 'The Welcome Dinner Project' and 'Eat Street' Markets: Local Efforts to Mingle Over Food/ Part II: The Global/ 3. Masterchef: Selling a Cosmopolitan Australia/ 4.Australians in Hanoi: When Street Food Tours are Safely Exotic/ Part III: The Glocal/ 5.Food Safari: Does Maeve O'Maera replace the Aussie male adventurer?/ 6. Tales from 'Foodie' Creative Migrants Interviews/ Conclusion: Ethical and Reflexive Food Practices/ Index

Info autore

Sukhmani Khorana is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. She is the editor of a Routledge anthology titled, Crossover Cinema (2013). Sukhmani has published extensively on diasporic cultures, multi-platform refugee narratives, and the politics of empathy. She ? holds a current ARC Linkage grant (with the Museum of Victoria and The Australian Centre for the Moving Image) examining the role of television in the experience of migration to Australia.

Riassunto

Using food-oriented case studies centred on Australian cities and media, this book argues for a processual understanding of cosmopolitanism that approaches everyday practices as a site of potentially ethical and/or reflexive inter-cultural exchanges.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dr Sukhmani Khorana, Dr. Sukhmani Khorana, Sukhmani Khorana, Sukhmani (University of Queensland Khorana, Sukhmani Dr. Khorana
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781786602190
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-219-0
• Pagine: 142
• Serie: Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies; Media, Culture and Communicati
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia della cultura; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, COOKING / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Cookery / food & drink etc, Social and cultural anthropology, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Cookery / food and drink / food writing