Asian food and culinary politics

Food governance, constructed heritage and contested boundaries

Datos Bibliográficos

ID18947559
AutoresY W Chan (0000-0001-8689-9536, City University of Hong Kong, autor de correspondencia), J Farrer (0000-0002-9847-0347, Sophia University)
Año2021
Volumen20
Número1
Páginas1-11
Fecha de publicación2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1683-478X • E-ISSN: 2168-4227
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1683478x.2020.1779968
OpenAlexW3037569799
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas40

This introduction outlines the conceptual framework of the special issue. Culinary politics involves a contest over the social organization and cultural meanings of food by a variety of actors: both civil and state, the powerful and the grassroots. In particular, we consider food governance as a form of culinary politics entailing a two-way traffic, in which policies and regulations are set by state actors, while the responses of civil actors often reshape the foodscape and complicate the outcome of food policies. Food governance also points to the reshaping and contestation of collective and individual food identities, and how different power hierarchies can be challenged through acts of food-making. While food is an enduring cultural concern in human life, food governance and culinary politics should be two important concepts for researchers to engage with when examining individuals' soft skills of food-making and the exercise of soft power through food

Agriculture · Civil society · CONTEST · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental ethics · Food security · Food systems · Geography · Grassroots · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Right to food · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture