Bread and Circuses
Food meets politics in the Singapore media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12909579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Duffy (0000-0002-6562-7379, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author), Yang Yuhong Ashley (Nanyang Technological University) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-74 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17512786.2011.622892 |
| OpenAlex | W1599326306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 18 |
While there has been consistent academic interest in the link between the media and politics, this attention has mostly bypassed lifestyle journalism. Yet this can reflect the political and social realities of a country if less clearly than more overtly political coverage. This paper seeks to demonstrate how the Singapore government has used food to help construct a national identity and how the local print media have been a partner in this. It analyses how food has been represented in the Singapore press in relation to attitudes that contribute to nation-building. The findings suggest that the food-related articles studied usually reflected a culture of self-improvement, an ethnic-cultural element and cosmopolitan attitudes, all of which were identified as touchstones of Singapore's government-approved national identity. In addition, there is also marginally more press coverage of cosmopolitan and foreign food compared to local food, in concurrence with government initiatives to place the country as a globalised hub
Aesthetics · Construct (python library · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics · Identity (music · Journalism · Media studies · National identity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |