Tastes of the 'Mongrel' City
Geographies of Memory, Spice, Hospitality and Forgiveness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2992873 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Duruz (0000-0002-2227-4710, University of South Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/csr.v19i1.3078 |
| OpenAlex | W2016577410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article examines cultural fragments - local places, people's gestures, stories, tastes, affective landscapes - to map geographies of 'Africa' in a historically 'mixed' urban Australian neighbourhood. Focusing on a small Ethiopian business, Addis Ababa Café, the article develops an analysis framed by economies of nostalgic flavours and intimations of transnational belonging. Conceptually, the article approaches the question of how different people manage the task of living together in 'our mongrel cities' from two directions. Firstly, it reworks Giard's celebrations of 'doing-cooking' as embedded knowledge to argue that, in the postcolonial city, memories and spices together constitutes significant cultural capital for identity-based trading. Secondly, it worries at Derrida's arguments that hospitality and forgiveness are paradoxical. Do their contradictions actually preclude productive analytical connections, even when connections are haunted by ambivalence? Commensality based on alliances of 'others' might question at least ethnocentric assumptions of who offers hospitality, who forgives
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Archaeology · Art · Forgiveness · Hospitality · Identity (music · Media studies · Sociology · Tourism · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Migrant Belongings
Moving Food
White Nation
Living in Singapore, travelling to Hong Kong, remembering Australia
The hospitable city
Authenticity and commoditization in tourism
Dis/locating Cultures/Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism
Home Cooking
Living with difference
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |