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The World On a Plate: Culinary Culture, Displacement and Geographical Knowledges
Ian Cook,Philip Crang +1 more
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The authors used claims about the local globalization of culinary culture to stage an argument about the character of material cultural geographies and their spaces of identity practice, and argued for forms of critical intervention that work with the fetish rather than attempt to reach behind it.Abstract:
This article uses claims about the local globalization of culinary culture to stage an argument about the character of material cultural geographies and their spaces of identity practice. It approaches these geographies in two ways. First, it views foods not only as placed cultural artefacts, but also as dis-placed materials and practices, inhabiting many times and spaces which, far from being neatly bounded, bleed into and mutually constitute each other. Second, it considers the geographical knowledges, or understandings, of foods' geo graphies, mobilized within circuits of culinary culture, outlining their pro duction through processes of commodity fetishism, and arguing for forms of critical intervention that work with the fetish rather than attempt to reach behind it.read more
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Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
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Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture
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The social life of things: The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the production of commodities is also a cultural and cognitive process: commodities must be not only produced materially as things, but also culturally marked as being a certain kind of thing.