The Tastes and Politics of Inter-Cultural Food in Australia Contributor(s): Khorana, Sukhmani (Author) |
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ISBN: 1786602180 ISBN-13: 9781786602183 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $164.34 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - Cooking | History |
Dewey: 394.120 |
LCCN: 2018002236 |
Series: Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 142 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Khorana, Sukhmani: - Sukhmani Khorana is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland. She is the editor of a Routledge anthology titled Crossover Cinema (2013). Sukhmani has published extensively on diasporic cultures, transnational film, and multi-platform refugee narratives. With Kate Darian-Smith and Sue Turnbull, she holds a current ARC Linkage project (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. She has also published creative non-fiction and commentary on diversity in contemporary Australia (including food cultures) in outlets such as The Conversation, Overland, Kill Your Darlings, and Peril, and is a co-convenor of the Asian Australian Film Forum and Network. |