Full Description
At a time when the relationship between 'the country' and 'the city' is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams' classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect their changing relationship but have also been used to alter the very dynamics through which countryside and cities, and the food grown and eaten within them, are produced and sustained.
Leading scholars in the study of food offer ethnographic studies of peasant homesteads, family farms, community gardens, state food industries, transnational supermarkets, planning offices, tourist boards, and government ministries in locales across the globe. This fascinating collection provides vital new insight into the contested dynamics of food and will be key reading for upper-level students and scholars of food studies, anthropology, history and geography.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Approaching Food and Foodways Between the Country and the City Through the Work of Raymond Williams
Nuno Domingos and José Manuel Sobral, both Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and Harry G. West, SOAS, University of London, UK
Section I: Of the Country and Its Food
Conflicting Wine Narratives: 'Pleasing Prospects' and the Struggles in the Construction of Alentejo
Nuno Domingos, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Embodying Country-City Relations: the Chola Cuencana in Highland Ecuador
Emma-Jayne Abbots, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK
Bringing the City to the Country: Supermarket Expansion, Food Practices and Aesthetics in Rural South Africa
Elizabeth Hull, SOAS, University of London, UK
Bringing It All Back Home: Reconnecting the Country and the City through Heritage Food Tourism in the French Auvergne
Harry G. West, SOAS, University of London, UK
Section II: Of the City and Its Food
Coming to Terms with Urban Agriculture: a Self-Critique
Laura B. Delind, Michigan State University, USA
Urban Hunger and the Home Village: How Lilongwe's Migrant Poor Stay Food Secure
Johan Pottier, SOAS, University of London, UK
Perceptions of the Country through the Migration of City-grown Crops: Guinean Food in Bissau and in Lisbon
Maria Abranches, University of Sussex, UK
Section III: Of the Nation and Its Food
The Country, the Nation and the Region in Representations of Portuguese Food and Cuisine
José Manuel Sobral, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Hazz al-Quhuf: An Urban Satire on Peasant Life and Food from Seventeenth-century Egypt
Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck and SOAS, University of London, UK
Reflecting Authenticity: 'Grandmother's Yogurt' between Bulgaria and Japan
Maria Yotova, University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Unpacking the Mediterranean Diet: Agriculture, Food, and Health
Monica Truninger and Dulce Freire, both Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Notes
References
Index
