Globalized Eating Cultures

Presents an international and detailed overview of food cultures and consumption in relation to mediatization Explores how new modes of global mediazation impact on processes of negotiating contemporary notions of nationality, class, tradition and gender Reveals how processes of globalization and mediatization intersect in regionally specific patterns

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Jörg Dürrschmidt is Professor of Sociology at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg - Public Administration and Finance, Germany.

York Kautt is Professor of Media Sociology at the University of Giessen, Germany.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction: globalization and mediatization as mediating concepts; Jörg Dürrschmidt.- Part I: Nation and region.- Chapter 2. The formation of a national cuisine in Costa Rican cookbooks and its impact on regional cuisines as markers of identity; Mona Nikoli.- Chapter 3. Mediating National Identity, Practising Life Politics: Visual Representations of a Food Education Campaign in Japan; Stephanie Assmann.- Chapter 4: Mediatization and Mediation of parenthood Politics of infant feeding in Hong Kong; Veronica MAK Sau-wa.- Chapter 5. Myths of the Health-giving Properties of Korean Cuisine; Chan Young Kim and David Carter.- Part II: Tradition and Modernity.- Chapter 6. Technological Change and Contemporary Transformations in Yucatecan Cooking; Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz.- Chapter 7. Traditional food knowledge in a globalised world: Mediation and mediatization perceived by Tswana women in South Africa; Nicole Claasen & Shingairai Chigeza.- Chapter 8. Cooking the Past: Traditionalism in Czech Culinary Magazines; Michal Boák.- Part III: Celebrity Culture.- Chapter 9. Celebrity Chefs and the Limits of Playing Politics from the Kitchen; Raúl Matta.- Chapter 10. Ethnodelicious: Mediatized Culinary Anthropology and the Mediation of Global Food Cultures; Isabelle de Solier.- Chapter 11. Creating and Routinizing Style and Immediacy: Keith Floyd and the South-West English Roots of New Cookery Mediatizations; David Inglis and Anna-Mari Almila.- Part IV: Social and cultural complexity.- Chapter 12. Mediating Fish: Mediatization, Consumer Choice, and Media Morality; Elspeth Probyn.- Chapter 13. Halal Crab, Haram Crab: Understanding Islam in southern Thailand through the lens of seafood; Saroja Dorairajoo.- Chapter 14. It's only cannibalism if we're equals: Consuming the Lesser in Hannibal; Michael Dellwing.- Chapter 15. Mediatization and global foodscapes: a conceptual outline; York Kautt.