Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food

Cook, Ian J.; Crang, Philip; Thorpe, Mark

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-27653-0_11

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“…The analyst remains ‘at play in the fields’ of cultural difference and meaning without shirking the duties of a critical geographical materialism. With its liminal and boundary‐crossing characteristics, the study of food is central to this post‐structural‐inflected political economy (Cook and Crang 1996; Cook et al 1999 2000; Guthman 2002 2003; Mansfield 2003b; also papers in Freidberg 2003c). The use of these analytical tools has also begun to figure prominently in debates in agrofood studies (Lockie and Kitto 2000; Goodman and DuPuis 2002; also papers in Goodman 2002 2003).…”

Section: Alternative Consumption Via ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Conservation’ mentioning

confidence: 99%

Consuming narratives: the political ecology of ‘alternative’ consumption

Bryant

Goodman

2004

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper examines how political ecology themes of tropical conservation and social justice become representational practices underpinning 'alternative' consumption in the North. The notion of commodity culture is adopted to understand the ambiguous rationalities and ethical assumptions of two sets of consumption practices. The first case considers Edenic myth-making used to assimilate concerns over tropical deforestation in the South to consumption-intensive if conservation-minded lifestyles in the North. The second case looks at fair trade and how concern about social injustice and unfair labour practices in the South is harnessed to solidarity-seeking consumption constitutive of 'radical' lifestyles. The paper suggests these contrasting commodity cultures broadly conform to divergent positions in red-green debates. It argues that both are weakened as a form of social and political 'caring at a distance' due to an uncritical acceptance of consumption as the primary basis of action. key words political ecology consumption fair trade Edenic myths commodity culture

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Section: Alternative Consumption Via ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Conservation’ mentioning

confidence: 99%

Consuming narratives: the political ecology of ‘alternative’ consumption

Bryant

Goodman

2004

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…In this sense, the guests often highly regarded Madeleine's role and Kiyana Wraps work for its "creativity" and, most of all, its "modernity" and "innovation" (Interview, 17 December 2016). Kiyana Wraps team has created a diasporic commodity culture of elaboration which embodies and mobilizes diverse "multicultural imaginaries" (Kahn 1995;Cook, Crang, and Thorpe 1999). During the event, the headwrap cultural practice became a fundamental process through which diasporic hybrid identities and multiple be-longings were constructed and sustained.…”

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Transcultural body spaces: re-inventing and performing headwrap practice among young Congolese women in London

Morsiani

2018

African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal

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“…Nor does it inevitably involve the appropriation of ethnic forms constructed as 'authentic' through being located as exterior to the operations of commodity culture. Rather, as in the case discussed here, commodity culture can mobilize varied ways of thinking about cultural differencevaried 'multicultural imaginaries' (Kahn, 1995: 108;Cook et al, 1999). Indeed, to put the case rather more strongly, it is a field within which creative work can be done on fashioning those imaginaries of cultural difference and ethnicity.…”

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Fashioning ethnicities

Dwyer

Crang

2002

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This article discusses the entanglement of commerce and culture in the production of ethnicized commodities. Drawing on a case study of fashion label Ghulam Sakina and its designer Liaqat Rasul, we explore how he engages with a notion of 'multicultural' as both sociological, aesthetic and commercial. We argue that commodification is not something done to pre-existing ethnicities and ethnic subjects, but is a process through which ethnicities are reproduced and in which ethnic subjects actively engage with broader discourses and institutions. We conclude by arguing that commodity culture does not inevitably result in the production of superficial, thin and bland ethnic differentiations. Nor does it inevitably involve the appropriation of ethnic forms constructed as 'authentic'. Rather, our case study suggests that commodity culture can mobilize varied 'multicultural imaginaries'.KEYWORDS British Asian q commodity culture q ethnicity q fashion q multicultural

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Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food

Cited by 31 publications

References 16 publications

Consuming narratives: the political ecology of ‘alternative’ consumption

Consuming narratives: the political ecology of ‘alternative’ consumption

Transcultural body spaces: re-inventing and performing headwrap practice among young Congolese women in London

Fashioning ethnicities

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