Globalization, Localization, and Food Culture: Perceived Roles of Social and Cultural Capital in Healthy Child Feeding in Japan

Mining spatial patterns of food culture in China using restaurant POI data

“…A restaurant can be understood as a physical element of a food culture landscape and viewed as a clue to understanding the regional food culture. Some cultural geographers believed that globality and locality should be considered an explanatory framework for analyzing events (Goto et al, 2011;Knox & Marston, 2015). Radical cultural geospatial researchers on globalization and localization believe that the trend of modern globalization is accelerating the homogenization of global culture, and this process will accelerate further in the future (Bissell, 2019;Muller & Mayers, 2017).…”

“…Food consumption is an economic activity and a cultural phenomenon. Economic, social, and cultural globalization have had a significant impact on local food cultures (Goto, Ominami, Song, Murayama, & Wolff, 2011;Tricarico & Geissler, 2017). China attaches considerable importance to food culture; however, China also covers a vast territory and has a multi-ethnic population.…”