“Growing foods from home”: food production, migrants and the changing cultural landscapes of gardens and allotments

Gerodetti, Natalia; Foster, Sally

doi:10.1080/01426397.2015.1074169

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“…Assisting by the use of technology like the mobile phone, which not only makes P1 easily able to learn about her parents' living situations, but also helps her manage the relations with her Taiwanese family through distinct digital and online food-sharing behaviors. In short, these vegetables become a link between P1 and her family in Taiwan; moreover, her online food-sharing behaviors further make her "Taiwan corner" and home garden become an important transnational social space, further allowing her to construct a sense of "online togetherness" between her and family in Taiwan [43][44][45][46][47] (Fig. 1).…”

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Home food making, belonging, and identity negotiation in Belgian Taiwanese immigrant women’s everyday food practices

2020

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This article examines the experiences of (re)producing home food in the daily life and food practices of Belgian Taiwanese immigrant women. The research is based on ethnography-both online and offline-and qualitative semistructured interviews with seventeen Taiwanese immigrant women/housewives in Belgium. Participants' food practices involve buying, growing, making, and sharing food. Buying Taiwanese food ingredients presents a genuine challenge, as Chinese and Asian supermarkets in Belgium do not carry all Taiwanese food items. Consequently, many Taiwanese immigrant women and housewives in this study share similar experiences of growing specific foods in their home garden; moreover, by doing so, they also transform their gardens in their private homes into transnational social spaces, and thereby connect their previous lived experiences and homeland memories with their present living circumstances. Moreover, Taiwanese immigrant women like to prepare and cook food with their husband and children while imparting Taiwanese food and cultural values through personal stories. Furthermore, by organizing and regularly participating in activities involving sharing and eating food with other Taiwanese immigrant women, these foodsharing events and behaviors also become an important social networking strategy that allows them to make, expand, and cultivate friendships; in addition, food sharing activities also assist the participants to construct a collective social identity of being immigrant mothers/housewives in a foreign land. However, what is meant by "Taiwanese" food varies substantially between participants, as do the associated emotional and ethnic meanings. Several things were stated to account for the taste of Taiwanese food, such as using certain condiments or the Ta Tung rice cooker. Equally diverse is the personal attachment of ethnonational identity toward the notion of home food, as discussions of childhood memories, ethnonational identity negotiation, and cultural markers are accompanied by critical reflection on the social constructed nature of home/ethnic foods in the migration contexts.

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Home food making, belonging, and identity negotiation in Belgian Taiwanese immigrant women’s everyday food practices

2020

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“…Courgette is cultivated all over the world as different varieties and ecotypes well adapted to diverse climates and environments [47]. Zucchini requires plentiful bees for pollination.…”

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Ecotype-Level Genetic Biodiversity of Five Italian Traditional Crops

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Italy displays a high level of agrobiodiversity due to its diversified pedoclimatic zones. The Administrative Region of Campania includes several and divergent biomes, occurring close to each other. In fact, the distance between a sea level environment and that of high mountains can be less than 20 km. These environmental conditions allow the cultivation of many different crops and vegetables, represented by diverse ecotypes and varieties that are well adapted to the distribution range where they have been selected and grown. Efforts to maintain and further increase biodiversity in farming systems require a better understanding of the existing diversity created by traditional farming practices. The aim of our study was to identify and molecularly characterize several ecotypes belonging to five horticultural species commonly cultivated in Campania. In particular, we analysed five ecotypes of maize, two of garlic, four of onion, one of escarole, and two of courgette by means of simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers in order to evaluate their level of genetic biodiversity. The results reveal, for the first time, the high genetic biodiversity of horticultural ecotypes of the Campania Region. This feature is very important to improve the quality and productivity of agroecosystems.

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“…In recent years, a growing body of work has begun to discuss the relations between food production and identity (Gerodetti and Foster 2015). The term ‘farmer identity’ can be conceptualised in many aspects in terms of different meanings attached to it.…”

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New Farmer Identity: The Emergence of a Post‐Productivist Agricultural Regime in China

Xie

2020

Sociologia Ruralis

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The back‐to‐the‐land migration has become an emerging phenomenon in the developing countries over recent years. In this context, more and more people go to the countryside to practice peasant‐like agriculture, which gives rise to the ‘repeasantisation’. This research aims to understand the relations between new farmer identity and an emerging agricultural regime in recent years in China. It investigates how the new farmer identity is (re)constructed in their interactions with organic farming. Drawing on identity theory and concepts of ‘post‐productivism’ and ‘new peasantry’, empirical evidence shows that by performing a new agricultural regime, farmer identity has been redefined. On the one hand, the new farmer identity is shaped by their farm as a ‘significant symbol’, and is maintained and reinforced by their interactions with the farm and consumers. On the other hand, the new farmer identity is contested by common social thoughts of ‘farmer’. However, they fashion new boundaries to differentiate themselves from traditional farmers with stereotypes and elite discourses. Contributing to the post‐productivism debates, this research argues that the shifting meanings of farmer and farming in this new agricultural movement show the emergence of a post‐productivist agricultural regime in China.

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“Growing foods from home”: food production, migrants and the changing cultural landscapes of gardens and allotments

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Cited by 24 publications

References 29 publications

Home food making, belonging, and identity negotiation in Belgian Taiwanese immigrant women’s everyday food practices

Home food making, belonging, and identity negotiation in Belgian Taiwanese immigrant women’s everyday food practices

Ecotype-Level Genetic Biodiversity of Five Italian Traditional Crops

New Farmer Identity: The Emergence of a Post‐Productivist Agricultural Regime in China

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