Books
|
Buy Now
The Global Japanese Restaurant - Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics (Paperback)
Loot Price: R882
Discovery Miles 8 820
|
|
The Global Japanese Restaurant - Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics (Paperback)
Series: Food in Asia and the Pacific
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world,
Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational
culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and
capital, Japanese cuisine spread and adapted to international
tastes. But this expansion is also entangled in culinary politics,
ranging from authenticity claims and status competition among
restaurateurs and consumers to societal racism, immigration
policies, and soft power politics that have shaped the transmission
and transformation of Japanese cuisine. Such politics has involved
appropriation, oppression, but also cooperation across ethnic
lines. Ultimately, the restaurant is a continually reinvented
imaginary of Japan represented in concrete form to consumers by
restaurateurs, cooks, and servers of varied nationalities and
ethnicities who act as cultural intermediaries. The Global Japanese
Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics uses an
innovative global perspective and rich ethnographic data on six
continents to fashion a comprehensive account of the creation and
reception of the "global Japanese restaurant" in the modern world.
Drawing heavily on untapped primary sources in multiple languages,
this book centers on the stories of Japanese migrants in the first
half of the twentieth century, and then on non-Japanese chefs and
restaurateurs from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australasia, and the
Americas whose mobilities, since the mid-1900s, who have been
reshaping and spreading Japanese cuisine. The narrative covers a
century and a half of transnational mobilities, global imaginaries,
and culinary politics at different scales. It shifts the spotlight
of Japanese culinary globalization from the "West" to refocus the
story on Japan’s East Asian neighbors and highlights the growing
role of non-Japanese actors (chefs, restaurateurs, suppliers,
corporations, service staff) since the 1980s. These essays explore
restaurants as social spaces, creating a readable and compelling
history that makes original contributions to Japan studies, food
studies, and global studies. The transdisciplinary framework will
be a pioneering model for combining fieldwork and archival research
to analyze the complexities of culinary globalization.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|