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Eating Together - Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore (Hardcover)
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Eating Together - Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore (Hardcover)
Series: Rowman & Littlefield Studies in Food and Gastronomy
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Accepting the challenge of rethinking connections of food, space
and identity within everyday spaces of "public" eating in Malaysia
and Singapore, the authors enter street stalls, hawker centers,
markets, cafes, restaurants, "food streets," and "ethnic"
neighborhoods to offer a broader picture of the meaning of eating
in public places. The book creates a strong sense of the ways
different people live, eat, work, and relax together, and traces
negotiations and accommodations in these dynamics. The motif of
rojak (Malay, meaning "mixture"), together with Ien Ang's evocative
"together-in-difference," enables the analysis to move beyond the
immediacy of street eating with its moments of exchange and
remembering. Ultimately, the book traces the political tensions of
"different" people living together, and the search for home and
identity in a world on the move. Each of the chapters designates a
different space for exploring these cultures of "mixedness" and
their contradictions-whether these involve "old" and "new" forms of
sociality, struggles over meanings of place, or frissons of
pleasure and risk in eating "differently." Simply put, Eating
Together is about understanding complex forms of multiculturalism
in Malaysia and Singapore through the mind, tongue, nose, and eyes.
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