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Sukhmani Khorana - Tastes and Politics of Inter-Cultural Food in Australia, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Tastes and Politics of Inter-Cultural Food in Australia

Av Sukhmani Khorana

Del i serien Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies

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In the 21st century, an accelerated pace of global movements of people, goods, capital, technology and ideas has led to ambivalence regarding cultural identity for individuals, as well as collectives like neighbourhoods and cities. While the preparation, availability and consumption of diverse foods have become symbolic of the very openness of a place, there are concerns that this is only reflective of a superficial and consumerist form of middle class cosmopolitanism. Using food-oriented case studies centred on Australian cities and media, Bonding Over Food argues for a processual understanding of cosmopolitanism. Such an approach helps us understand various kinds of social bonds formed over food as ‘convivial’ practices that are potentially ethical and/or reflexive as opposed to being driven by ‘othering’ discourses.
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Sukhmani Khorana is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. She is the editor of a Routledge anthology titled, Crossover Cinema (2013). Sukhmani has published extensively on diasporic cultures, multi-platform refugee narratives, and the politics of empathy. She ? holds a current ARC Linkage grant (with the Museum of Victoria and The Australian Centre for the Moving Image) examining the role of television in the experience of migration to Australia.

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Food has always been central to how we live together and, as this book acutely shows, how we become more than who we are. Eschewing a superficial white, middle class cosmopolitanism for an understanding of cosmopolitanisation as process, Sukhmani Khorana cleverly examines, across a range of sites, the way food is central to everyday intercultural politics – and gender and class – in Australia. This offers, she argues, the possibility for a critical, resistant conviviality and a more ethical way of living in diversity. This is a must read for all cosmo-multiculturalists!

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