2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
"Traveling Cuisines" in Asia: Sociological inquiries into culinary contact zones and culinary soft power
| Project/Area Number |
22402040
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
FARRER James 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (40317508)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YOSHINO Kosaku 上智大学, 総合人間科学部, 教授 (50192810)
WANK David 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (60245793)
ASSMAN Stephanie 秋田大学, 教育文化学部, 准教授 (10400441)
KOIDO Akihiro 一橋大学, 社会(科)学研究科, 教授 (60250396)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 社会学 / 文化人類学 / グローバル化 / ソフト・パワー / コンタクト・ゾーン / 食文化 |
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| Research Abstract |
This project was a sociological investigation into the cuisines of East Asia as they traveled across borders. Theoretically, the project focused on the idea of culinary politics, including ideas such as contact zones and culinary soft power. Empirically, it involved multi-sited and cross-border sociological fieldwork to uncover the transnational pathways and the cultural politics of national, regional and urban cuisines. As cuisines cross borders they become places where diverse actors compete and cooperate in defining the contents of cuisines, or culinary contact zones. Cuisines also become the focus of the local, regional and national cultural politics of food, or culinary soft power. Each member of the team focused on one example of a "traveling cuisine" tracing out these various levels of culinary politics.
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