Overview
- Analyses issues from a multidisciplinary perspective
- Discusses the distinctive methods of food education
- Covers the pre-modern and modern period of Japanese history
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This edited collection explores the historical dimensions, cultural practices, socio-economic mechanisms and political agendas that shape the notion of a national cuisine inside and outside of Japan. Japanese food is often perceived as pure, natural, healthy and timeless, and these words not only fuel a hype surrounding Japanese food and lifestyle worldwide, but also a domestic retro-movement that finds health and authenticity in ‘traditional’ ingredients, dishes and foodways. The authors in this volume bring together research from the fields of history, cultural and religious studies, food studies as well as political science and international relations, and aim to shed light on relevant aspects of culinary nationalism in Japan while unearthing the underlying patterns and processes in the construction of food identities.
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Inventing Japanese Food Identities
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Feeding the Nation: Japanese Food Identities in Times of Globalization
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Japanese Food Identities Inside-Out
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Agricultural Politics of Self-Sufficiency and Dependency
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Reviews
“This is the best volume dealing with the production and consumption of food in Japan that has been published to date.” (Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Global Food History, Vol. 4 (1), 2018) “An important and timely volume.” (Samuel Yamashita, Ponoma College, USA)
“Covering a wide range of topics from history to culture, from public policy to nationalism, and from social history to contemporary consumption trends, the essays herein offer much useful information on as well as analytical insights into the richness, heterogeneity, and creativity of Japanese foodways.” (Timothy Y. Tsu, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
“A very welcome addition to the growing scholarship on Japanese food.” (Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Leiden University, Netherlands)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andreas Niehaus is Head of the Department Languages and Cultures at Ghent University, Belgium. His research focuses on early-modern and modern Japanese body culture, sport history as well as cultural and national identities.
Tine Walravens is a Research Assistant at the Institute of Japanese Studies, Ghent University, Belgium. Her research is on the politics of food and food safety in East Asia, in particular Japanese consumer trust and food risk.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Feeding Japan
Book Subtitle: The Cultural and Political Issues of Dependency and Risk
Editors: Andreas Niehaus, Tine Walravens
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50553-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50552-7Published: 07 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84427-5Published: 03 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50553-4Published: 22 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 540
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Cultural Studies, Ethnicity Studies, History of Japan