意义、权力与再物质化:食物消费地理新进展

食物是人地关系的天然纽带。自伯克利学派开始关注食品消费研究起,食物研究在国外已属发展较成熟的领域,食物消费研究更是新近地理学关注的热点之一,与家庭研究、性别地理研究关联密切。食物消费主流研究很大部分关涉意义诠释和文化建构,包括文化和身份认同、意义空间塑造、味道与边界、旅游体验、地方指向等命题。食物消费研究也正在经历和吸收一些变化中的研究思潮,特别是警惕过度的"文化转向",重视有关政治地理和再物质化/物质地理的理论主张等。这种研究取向的变化及多元化趋势,作为新文化地理研究的一个缩影,正逐渐对国内食物消费地理研究产生影响。

MEANING,POWER AND REMATERIALIZING: PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY OF FOOD CONSUMPTION

Food is an inherent tie between people and place. It was Berkeley School who started to research into geography of food consumption and since then food studies have been developing maturely and, specifically, geography of food consumption draws vast interests among new geography, with intimate connection to family studies and gender geography. This subject is going through some changing research perspectives, such as culture turn, consumption turn, feminist ideas, and we must be cautious of overemphasizing of culture-turn and take political geography and rematerializing/material geography into account. As an epitome of new cultural geography, these research perspectives are going to pose impact on domestic studies on food consumption which are currently facing the situation of underdevelopment and under-theorization. According to the main themes-meaning, power and rematerializing, six parts have been carefully identified:food consumption and identity, which gives implication that there is still much room for investigating the meanings of food in terms of gender, race; food consumption and shaping space, indicating that space adds an interesting dimension to food consumption; politics in food consumption, which tells that complicated politics vastly immerges into food phenomenon, particularly into food chains and domestic domain; local food consumption, the clue that insists on place-based food while rejecting the meaning lost and damage of caused by factory-made food; taste and food culture boundaries, implicating that true or real feelings and senses of the body when we tasting the food must be carefully investigated; food consumption in tourism, one that analyses the tourist's food behavior and identity which could be analyzed through the common ideology among their society and culture. Food consumption in daily life can be investigated via the social and culture meaning/identity of food, especially in developing countries.