Exploring the Culinary Landscape: Visual, Digital, and Public Dimensions of Food Studies: 2 (Food and Cultures from the Global South) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1803747846 ISBN 13: 9781803747842

Publisher: Peter Lang, 2026

Synopsis

Food as a tangible construct could be appreciated in terms of its organoleptic aspects and also from the premise of social contexts, cultural systems and spaces as well. Kitchen, cooking utensils, and dining areas are not mere physical places but also the site of cultural production and exchange where meanings are invented and negotiated. Thus, food and its significance as both cultural artefact and a political space of discourse speak to multiple histories, identities, and social relations that compose this very essential element in the weave of human experience. This anthology of essays may broadly be classified under three heads; Food representations in Visual Media, Food and Digital Performance, and Food and the Public Spaces. Here we discuss essays on real culinary spaces and how they are translated into visual mediums like series or cinema. Digital media representations are also investigated where food vlogs and social media platforms are studied. It also deals with how the real spaces like restaurants and kitchen objects rearticulate one’s experience especially in a kitchen. The collection also contains auto-ethnographic essays on caste and religion.

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About the Author

Gigy J. Alex is with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Dept of Space, Valiamala, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Her areas of interest include Food and Cultural Studies, and Science Fiction. She loves teaching and actively engages in culinary research from the cultural studies perspective.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1803747846
• ISBN 13: 9781803747842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Alex Gigy J.