The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics Farrer James
The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics Farrer James With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. But this…
Specifikacia The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics Farrer James
The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics Farrer James
With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. But this expansion is also entangled in culinary politics, ranging from authenticity claims and status competition among restaurateurs and consumers to societal racism, immigration policies, and soft power politics that have shaped the transmission and transformation of Japanese cuisine. Through the transnational culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and capital, Japanese cuisine spread and adapted to international tastes.
Ultimately, the restaurant is a continually reinvented imaginary of Japan represented in concrete form to consumers by restaurateurs, cooks, and servers of varied nationalities and ethnicities who act as cultural intermediaries.The Global Such politics has involved appropriation, oppression, but also cooperation across ethnic lines.