Critical Food Studies in Asia A Machine-Generated Literature Overview

This book offers a curated collection of scholarship that significantly contributes to the shaping of Critical Food Studies in Asia. Drawing on a machine-generated literature review of select Springer publications, it highlights the critical turn in Food Studies rooted in the recognition that everyday social discourses surrounding food embody complex interrelations of power dynamics, identity politics, and ideological underpinnings. The book maps out key conceptual frameworks, methods, and methodologies from various disciplines, offering insights into the understanding and analysis of foodways and practices. The editors’ introductions accompanying the structured reviews open up discussions on prominent trajectories, frameworks, and future research scope in the area, making it an essential reference point for scholars, educators, and students alike. It also initiates deliberations on the complexities of working within a heterogeneous space like Asia, while exploring its potential to evolve newer frameworks and alternative knowledge systems to critically engage with gastronomic practices.

The auto-summaries have been generated by a recursive clustering algorithm via the Dimensions Auto-summarizer by Digital Science. The editors of this book selected which SN content should be auto-summarized and decided its order of appearance. Please be aware that these are extractive auto-summaries, which consist of original sentences, but are not representative of its original paper, since we do not show the full length of the publication. Please note that only published SN content is represented here, and that machine-generated books are still at an experimental stage.

1. Food and Identities.- 2. Food Policies and Socio-political Movements.- 3. Food Narratives and Culinary Histories.- 4. Food Crisis, Security, and Sustainability.- 5. Food Fads, Digitality, and Culinary Tourism.- 6. Foodways, Rituals, and Festivals.- 7. Curricular Practices and Pedagogies in Critical Food Studies in Asia.

Arya Parakkate Vijayaraghavan is Assistant Professor at TAPMI Bengaluru, part of Manipal Institute of Higher Education, India and holds a PhD from EFLU, India. Her works span Critical Food Studies, Education, Intersectionality Studies, and Cultural Studies and is currently involved in an archival project on transnational migration of food practices.

Dishari Chattaraj is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India, where she leads the Education and Critical Food Studies lab. She completed her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and has been hosted as a Fulbright Fellow at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.