Foodscaping Asia I: Scaping the Remote

Panel Convenor(s)

• RW

  Robert Winstanley-Chesters

  University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Panel Chair(s)

• NC

  Niamh Calway

  University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Presenter(s)

• LK

  Loli Kim

  University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• PH

  Po-Yi Hung

  National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• XL

  Xiaoxuan Lu

  The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• HH

  Heesun Hwang

  Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

As a part of the Foodscaping Asia research venture and forthcoming Bloomsbury book series, we are bringing together a panel of interdisciplinary scholars who, following a cross-sectional format of macro-, micro-, and nano-scapes, each hold a magnifying glass to the layers of discourse in remote Asian food environments. These snapshots emphasize discourses that exist under extreme limitations, such as on islands inhabited by single occupants,villages lacking accessibility to the metropolitan and which emphasize the traditional, and those in locations lacking accessibility from outsiders. Foodscaping embarks on original fieldwork, in which the omnipresent multimodal discourses of food are deconstructed, revealing elusive cultural semantics for which a bespoke interdisciplinary approach is indispensable. 

Presenters on the remote foodscaping panel delve into these macro-scapes - into the islands, deserts, jungles, and countryside villages - zooming into micro-scapes such as particular indigenous communities, island villages, or mountain groups, within which specific nano-scapes, such as the kitchen of Kye Gompa monastery in Tibet that sits upon a hill at an altitude of 4,166 meters, the isolated eating of the limited residents of the Indonesian archipelago Raja Ampat, daytime cooking and eating amongst only women at the traditional matriarchal village of Lijiazui in the highlands of Sichuan, on the fishing boat of Japanese whalers, or among the Korean haenyeo of Jeju diving for abalone, are multimodally deconstructed and contextualized according to the presenter’s expertise. By drilling into each layer of a given macro-scape, presenters will essentially untangle the spaghetti junction of cultural semantics existing in their chosen food environment, simultaneously presenting the bespoke model for addressing that environment and thereby contributing both in corpus and methodology to studies of Asian food.

Presentations:

• 11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

  Foodscaping Remote Asia: Framework and Methodology Through the Foodscapes of Geumneung's Haenyeo
  

  Presenter: Loli Kim – University of Oxford
• 11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

  Making China's Coffee Capital: Core-Periphery Regionalism of a Small Frontier City in Southwest China
  

  Presenter: Po-Yi Hung – National Taiwan University
• 11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

  Bottled Water and Rice Wine: The Commodification of Water in the Tumen/Tuman River Region
  

  Presenter: Xiaoxuan Lu – The University of Hong Kong
• 11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)

  Cabbage in Flight: Conserving Native Seeds in Monocultural Foodscapes in South Korea
  

  Presenter: Heesun Hwang – Seoul National University