Category Archives: Food & Consumption

Calcutta/Kolkata – A Personal Memoir

Posted on March 14, 2011 by aranyo.aarjan

A typical afternoon scene for the old Calcutta
In the last week of December 2009, just as the whole of Europe froze over, like a migratory bird I headed out to warmer climes. Yet my destination, tropical as it is by location, was Calcutta (known officially now as Kolkata, a ‘reclaiming’ of pre-colonial city names), not [...]

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Curry and Identity

Posted on March 26, 2010 by valentin
fishcurry

 
The centrality of food and consumption for most issues of social and cultural concern can, to my opinion, not be over-emphasized. Food practices are constitutive of social identities and cultural differentiation. “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are”, a phrase originally coined in the 1820s by Brillat-Savarin, a French [...]

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Consumer Lifestyles and Economic Growth

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Tim
prosperity-without-growth

The current economy is fundamentally dependent on growth and its correlate: consumerism. The results of this form of capitalist expansion in the context of globalization continue to pose serious challenges to human well-being and destroy the environment. An ever expanding economy that relies on growing consumption (and therefore fosters cultures of consumerism) is a [...]

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How Food Shapes our Cities

Posted on November 5, 2009 by admin

Food pretty much lies at the heart of our human existence. Yet, it seems  for many people that it takes a heart attack to recognize this importance.  But the impact of food on people goes much beyond its nutritional  dimension. The production, distribution and consumption of foods shape  cultures, technologies, institutions, in short the history [...]

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