Start Date
2020 12:00 AM
Abstract
By using personal interviewing, participatory observation, and field research out of different years 2014,2015 and 2016, the research contributes to providing descriptive aspects of demolition and relocation studies in Chinese urbanization, apart from existing literature mainly covering the fields of politics and economy. This transition remodels the space, especially interactions in the neighborhood. Their food-ways also undergo transitions both at the scope of family and community level. Before relocation, local people lived a self-supporting lifestyle with a small amount of replenishing necessities from markets, where they farmed abundant vegetables and food crops by themselves. Later, they are more dependent on supermarkets and local markets after relocation since food from the garden is insufficient. They continue to exploit fragmental farmlands and maintain previous dietary habits by gardening vegetables on their own and sharing home-grown food with new neighbors in order to fit into migration and urban life. The process of urbanization is not just farmers turning into citizens, but also the renewal of life. People develop a relationship with food and land by farming and produce interactions with families and villages via food. Food-ways play a fundamental role in social interaction and become the new field of knowing the impacts of urbanization.
Keywords
rural areas, transformation
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Recommended Citation
Chen, Yaolin (2020). "The changes and adaptation of food-ways with residential relocation during urbanization in Southeast China," Urban Food Systems Symposium. https://newprairiepress.org/ufss/2020/proceedings/25
The changes and adaptation of food-ways with residential relocation during urbanization in Southeast China
By using personal interviewing, participatory observation, and field research out of different years 2014,2015 and 2016, the research contributes to providing descriptive aspects of demolition and relocation studies in Chinese urbanization, apart from existing literature mainly covering the fields of politics and economy. This transition remodels the space, especially interactions in the neighborhood. Their food-ways also undergo transitions both at the scope of family and community level. Before relocation, local people lived a self-supporting lifestyle with a small amount of replenishing necessities from markets, where they farmed abundant vegetables and food crops by themselves. Later, they are more dependent on supermarkets and local markets after relocation since food from the garden is insufficient. They continue to exploit fragmental farmlands and maintain previous dietary habits by gardening vegetables on their own and sharing home-grown food with new neighbors in order to fit into migration and urban life. The process of urbanization is not just farmers turning into citizens, but also the renewal of life. People develop a relationship with food and land by farming and produce interactions with families and villages via food. Food-ways play a fundamental role in social interaction and become the new field of knowing the impacts of urbanization.
