Production and reconstruction of food cultural spaces from a glocalization perspective: Evidence from Yanji City

ABSTRACT

This study constructs a theoretical framework for the production and reconstruction of food cultural space from a glocalization perspective. Through a qualitative analysis, we analyse the practice and representation of food cultural space in Yanji City. The results show that food cultural spaces have evolved from commercial residential to open urban leisure consumption spaces through a leap from a quantitative to a qualitative change.It integrates fashionable cultural consumption elements into the optimisation and expression of urban space extension, thus achieving the spatial image of symbolic communication. As the representational space of residents’ daily life, the evolution of food cultural space is accompanied by capital multiplication, power cultivation, and class mobility, which play an important role in promoting urban space expansion and social structure renewal. The results enrich the research on food cultural space under the background of glocalisation and provide a reference for the sustainable development of urban cultural space.

KEYWORDS:

• Glocalization
• food cultural space
• production
• reconstruction
• China

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

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Funding

The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [41701164]

Notes on contributors

Tan Xueling

Tan Xueling is currently a joint master's student at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the School of Geography and Ocean Science of Yanbian University, with a research interest in social and cultural geography.

Li Yinhe

Li Yinhe is an associate professor in the School of Geography and Ocean Science at Yanbian University, with research interests in socio-cultural geography.

Li Yajuan

Li Yajuan is an associate professor at the College of Urban and Environmental Science, Central China Normal University, with research interests in tourism geography.

Yu Hu

Yu Hu is an associate researcher at the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, with research interests in tourism geography and tourism planning.