Traditional Food Knowledge in a Globalized World: Mediation and Mediatization Perceived by Tswana Women in South Africa

2018 ◽  
pp. 129-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Claasen ◽  
Shingairai Chigeza
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Food Knowledge ◽  
Globalized World

scholarly journals Reviving Traditional Food Knowledge Through Food Festivals. The Case of the Pink Asparagus Festival in Mezzago, Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele F. Fontefrancesco ◽  
Dauro M. Zocchi
Keyword(s):  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
The Past ◽  
Food Knowledge ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship

The article investigates the link between food festivals and traditional food knowledge and explores the role played by tourist events in disseminating local agricultural and gastronomic knowledge. This article presents the ethnographic case of the Pink Asparagus Festival in Mezzago in Italy, analyzing how the festival supported the continuation of crop production and its associated traditional knowledge in the village. In the face of a decline of asparagus production, the article highlights the role of the festival in fostering a revival of local food knowledge, which is also able to embrace modernization, at the same time maintaining a strong sense of the past and Mezzago's legacy. Thus, the article suggests that festivals are not just events aimed at commodifying local knowledge, but can be important tools to refresh and maintain local expertise, which is vital and pressing in the context of modern society, and strengthen and expand the relationship between members of the community, thus converting the festival into an endeavor to foster sociocultural sustainability.

scholarly journals Exploring culinary heritage practices among the younger Chetti generations in Melaka

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Hanis Mohd Fikri ◽  
Ahmad Esa Abdul Rahman ◽  
Ismayaza Noh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Ethnic Population ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Food Knowledge ◽  
Sociocultural Development ◽  
Minority Ethnic

AbstractChetti or Peranakan Indian cuisine is a historical creolized minority ethnic cuisine of Malaysia that carries the gene of the country’s multi-ethnic sociocultural development. Its culinary heritage is a unique blend of South Indian, Malay, and Nyonya cuisines. Despite its unique role in symbolizing Malaysia’s status as a multicultural nation, little is documented about the ethnic cuisine. The fact that the Chetti ethnic population is extremely small and continually shrinking means that the future of Chetti cuisine is uncertain. In this context, this paper aims to investigate the role of the younger Chetti generation in reviving the ethnic culinary heritage and the transmission of Chetti traditional food knowledge (TFK) in the contemporary setting. There is evidence that the younger Chetti generation are straying from their culture’s traditional cuisine due to migration, modernization, and urbanization, among other reasons. There are concerns that this may lead to the extinction of Chetti culinary heritage. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight younger Chetti participants in the Chetti village of Gajah Berang, Melaka. The qualitative data obtained from the interviews was analyzed using thematic analysis and revealed four relevant themes. The study found that the younger Chetti generation is relatively knowledgeable about their ethnic culinary heritage but overall unskilled. Whilst they predominantly learn about their culture’s cuisine from their mothers, it was found that Chetti ceremonies and festivals, as well as participation in other cultural events, also contribute to TFK transfer among the younger Chetti generation.

scholarly journals A South African perspective on mutual legal assistance and extradition in a globalized world

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Murdoch Watney
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
South African ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
The South ◽  
Mutual Legal Assistance ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
Criminal Conduct ◽  
Globalized World

This contribution focuses on the modalities of mutual legal assistance and extradition from a South African perspective. The question is posed whether South Africa has succeeded to establish the required framework as a fully fledged member of the international community to make a positive contribution in the fields of mutual legal assistance and extradition subsequent to its international political isolation during the apartheid era. Although the international community derives substantial benefit from a borderless global world, it has as a result also to deal with the negative impact of globalization on international crime. Physical and/or electronic crimes are increasingly committed across borders and may be described as borderless, but law enforcement (combating, investigation and prosecution of crime) is still very much confined to the borders of a state. Criminal networks have taken advantage of the opportunities resulting from the dramatic changes in world politics, business, technology, communications and the explosion in international travel and effectively utilize these opportunities to avoid and hamper law enforcement investigations. As a sovereign state has control over its own territory it also implies that states should not interfere with each other’s domestic affairs. The correct and acceptable procedure would be for a state (requesting state) to apply to another state (requested state) for co-operation in the form of mutual legal assistance regarding the gathering of evidence and/or extradition of the perpetrator. Co-operation between states are governed by public international law between the requesting and requested state and the domestic law of the requested state. The South African legislature has increasingly provided for extraterritorial jurisdiction of South African courts in respect of organized crime and terrorism. It does however appear that existing criminal justice responses are experiencing challenges to meet the demands of sophisticated international criminal conduct. Mutual legal assistance and extradition provisions may show that the world is becoming smaller for fugitives and criminals, but the processes are far from expeditious and seamless. An overview of the South African law pertaining to mutual legal assistance and extradition indicates that the South African legislative framework and policies as well as international treaties make sufficient provision to render international assistance in respect of mutual legal assistance and extradition. The role of the courts in upholding the rule of law and protecting the constitutionally enshrined bill of rights, is indicative of the important function that the judiciary fulfills in this regard. It is important that extradition is not only seen as the function of the executive as it also involves the judiciary. It appears that South Africa has displayed the necessary commitment to normalize its international position since 1994 and to fulfill its obligations in a globalized world by reaching across borders in an attempt to address international criminal conduct.

scholarly journals Rempah-Rempah Indonesian Traditional Food Flavor toward Modern Functional Food and Herbal Medicine

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Muhammad Sasmito Djati ◽  
Yuyun Ika Christina
Keyword(s):  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Functional Food ◽  
Morinda Citrifolia ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Food Component ◽  
Litsea Cubeba ◽  
Daily Food ◽  
Future Improvement ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Globalized World

Background: Rempah-rempah are endemic spices from Nusantara (South East Asia Archipelago’s), these spices are traditional food flavor Nusantara for centuries. Rempah-rempah were traditionally processed such as: boiled, fried, distillated, fermented, extracted, and fresh crushed mixture with others food component. These food were served for daily food such as main food, beverage, hot drink, snacks, crackers, etc.  Nowadays, modern and westernized synthetic ingredients and food flavors are rapidly substitute traditional food. Such habit have been invaded to the all of the globalized world. Conversely, many Indonesian researchers have been investigated that rempah-rempah have rich of phyto-pharmaceuticals components as herbal medicine or functional food. Phyto-pharmaceutical components in rempah-rempah have been investigated o potential role as immunomodulatory agent, antioxidants, analgesics, digestive, carminative, and antibacterial, as well as others remedial action for some physiological effects [1,2]. There were, Indonesian Gingers (Zingiberaceae), Katuk (Sauropus androgunus (L.) Merr), Andaliman (Zanthoxylum acanthopodicum), Antarasa (Litsea cubeba), Kecobang (Nicolai speciosa Horan), Tapak Liman (Elephantropus scaber)[1], Kedondong laut (Polyscias obtusa)[1], Mengkudu (Morinda citrifolia), Kapulaga (Amomum cardamomum), Sereh (Cymbopogon fleuopsus), Sirsak (Anona muricata), and Kunyit (Curcuma sp.). Almost all of rempah-rempah have not clearly investigated yet, only traditionally understanding have been known such as preventing for many degenerative metabolism and infectious diseases. Others problem are packaging, canning, preserving and others possibilities for marketing have been needed for future improvement of rempah-rempah as Indonesian traditional flavor and functional food. Keywords: Functional food, Indonesian flavor, rempah-rempah and spices.

Traditional Food Knowledge (TFK) of Malay festive foods

2012 ◽  
pp. 365-369
Author(s):  
Mohd Sharif ◽  
Mohd Zahari ◽  
Noriza Ishak ◽  
Rosmaliza Muhammad ◽  
Azmir Noor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Food ◽  
Food Knowledge

scholarly journals The Transmission Modes of Malay Traditional Food Knowledge within Generations

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 79-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norazmir Md. Nor ◽  
Mohd Shazali Md. Sharif ◽  
Mohd Salehuddin Mohd Zahari ◽  
Hannita Mohd Salleh ◽  
Noriza Isha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Food ◽  
Transmission Modes ◽  
Food Knowledge

scholarly journals SWS Distinguished Feminist Lecture: Feminist Politcal Economy in a Globalized World: African Women Migrants in South Africa and the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 765-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Johnson Osirim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Women ◽  
Current Phase ◽  
African Migrant ◽  
The Many ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The Impact

Based on research conducted over the past two decades, this lecture examines how the feminist political economy perspective can aid us in understanding the experiences of two populations of African women: Zimbabwean women cross-border traders in South Africa and African immigrant women in the northeastern United States. Feminist political economy compels us to explore the impact of the current phase of globalization as well as the roles of intersectionality and agency in the lives of African women. This research stems from fieldwork conducted in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, as well as in metropolitan Boston and Philadelphia. Despite the many challenges that African migrant women face in these different venues, they continue to demonstrate much creativity and resilience and, in the process, they contribute to community development.

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