Abstract：Food is an inherent tie between people and place. It was Berkeley School who started to research into geography of food consumption and since then food studies have been developing maturely and, specifically, geography of food consumption draws vast interests among new geography, with intimate connection to family studies and gender geography. This subject is going through some changing research perspectives, such as culture turn, consumption turn, feminist ideas, and we must be cautious of overemphasizing of culture-turn and take political geography and rematerializing/material geography into account. As an epitome of new cultural geography, these research perspectives are going to pose impact on domestic studies on food consumption which are currently facing the situation of underdevelopment and under-theorization. According to the main themes-meaning, power and rematerializing, six parts have been carefully identified:food consumption and identity, which gives implication that there is still much room for investigating the meanings of food in terms of gender, race; food consumption and shaping space, indicating that space adds an interesting dimension to food consumption; politics in food consumption, which tells that complicated politics vastly immerges into food phenomenon, particularly into food chains and domestic domain; local food consumption, the clue that insists on place-based food while rejecting the meaning lost and damage of caused by factory-made food; taste and food culture boundaries, implicating that true or real feelings and senses of the body when we tasting the food must be carefully investigated; food consumption in tourism, one that analyses the tourist's food behavior and identity which could be analyzed through the common ideology among their society and culture. Food consumption in daily life can be investigated via the social and culture meaning/identity of food, especially in developing countries.
林俊帆, 林耿. 意义、权力与再物质化:食物消费地理新进展[J]. 人文地理, 2014, 29(6): 40-46.
LIN Jun-fan, LIN Geng. MEANING, POWER AND REMATERIALIZING: PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY OF FOOD CONSUMPTION. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2014, 29(6): 40-46.
