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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY  2022, Vol. 37 Issue (4): 32-38,74    DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2022.04.004
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HARD TO FIND A "FRESH" MEAL?RESEARCH ON PLACE MOBILITY AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
DAI Jun-cheng
School of Cultural and Communication, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081, China

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Abstract  The study of sustainable food systems has received increasing attention. Current research from a relationalist perspective has focused on the 'body', which is associated with food in the forward direction, but has neglected the 'place', which is associated with food in the backward direction. In this paper, we choose Luoyuan County in Fujian Province as a case study to analyse the changes in Luoyuan's food geography from the 1990s to the present, with the aim of investigating the mechanisms of place mobility on local food systems. The study finds that Luoyuan has changed from a local diet dominated by Fujian cuisine to a 'placeless' standard food, with a variety of cuisines co-existing. The 'freshness' that was once common in everyday life has become "hard to find". This change is due to the structural factors of "de-localisation" caused by industrialisation and urbanisation, as well as the "re- localisation" factors such as the return of enterprise to their homes for investment and the cross-local migration of Three Gorges migrants. One of its contributions is to fill the gap in the study of 'place mobility' and local sustainable food system. It also positions 'place' in a dynamic spatio-temporal context, rather than just as a cross-sectional factor at a particular time scale. Secondly, it is a reflection on the 'sustainability' of the food system, which depends not only on the structural dynamics of local mobility at different scales, but also on differentiated perceptions of place. The sustainability of the production-consumption food system cannot be used as a substitute for the individual's embodied perception of 'sustainability'. Thirdly, the case chosen for this paper is the researcher's hometown, and the adoption of a life-course-like participatory observation approach also carries a certain level of methodological inquiry.
Key wordsplace mobility      sustainable food systems      Min cuisine      Luoyuan     
Received: 08 February 2021     
PACS: K901.2  
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DAI Jun-cheng. HARD TO FIND A "FRESH" MEAL?RESEARCH ON PLACE MOBILITY AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2022, 37(4): 32-38,74.
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