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Eating at the Borders: Culinary Journeys

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This chapter takes as its point of departure the culinary landscapes of two shopping streets — King Street in Newtown, Sydney, and Green Lanes in Haringey, London. Within these streets’ differing geographies, the chapter maps everyday practices of food shopping, cooking and eating as spaces for negotiating meanings of home, ethnicity, cultural belonging and exchange. These negotiations trace the outlines of mainstream, Western identity. At the same time, they blur traditional boundaries, suggesting subtle movements between and within established identity categories (McDowell 1999).

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  1. University of South Australia, Australia

    Jean Duruz (Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies)

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  1. Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Australia

    Amanda Wise (Senior Research Fellow) (Senior Research Fellow)

  2. Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia

    Selvaraj Velayutham (Lecturer in Sociology) (Lecturer in Sociology)

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Duruz, J. (2009). Eating at the Borders: Culinary Journeys. In: Wise, A., Velayutham, S. (eds) Everyday Multiculturalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244474_6

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