Bringing the countryside to the city: practices and imaginations of the rural in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

10.1177/0042098014563031Urban Studies532324-33

Buddhist Vegetarian Restaurants and the Changing Meanings of Meat in Urban China

This article charts the changing meanings of meat in contemporary urban China and explores the role played by Buddhist vegetarian restaurants in shaping these changes. In Kunming, meat has long been a sign of prosperity and status. Its accessibility marked the successes of the economic reforms. Yet Kunmingers were increasingly concerned about excessive meat consumption and about the safety and quality of the meat supply. Buddhist vegetarian restaurants provided spaces where people could share meat-free meals and discuss and develop their concerns about meat-eating. While similar to and influenced by secular, Western vegetarianisms, the central role of Buddhism was reflected in discourses on karmic retribution for taking life and in a non-confrontational approach that sought to accommodate these discourses with the importance of meat in Chinese social life. Finally, the vegetarian restaurants spoke to middle-class projects of self-cultivation, and by doing so potentially challenged associations between meat-eating and social status

Roasted pigs and bao dumplings: Festive food and imagined transnational identity in Chinese-Vietnamese festivals

10.1111/j.1467-8373.2005.00284.xAsia Pacific Viewpoint463281-29

Vietnamese new year rice cakes: Iconic festive dishes and contested national identity

Ethnology442167-18

Food in tourism - Attraction and impediment

10.1016/j.annals.2004.02.003Annals of Tourism Research314755-77

The Barossa tourism region: The catch 22 effect of a near periphery location

Thompson, MM ORCiD: 0000-0002-7909-3523This chapter examines the development of tourism in the Barossa tourism region of South Australia. Its close proximity to Adelaide, the South Australian state capital, has contributed to a range of location-related challenges that have placed limits on the scope for further development of the Barossa’s tourism industry. Location, local culture and cultural heritage, transport technology, boundary issues, changing agricultural outputs and changing consumer demand constitute the key variables that have influenced the structure and operation of the region’s tourism industry. The problems generated by proximity to the city have been compounded by the emergence of a view that the Barossa is more useful to the state’s tourism industry as an add-on day trip for holidays in Adelaide rather than as a standalone overnight destination that is able to attract interstate and overseas tourists. The chapter draws on the theoretical perspectives of periphery and landscapes to identify issues associated with a destination that is located on a near periphery for its major day trip source market but on a far periphery for overnight source market