中山大学旅游学院关于饮食文化地理的讲座通知

主讲：Dr. Alexandra Hughes

题目：Articulations of healthy food consumption by urban middle classes: insights from South Africa（城市中产阶级的健康食物消费：来自南非的启示）

项目来源：英国经济和社会研究委员会基金（Economic and Social Research Council， ESRC）国际合作项目“可持续消费、中产阶级与食品消费伦理（项目编号：BH170896）”

主持：曾国军 教授

时间：2018年10月15日（周一）19:00-21:00

地点：中山大学南校园文科楼第一会议室（531）

【主讲人简介】 Alexandra Hughes，英国纽斯卡尔大学地理、政治与社会学学院，经济地理教授、博士生导师。现任Journal of Economic Geography 编委（2017-）、Economic Geography编委（2017-）、Competition and Change (Sage)副主编（2016-）、英国ESRC项目评审专家，曾任英国皇家地理学会经济地理研究小组主席（Chair of the Economic Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG), 2012-15）。Alex的研究领域为饮食地理、道德地理、可持续饮食系统，共发表文章50多篇。现主持、参与多个ESRC项目，包括与巴西、南非、中国多个科研机构开展的“可持续消费、中产阶级与食物伦理（Sustainable Consumption, the Middle Classes and Agri-food Ethics in the Global South，2018-2020）”等。

【摘要】This paper engages with notions of healthy food articulated by middle class Cape Town residents, incorporating reflections on food purchase and use, as well as memory and aspiration, in people’s everyday lives. It does so to grasp shifting consumption practices in a context of significant political-economic and cultural change over the past two decades, with diets and food purchasing patterns changing alongside rapid urbanization, economic liberalization, growing numbers of middle classes, post-apartheid legislation and increasing pressure to address sustainability challenges. The middle classes in South Africa have been simultaneously celebrated for contributions to economic growth and derided for materialist aspirations, leaving nuanced analysis of consumption practice lacking. Our intervention embraces the multiple and contested meanings of healthy food for these consumers, capturing current lived experiences, as well as the significant influence of food knowledge concerning health and wellbeing that was shaped for many by apartheid, and the everyday negotiation of commercial and cultural influences resulting from subsequent political and economic transitions. Drawing on interviews and focus groups, the paper therefore foregrounds middle-class Cape Town consumers’ understandings of healthy food in the context of the political-economic systems through which food is made available and marketed to them, and their decision-making regarding health and wellbeing in their everyday domestic, social and working lives. We challenge some of the binaries dominant in food consumption analysis, including healthy/unhealthy eating and thrifty/extravagant consumption, which have tended to generate simplified accounts and sometimes problematically moralizing policy agendas insensitive to cultural and political pasts.