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The Transformative Nature of Food: Adaptation, Connectivity and Identity

The Transformative Nature of Food: Adaptation, Connectivity and Identity

Daou, Dolly
Sarantou, Melanie

Hardcover

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1041087039
ISBN13: 9781041087038
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 26 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores the process of food migration, adaptation, and connections to cultural identities through the lens of food design research. Using design practice and methodology, it creates an awareness for the health and well-being of humanity's ecosystems through identity and adaptation.

The book examines the evolving relationship between people and food, exploring how food transforms when it migrates to new cultures, adapting to local environments, ingredients, and practices. This leads to the creation of hybrid cultural practices and identities. Food adaptation affects the three integrated aspects of personal, social, and environmental connectivity, shaping individual and national identities while influencing sustainable food choices and practices. The book analyses food transformation from these three integrated perspectives, using examples from a variety of global contexts. Key questions include how food adaptation reconciles with new identities and the impact of cultural memories on food practices, and how can food design promote sustainable, transformative food cultures? Contributors from diverse backgrounds will use design to question and foster the awareness of food's role in human health, well-being, environmental sustainability and ecology.

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