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dc.contributor.advisorCarney, Megan
dc.contributor.advisorBellante, Laurel
dc.contributor.authorKinkaid, Eden
dc.creatorKinkaid, Eden
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-29T01:21:09Z
dc.date.available2023-06-29T01:21:09Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.citationKinkaid, Eden. (2023). Consuming the Creative City: An Urban Political Ecology of Gastrodevelopment (Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA).
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/668420
dc.description.abstractScholars have recently coined the term “gastrodevelopment” to refer to the increasingly visible relationships between food, food culture, and processes of urban development. As a paradigm, gastrodevelopment is premised on the leveraging of food culture as a resource and strategy of economic development. In this dissertation, I develop an urban political ecology of gastrodevelopment based on fieldwork in Tucson, Arizona. Drawing together concepts of metabolism and racializing assemblage, I offer an account of how gastrodevelopment mobilizes symbolic and material resources to reshape the city’s foodscape and Tucson’s urban landscape more broadly. Through a case study of Tucson’s UNESCO City of Gastronomy designation, I demonstrate how gastrodevelopment produces and relies upon a circuit of value production, one that enrolls environmental imaginaries, meanings of place, circuits of capital, and processes of urban transformation in the name of “creative” and “sustainable” development. I show how this circuit of value production is racialized, in that it relies upon and reproduces forms of cultural appropriation, gentrification, and racialized dispossession that produce Tucson’s food heritage as a White cultural and economic possession. In closing, I draw out key historical resonances and the political-economic momentums that will shape Tucson as it continues to be transformed into a “Creative City of Gastronomy.”
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe University of Arizona.
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dc.subjectassemblage
dc.subjectdevelopment
dc.subjectfood
dc.subjectgastrodevelopment
dc.subjectplace
dc.subjectrace
dc.titleConsuming the Creative City: An Urban Political Ecology of Gastrodevelopment
dc.typeElectronic Dissertation
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thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Arizona
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
dc.contributor.committeememberKear, Mark
dc.contributor.committeememberLiverman, Diana
thesis.degree.disciplineGraduate College
thesis.degree.disciplineGeography
thesis.degree.namePh.D.
refterms.dateFOA2023-06-29T01:21:09Z


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