Josefine Östrup Backe
Universitetslektor
Enacting "the local" in culinary tourism : A study of culinary actors and their practices
Författare
Summary, in English
The overall aim of this thesis is to study how culinary tourism is enacted as an economic, social, and cultural activity, through the notion of “the local”. The vision of Sweden – a new culinary nation, and a culinary tourism producer network in Southern Sweden act as examples of this process. The empirical data was collected by an ethnographic approach, through observations, conversations/interviews and the study of various documents. Taking a practice theoretical perspective, the thesis analyses how the local in culinary tourism is enacted in three practice-bundles: framing the ideal culinary destination, organising culinary tourism, and performing the local in culinary tourism. The analysis demonstrates how the local is enacted as a combination of acts such as positioning a culinary tourism profile, staging of culinary products and experiences, negotiating what or whom should be included in a culinary network, or ways of talking about the local as a part of rural policy, ways of designing food tours, or specific uses of local food products and other items in culinary activities. The thesis contributes to understanding the processes involved with the planning and performing of tourism experiences and activities, as well as the complexities therein. Thereby different tensions that emerge in this vein also become visible, such as tensions between the local and non-local, the commercial and ideal, as well as the physical and more abstract elements linked to the local.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap
Publiceringsår
2020-02-07
Språk
Engelska
Fulltext
Dokumenttyp
Doktorsavhandling
Förlag
Lund University
Ämne
- Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Nyckelord
- culinary tourism
- food experiences
- the local
- local food
- tourism production
- practice theory
- social practices
- destination branding
- culinary actors
- rural food experiences
- ethnography
Status
Published
Handledare
- Su Mi Dahlgaard-Park
- Erika Andersson Cederholm
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 978-91-7895-355-4
- ISBN: 978-91-7895-354-7
Försvarsdatum
7 februari 2020
Försvarstid
13:15
Försvarsplats
Campus Helsingborg, U203
Opponent
- Jon Sundbo (Professor)