Tropical cosmopolitanism and outdoor food markets in (post)colonial Australia
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2011
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Luckman, S.
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Continuum, 2011; 25(5):653-667
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In this article I offer a critical examination of Darwin’s contemporary food markets and, in particular, the Mindil Beach Night Markets, as sites of 'tropical cosmopolitanism'. To do so, I focus on the intersection of place and food to illuminate what it reveals about the rich and complex history of cultural exchange on this small city site and, in turn, what this may reveal about contemporary postcolonial multiculture.
As a high profile and significant place, both geographically and socially, Mindil Beach furnishes the researcher with a rich cultural text through which the various affordances of space and food reflect broader politico-cultural thinking. Within such a framework I consider the erasures and silences, presences and absences contributing to the degree to which the multiculturally rich Mindil hawker stalls can be considered demonstrative of a national vision of cosmopolitanism that is truly postcolonial, and hence more than simply 'banal cosmopolitanism'.
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Copyright 2011 Taylor and Francis
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