Chapter 1. Introduction: globalization and mediatization as mediating concepts; Jörg Dürrschmidt
Part I: Nation and region
Chapter 2. The formation of a national cuisine in Costa Rican cookbooks and its impact on regional cuisines as markers of identity; Mona Nikolić
Chapter 3. Mediating National Identity, Practising Life Politics: Visual Representations of a Food Education Campaign in Japan; Stephanie Assmann
Chapter 4: Mediatization and Mediation of parenthood – Politics of infant feeding in Hong Kong; Veronica MAK Sau-wa
Chapter 5. Myths of the Health-giving Properties of Korean Cuisine; Chan Young Kim and David Carter
Part II: Tradition and Modernity
Chapter 6. Technological Change and Contemporary Transformations in Yucatecan Cooking; Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz
Chapter 7. Traditional food knowledge in a globalised world: Mediation and mediatization perceived by Tswana women in South Africa; Nicole Claasen & Shingairai Chigeza
Chapter 8. Cooking the Past: Traditionalism in Czech Culinary Magazines; Michal Bočák
Part III: Celebrity Culture
Chapter 9. Celebrity Chefs and the Limits of Playing Politics from the Kitchen; Raúl Matta
Chapter 10. Ethnodelicious: Mediatized Culinary Anthropology and the Mediation of Global Food Cultures; Isabelle de Solier
Chapter 11. Creating and Routinizing Style and Immediacy: Keith Floyd and the South-West English Roots of New Cookery Mediatizations; David Inglis and Anna-Mari Almila
Part IV: Social and cultural complexity
Chapter 12. Mediating Fish: Mediatization, Consumer Choice, and Media Morality; Elspeth Probyn
Chapter 13. Halal Crab, Haram Crab: Understanding Islam in southern Thailand through the lens of seafood; Saroja Dorairajoo
Chapter 14. “It’s only cannibalism if we’re equals”: Consuming the Lesser in Hannibal; Michael Dellwing
Chapter 15. Mediatization and global foodscapes: a conceptual outline; York Kautt.
Jörg Dürrschmidt is Professor of Sociology at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg - Public Administration and Finance, Germany.
York Kautt is Professor of Media Sociology at the University of Giessen, Germany.