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JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
Volume 79, Issue -, Pages 373-381Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.030
Keywords
Food festival; Countryside capital; Local identity; Sustainability; Authenticity
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- Top University Strategic Alliance (Taiwan, R. O.C.)
- Harvard University
- National Chengchi University International Research Collaboration Grant
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This paper examines the role of the Bluefin Tuna Cultural Festival in developing and sustaining regional identities within the context of rural regeneration, sustainability, and the creation of closer relationships between production and consumption in the countryside. It focuses on Donggang, Southern Taiwan, an area with rural development issues, increasing tourism impacts, and contested issues of local identity, sustainability, and an aging society. This paper draws on public discourse and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders in Donggang to understand the conditions required for substantiating authenticity of the gastronomic products and experiences and the promotion of an appealing gastronomic image. This study traces the process of embedding bluefin tuna in Donggang through marketing, branding and provides a preliminary conceptualization of interrelations between gastronomic tourism and community development in East Asia. The paper draws attention to these particular issues issues: the commodification of local heritage and countryside capital, strategies and challenges of hosting culinary festivals and resolving the issue of return migration.
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