Hybridities and awkward constructions in Philippine locavorism: Reframing global-local dynamics through assemblage thinking

• Main Authors: Montefrio, Marvin Joseph F., De Chavez, Jeremy C., Contreras, Antonio P., Erasga, Dennis S.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Cooking, Philippine; Local foods > Philippines; Food habits > Philippines; Flavor; Social and Behavioral Sciences; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1982
• Institution: De La Salle University

In the last six years, there has been an emergence of food retail establishments that claim to advocate and practice locavorism in Manila, capital of the Philippines. Based on three years of field research and new media analysis, we observed that the Manila adaptation of locavorism has striking simi...