{"id":7070,"date":"2022-06-30T03:09:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T03:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/?post_type=news&p=7070"},"modified":"2022-10-06T04:05:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T04:05:22","slug":"ikmas-seminar-series-10-2022","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/pkukmweb.ukm.my\/ikmas\/news\/ikmas-seminar-series-10-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"IKMAS Seminar Series 10\/2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Macao East-West sociocultural crossroads: Global tourism, gastronomy, and identity\u00a0imaginaries<\/h3>\n

Speaker: <\/span><\/b>Dr Marisa C.Gaspar <\/span>(Universidade de Lisboa)
\n<\/span>Date: 30 June 2022 (Thursday)
\n<\/span><\/b>Time: 3.30pm – 5.30pm
\n<\/span><\/b>Zoom Meeting:\u00a0https:\/\/ukm-edu-my.zoom.us\/j\/91350684633<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

For any inquiries, you may contact the secretariat farizankhatib@ukm.edu.my<\/a> or call 0389213949<\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Macao Special Administrative Region of the People\u2019s Republic of China, designated as the Macao SAR once it was reintegrated into China in 1999 under the \u2018One country, Two systems\u2019 policy, has an important role to play in China\u2019s contemporary worldwide economic power history. The Macao SAR has been one of the cities in the world with the highest income generated by the tourism sector, in particular, by the gambling industry. It can thus be said that Macao naturalizes an urban imaginary which corresponds to that of the consumer who seeks a cosmopolitan culture, luxury circuits and goods and the target audience par excellence in achieving China\u2019s macroeconomic objectives.<\/p>\n

In my ongoing post-doctoral project, \u00abFeasting and power: the economy of culture in Macao, China\u00bb, I seek to research how Macao\u2019s tourism promotion and its East-West identity construction is based on a cultural hybridity, from a Portuguese inheritance, that has led to UNESCO\u2019s recognition as tangible and intangible world heritage and to a destination where gastronomy shines bright. Macao\u2019s food potential for intercultural dialogue, exchange, and the creation of fusion cuisines \u2013 such as secular Portuguese based Macanese culinary practices \u2013 while still preserving local ancient mixed western identity, constitutes a significant part of the current political agenda. Cultural promotion, likewise, has been developed to diversify tourism economy beyond the gambling sector, and to reflect the city\u2019s mixed cultural identity that justifies its role as a platform between China and Portuguese-speaking countries.<\/p>\n

In this seminar, I\u2019ll base my presentation on the case study of Macao\u2019s membership to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the field of gastronomy, in order to approach public policies for cultural tourism, heritage, and identity implemented in Macao, in articulation with the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative of economic expansion and creation of global alliances.<\/p>\n

KEYWORDS: Macao SAR; China; tourism; gastronomy; identity, economic development; global model: Portuguese<\/p>\n

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Marisa C. Gaspar holds a PhD in Social Anthropology. She develops
\nresearch activities as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SOCIUS\/CSG \u2013
\nResearch Centre in Economic and Organizational Sociology of the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG), Universidade de Lisboa, and as Visiting Researcher at the Institute of European Studies of Macao. Her current research interests are on cultural and gastronomic tourism in Macao, Macanese community, social change, identity and ambivalence, intangible heritage, anthropology of economy and politics. She is the author of several academic articles and of her most recent book, Heirs of the Bamboo: Identity & Ambivalence among the Eurasian Macanese (2020) published by Berghahn Books.<\/p>\n

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