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🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *🎯 The video is about a talk on "consuming the creative city: gastrodevelopment in a UNESCO creative city of gastronomy", presented at Tufts University.* 00:14 *🌍 The talk acknowledges that Tufts University's Medford campus is on colonized and traditional territory of the Massachusett people.* 00:29 *🧑‍🏫 The speaker is Dr. Eden Kinkaid, a human geographer and social scientist whose work focuses on sustainable and equitable food and agricultural systems, place, race, and development.* 01:37 *🏆 In 2015, Tucson, Arizona became the first city in the U.S. to be awarded the UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy designation, recognizing its rich agricultural history and vibrant food culture.* 02:07 *🤝 The speaker collaborated with Ellen Platt on this research project.* 03:04 *🌆 The UNESCO designation gave rise to the Tucson City of Gastronomy, a nonprofit organization that governs the designation and its use, leading to various activities like fundraising, marketing, educational programs, and food festivals.* 04:00 *🔍 The research project asks what the designation means for Tucson, how its food heritage is leveraged for development, and for whom, considering the potential risks of cultural appropriation, gentrification, and racialized dispossession.* 05:08 *💰 The speaker explores how gastrodevelopment produces and relies upon a circuit of extractive value production, which is racialized and involves the transformation of cultural capital into symbolic and economic capital.* 06:31 *🍴 Geographer Pascal Jart Marelli coined the term "gastrodevelopment" to refer to the leveraging of food culture as a resource and strategy of economic development, often driven by a network of urban elites and managers.* 07:39 *🌆 Gastrodevelopment is part of the creative cities model of urban development, where food culture is incorporated into a package of place-based amenities to attract a particular class of upwardly mobile, highly educated, and typically white consumers.* 26:39 *🌄 The value of the desert landscape in Tucson is reimagined as a white space that is "discovered" and made to bloom by white entrepreneurs and artisans, reproducing a racialized frontier mythology.* 27:22 *🏆 The UNESCO City of Gastronomy designation provides a structure for commodifying Tucson's food heritage and branding the city as a tourism destination.* 28:10 *📋 The city provides workshops to help local food producers develop and market their products using the City of Gastronomy designation, but this can lead to issues of cultural appropriation.* 30:46 *🌱 Marketing strategies often involve mainstreaming and commodifying indigenous and Latin American food traditions as "exotic" and "new" for white consumer audiences.* 32:12 *🏨 The City of Gastronomy brand is used by the local government and tourism sectors to position Tucson as a distinctive culinary destination to attract investment, businesses, and consumption.* 34:37 *🏢 The materialization of the City of Gastronomy brand tends to manifest in elite, white-dominated spaces of food consumption, rather than benefiting marginalized communities.* 36:36 *💥 Historically, projects of "revitalization" and "renewal" in Tucson have involved the displacement and destruction of Mexican American and racially diverse neighborhoods.* 38:16 *📢 The designation brings concerns about "cultural gentrification" and the appropriation of Latin American and indigenous food cultures by the dominant white food spaces and elite consumers.* 40:25 *🌍 There are alternative visions for leveraging food culture for community development that are more focused on addressing food and housing insecurity, rather than tourism and urban growth.* 42:19 *✍️ The report provided by the researchers aimed to highlight the issues of racism and exclusion within the dominant implementation of the City of Gastronomy designation, but faced resistance from the leadership.* 51:40 *💰 The UNESCO City of Gastronomy designation does not come with direct funding, but the city and county have provided grants and funding for related initiatives like a large food festival called P.* 52:36 *🍽️ The P festival, which celebrates maize, received significant public funding, despite increasing household food insecurity and evictions in the city during the COVID-19 pandemic.* 53:16 *📢 The speaker has suggested the City of Gastronomy organization should leverage its brand to direct more resources to community groups, but the leadership has not been receptive to this idea.* 53:45 *🎉 The P festival is a large, multi-city food and cultural event that is funded and promoted as a way to attract tourism to Tucson.* 54:25 *👏 The speaker is thanked for the fantastic presentation, and the video recording will be made available by the Shareable organization.* Made with HARPA AI

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