Taiwan Tea: Ongoing Struggles over Food Nationalism
By Po-Yi Hung and Yu-Hsiu Lien, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Local tea in Taiwan – whether traditional high mountain oolong, or modern bubble tea – has been an icon representing Taiwan’s food...
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By Eimear Kelly, Queen Mary University of London Public protests are not the only way to effect change. Image credit: Flickr user Fibonacci Blue CC-By 2.0 The rise of nationalism and far-right...
View ArticleItaly: A Tale of Popular Geographic Circulation
by Benjamin Sacks Italy: designed by geography. © 2014 Wikimedia Commons. In 2002 Harvard historian David Armitage advanced his groundbreaking ‘Three Concepts of the Atlantic World’, a...
View ArticleRenaming and Rebranding Place
By Chris Post and Derek H. Alderman Terry McAuliffe, Democrat Governor of Virginia, USA, has a difficult decision to make. He has promised a change in Virginia school textbooks—to include “East Sea” as...
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