This chapter explores ‘cultural citizenship’ (Winarnita, Motherhood, 2008) and ‘carework’ (Longman et al., 2013) from the site of (cyber-)kitchens. As part of an increasing cohort of transnational skilled migrants and recognizing themselves to be part of a vanishing community (Ponnapa, 2013), the Coorg community faces pressures to ‘preserve’ Kodavame - obligations to the homeland of Kodagu and its customary ways. Foodwork is one way in which culinary capital, social memory, and culturework are enacted and exchanged amidst increasing outmigration from this hilly, rural district to urban India and abroad. The evidence for my arguments is drawn from an analysis of content from transnational Coorg food bloggers and community conversations sparked by these. I discuss how culinary carework manifests online by studying how ancestral and family recipes are creatively adapted in modernity, circulated as a form of intergenerational and horizontal care, and in effect become recipes for performing Coorg identities under migration. I conclude by offering my findings from food blogs as digital spaces of moral community with variant extensions of care curated online as part of kin-keeping and community-building. I discuss the affective implications of this ‘cyber culinary carework’ via the production of community pride, nostalgia, hospitality, and joy.

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Recipes for Being Coorg: Culinary Carework via Diasporic Cyber Community

  • Bittiandra Chand Somaiah

摘要

This chapter explores ‘cultural citizenship’ (Winarnita, Motherhood, 2008) and ‘carework’ (Longman et al., 2013) from the site of (cyber-)kitchens. As part of an increasing cohort of transnational skilled migrants and recognizing themselves to be part of a vanishing community (Ponnapa, 2013), the Coorg community faces pressures to ‘preserve’ Kodavame - obligations to the homeland of Kodagu and its customary ways. Foodwork is one way in which culinary capital, social memory, and culturework are enacted and exchanged amidst increasing outmigration from this hilly, rural district to urban India and abroad. The evidence for my arguments is drawn from an analysis of content from transnational Coorg food bloggers and community conversations sparked by these. I discuss how culinary carework manifests online by studying how ancestral and family recipes are creatively adapted in modernity, circulated as a form of intergenerational and horizontal care, and in effect become recipes for performing Coorg identities under migration. I conclude by offering my findings from food blogs as digital spaces of moral community with variant extensions of care curated online as part of kin-keeping and community-building. I discuss the affective implications of this ‘cyber culinary carework’ via the production of community pride, nostalgia, hospitality, and joy.