Browsing by Author "Çakir, M.U."

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Exploring the Captivating World of Gastro-Ethnobiology and Gastronomy Tourism Applications
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2025) Şengül, S.; Dişsiz, S.U.; Çakir, M.U.
The concept of ethnobiology examines cultural values in the context of human and environmental interaction, contributing to preserving local culture and biodiversity. The concept of gastronomy tourism involves experiencing the production, consumption, and table manners of local delicacies, and it is closely related to the region’s biodiversity. Gastronomy ethnobiology combines these concepts and forms the basis of people’s life experiences. It includes various elements such as wild plants, ancestral seeds, local crop diversity, and changes in nutrition patterns due to migrations. Gastronomy ethnobiology is often called the invisible fingerprints of local communities. This phenomenon is recognized as an invaluable part of our cultural heritage, underscoring the urgent need for a dynamic conservation strategy to ensure its enduring legacy for future generations. This research aims to establish a flexible network using a deep understanding of gastronomy, nature, culture, and the environment. How gastronomy tourism affects the sustainability of gastronomy ethnobiology was evaluated to achieve this. The research examined traditional food ethnobiology practices in the context of gastronomy tourism and their effects on sociocultural structure, biocultural diversity, and gastronomy practices. © 2025 Andrea Edurne Jimenez Ruiz, Volha Rudkouskaya, and Shivam Bhartiya.
The Use of Food in Cinema as a Soft Power Instrument
(IGI Global, 2023) Şengül, S.; Çakir, M.U.
Regarding reaching large audiences, cinema is one of the oldest known advertising tools and is often used by countries as a soft power tool. Although food's social and cultural reflections in the cinema are not a new development, it has increased in recent years. It is thought that cinema increases intercultural interaction and helps to reshape borders in the globalizing world. Sensing social concepts such as food and marginalization, the relationship between food and gender, food, and social discrimination related to daily life are conveyed through cinema. One of the biggest motivations for writing the chapter is to examine the soft power effect of culinary culture in the cinematic narrative. In this study, the relationship between soft power and cinema was examined. At the same time, the use of food as a soft power element in cinematic narrative is examined. In this context, the importance of food as a soft power source in cinema in terms of nation branding and the place of Turkish culinary culture in cinema has been discussed. © 2023, IGI Global. All rights reserved.