TY - THES ID - 136744771 TI - Professional Expatriates’ Cosmopolitan Food Consumption in Mexico City AU - Wang, Shengyun AU - Salazar, Noel AU - K.U. Leuven. Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen. Master Erasmus Mundus Intercultural Mediation PY - 2014 PB - Leuven : K.U. Leuven. Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136744771 AB - Cosmopolitanism is a concept that is commonly attributed frequent travellers. However this concept has received little scrutiny in anthropology. Available literatures have divers opinions on expatriates' openness to cultural diversity (cultural cosmopolitans; soft cosmopolitans and metropolitan locals, etc.), but most of them stay at the conceptual level without ethnographic description to substantiate these claims. This thesis participates in this discussion by providing ethnography on professional expatriates' grounded cosmopolitanism in food consumption in Polanquito, a showcase of global gastronomy in the expatriate community in Mexico City. By bringing to light a slice of cosmopolitanism in expatriates' everyday life, I highlight two mechanisms that are at work—imaginaries and cultural capital accumulation at transnational spaces. I argues that represented foodway (transnational cosmopolitanism) and original ones are two different experiences that are likely to be conflated in the globalization discourse. ER -