Meat, Masculinity and Memory: Smithfield Market in the late twentieth century

肉类、男子气概和记忆：二十世纪末的史密斯菲尔德市场

• 批准号: 2444151
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2444151
• 关键词: Meat; Masculinity; Memory; Smithfield; Market

Drawing upon archival research, representational analysis and oral history interviews, my project will explore the recent history of Smithfield market. In collaboration with the Museum of London the project will engage wider audiences in the history of Smithfield and ensure that a complex and compelling rendering of its history becomes a sustained part of the new Museum of London, which is to be housed in the currently derelict wing of the market itself.Through the second half of the twentieth century most of London's historic and wholesale markets were relocated to the urban fringe. This resulted from urban processes of financialisaton and gentrification as well as from broader changes to way we shop, eat and cook. Yet Smithfield - located right on the border of The City's Square Mile - continued to function and is only now on the brink of closure and relocation. One of the most pertinent questions for my project is a seemingly simple one: How has Smithfield held out for so long? What kinds of economic, cultural, political, culinary or social capital have allowed Britain's largest wholesale meat market to continue functioning in a post-industrial urban context defined predominantly by finance capital and the 'creative industries'? I'm interested in how Smithfield's particularly evocative and visceral nexus of animal flesh, masculinity and latent historical memory might hold the key to understanding its peculiar recent history. As the popularity of its Christmas auction attests, the market has come to trade as much in 'Lost London' nostalgia as it has in meat. It is a place of labour and trade but it is also a site of 'urban memory' (Crinson, 2005). The centrality of masculinity - both to the Smithfield marketplace and to these pervasive cultural memories of London's past - invite a range of questions relating to food, gender and urban space. What can the juncture between the market's nocturnal 'meaty masculinities' and the 'office masculinities' of Farringdon's day-time inhabitants reveal about the changing face of patriarchy? How can the history of Smithfield shed light on enduring cultural associations between meat and masculinity?

我的项目将利用档案研究、代表性分析和口述历史访谈，探索史密斯菲尔德市场的近代历史。该项目与伦敦博物馆合作，将吸引更多观众了解史密斯菲尔德的历史，并确保对其历史的复杂而引人注目的呈现成为新伦敦博物馆的持续组成部分，该博物馆将位于目前废弃的侧翼中整个二十世纪下半叶，伦敦的大部分历史市场和批发市场都搬迁到了城市边缘。这是城市金融化和高档化进程以及我们购物、饮食和烹饪方式发生更广泛变化的结果。然而，位于城市平方英里边界的史密斯菲尔德仍在继续运作，只是现在正处于关闭和搬迁的边缘。与我的项目最相关的问题之一看似简单：史密斯菲尔德是如何坚持这么久的？什么样的经济、文化、政治、烹饪或社会资本使得英国最大的肉类批发市场能够在主要由金融资本和“创意产业”定义的后工业城市环境中继续运作？我感兴趣的是，史密斯菲尔德在动物肉体、阳刚之气和潜在历史记忆之间的特别令人回味和发自内心的联系如何成为理解其独特的近代历史的关键。正如圣诞拍卖会的受欢迎程度所证明的那样，市场上“失落的伦敦”怀旧情怀的交易量与肉类交易量一样多。它是一个劳动力和贸易的地方，但它也是一个“城市记忆”的场所（Crinson，2005）。男性气质的中心地位——无论是对史密斯菲尔德市场还是对伦敦过去的这些普遍文化记忆——引发了一系列与食物、性别和城市空间有关的问题。市场夜间的“肉欲男子气概”和法灵登白天居民的“办公室男子气概”之间的结合点能够揭示父权制面貌的哪些变化？史密斯菲尔德的历史如何揭示肉类与男性气质之间持久的文化联系？