Multiple Modernities in the Megacity? Economic and Spatial Restructuring of Food Markets in Dhaka / Bangladesh

达卡的大城市食品系统目前正在经历现代零售店的快速增长。虽然我们还不能说“超市革命”（Humphrey 2007），但这一现代化进程是由全球变化驱动的，包括新的全球食品链和不断变化的食品和购物偏好，在许多方面影响了达卡现有的零售系统。它逐渐导致其经济和空间结构的变化，但它也需要新的食品企业家方面的具体营销战略，以满足大城市消费者的需求，现有和新建立的食品零售结构之间的共存和相互作用导致杰克逊（2004年）所谓的“多重现代性”。全球经济驱动力、新的饮食习惯、新型食品销售渠道，以及基本上非正式组织的现有食品系统的特点和需求，以动态的方式相互作用，从而创造了复杂的新形式的现代化。该项目将结合发展经济学和文化地理学的观点，对这些过程进行经验分析。它将采用“真实的市场”的概念，强调市场政治、权力关系以及由此产生的管理特大城市粮食系统并深刻影响特大城市“真实的人”生计的体制安排。

The megaurban food system of Dhaka is currently experiencing the fast growth of modern retail outlets. Although we can certainly not yet speak of a “supermarket revolution” (Humphrey 2007), this modernisation process which is driven by global change both in terms of new global food chains and changing food and shopping preferences, impacts the existing retail system of Dhaka in many ways. It gradually leads to shifts in its economic and spatial structure, but it also requires specific marketing strategies from the side of the new food entrepreneurs to cater the needs of the megaurban consumers.The coexistence of and the interaction between existing and newly established food retail structures leads to what Jackson (2004) has called “multiple modernities”. Global economic drivers, new food habits, new types of food outlets, and the characteristics and needs of the largely informally organized existing food system interact in a dynamic way, thus creating complex new forms of modernity. The project will analyse these processes empirically by integrating the perspectives of development economics and cultural geography. It will employ the concept of “real markets”, with an emphasis on the politics of markets, on power relations, and on the resulting institutional arrangements that govern the megaurban food system and deeply impact the livelihoods of “real people” in the megacity.