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Creative Networks and the Making of Africa’s First UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy

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Creative cities and their networks are topics of growing scholarship. The objective is to examine the emergence of an African creative city and of its membership of a creative network, one of the seven subnetworks of the UNESCO Network of Creative Cities which focuses on gastronomy. The paper represents a contribution to scholarship on gastronomic tourism in the global South and is one of the few studies to address this theme in Africa. Attention is upon Overstrand which is situated in South Africa’s Western Cape province. A discussion is presented of the theoretical concept of creative networks, the development of the UNESCO Network of Creative Cities, debates specifically concerning UNESCO Creative Cities of Gastronomy, and of the evolution of gastronomy as one of the tourism products of the Overstrand, Africa’s first UNESCO creative city of gastronomy.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This sub-section builds from Rogerson (2019). For a full history of the development of Hermanus as a tourism resort prior to 1994 see also Rogerson and Rogerson 2020a.

  2. 2.

    Several of the historical documents issued by the Hermanus Publicity Association are unpaginated. These are available at the Cape Town depot of the National Library of South Africa.

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Thanks are due to Arno Booyzen for the maps and to Rhuleni Sebopetsa (Cape Town depot) and Marian Eksteen (Pretoria depot) of the National Library of South Africa for their assistance in sourcing historical documents. Sanette Ferreira made available unpublished research material to the authors. The comments from two reviewers are appreciated. Dawn and Skye Norfolk are credited for their always valued contributions.

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Rogerson, C.M., Rogerson, J.M. (2021). Creative Networks and the Making of Africa’s First UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy. In: Rogerson, C.M., Rogerson, J.M. (eds) Urban Tourism in the Global South. GeoJournal Library(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71547-2_11

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