ABSTRACT
This chapter thoughtfully investigates cultural spaces where the meanings of foods and foodways are contested. In focusing on representations of food across media, underscores the critical role such representations play in these debates as they shape how food and food ways evolve from the quotidian practice of eating into meaningful cultural signifiers. The chapter interrogates food and food ways as agents of a neoliberal project of shaping individuals in ways that conform to their society's prevailing values and ideologies. A number of the chapters have made use of Foucault's concept of heterotopia to investigate sites where resistance to such dominant ideologies flourishes. The chapters points the way forward by eschewing the binary formulation of dominance/resistance in favor of analyses of hybrid food practices. It is reinforced by Joanne Hollows, whose analysis of the campaigning culinary documentary concludes that representations of working-class women's food practices function to taint their mothering skills and to suggest moral shortcomings.
