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What is Food?

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What is Food?

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What is Food? book

Researching a Topic with Many Meanings

What is Food?

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What is Food? book

Researching a Topic with Many Meanings
Edited ByUlla Gustafsson, Rebecca O’Connell, Alizon Draper, Andrea Tonner
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 29 November 2019
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426100
Pages 204
eBook ISBN 9780429426100
Subjects Environment and Sustainability, Food Science & Technology, Health and Social Care, Humanities, Social Sciences
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Gustafsson, U., O’Connell, R., Draper, A., & Tonner, A. (Eds.). (2019). What is Food?: Researching a Topic with Many Meanings (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426100

ABSTRACT

This volume brings together contributions that provide a snapshot of current food research. What is Food? acknowledges the many dimensions of food, including its social, cultural, symbolic and sensual qualities, while also being material in that it is fundamental to our survival.

The collection addresses contemporary challenges and reflects the concerns of funders and researchers working in the broad field of the sociology of food: dietary health, sustainability, food safety and food poverty. Reflecting broader academic trends, the chapters are moreover concerned with interdisciplinarity, the analysis of change, data reuse and the use of social media as data. The book includes empirical evidence from around the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan and addresses food both as a lens through which to examine these wider social relationships, processes and social change and as a primary subject.

The contributions will be of interest to a wide range of students and researchers looking for a cutting-edge insight into how to frame and study food in areas related to the sociology of food, health, risk, poverty, sustainability and research methods.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

Edited ByUlla Gustafsson, Rebecca O’Connell, Alizon Draper, Andrea Tonner

part Part I|79 pages

Studying food

chapter Chapter 1|21 pages

Revisiting ‘Eating Out’

Understanding 20 years of change in the practice in three English cities
ByJessica Paddock, Jennifer Whillans, Alan Warde, Lydia Martens

chapter Chapter 2|19 pages

Food poverty in context

Parental sacrifice and children’s experiences in low-income families in the UK
Edited ByRebecca O’Connell, Abigail Knight, Julia Brannen

chapter Chapter 3|21 pages

From practices to volumes, from meaning to nutrients

An interdisciplinary approach to healthy and sustainable food consumption
ByLaurence Godin, Alexi Ernstoff, Marlyne Sahakian

chapter Chapter 4|16 pages

Traditional or cultural relativist school meals?

The construction of religiously sanctioned school meals on social media
ByChristine Persson Osowski, Ylva Mattsson Sydner

part Part II|97 pages

Changes and challenges

chapter Chapter 5|17 pages

‘I wouldn’t delve into it too much’

Public concerns (or not) about the contemporary UK food supply system
Edited ByAlizon Draper, Val Gill, Hayley Lepps, Caireen Roberts, Judith Green

chapter Chapter 6|19 pages

Eating less meat ‘to save the planet’

Studying the development of sustainable healthy eating advice in the UK and Denmark
ByIsabel Fletcher

chapter Chapter 7|21 pages

Healthy eating, social class and ethnicity

Exploring the food practices of South Asian mothers
ByPunita Chowbey

chapter Chapter 8|17 pages

The original taste of real food

The discursive formation of Taiwan’s food education
ByMing-Tse Hung

chapter Chapter 9|21 pages

‘We need to survive’

Integrating social enterprises within community food initiatives
Edited ByAndrea Tonner, Juliette Wilson, Katy Gordon, Eleanor Shaw
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