ABSTRACT
Reflecting a growing interest in consumption practices, and particularly relating to food, this cross disciplinary volume brings together diverse perspectives on our (often taken for granted) domestic mealtimes.
By unpacking the meal as a set of practices - acquisition, appropriation, appreciation and disposal - it shows the role of the market in such processes by looking at how consumers make sense of marketplace discourses, whether this is how brand discourses influence shopping habits, or how consumers interact with the various spaces of the market. Revealing food consumption through both material and symbolic aspects, and the role that marketplace institutions, discourses and places play in shaping, perpetuating or transforming them, this holistic approach reveals how consumer practices of ‘the meal’, and the attendant meaning-making processes which surround them, are shaped.
This wide-ranging collection will be of great interest to a wide range of scholars interested in marketing, consumer behaviour and food studies, as well as the sociology of both families and food.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
Acquisition
chapter 5|18 pages
The multi-cultural food market
part II|60 pages
Appropriation
chapter 7|15 pages
Appropriating Bimby on the Internet
chapter 9|12 pages
Fraught contexts and mediated culinary practices
part III|60 pages
Appreciation
chapter 10|15 pages
Consuming the family and the meal
chapter 11|14 pages
From harmony to disruption and inability
part IV|53 pages
Disposal