Meah, A. orcid.org/0000-0001-7177-2890 and Jackson, P. (2017) Convenience as care: culinary antinomies in practice. Environment and Planning A, 49 (9). pp. 2065-2081. ISSN 0308-518X
Abstract
This paper addresses the social and cultural significance of convenience food, often regarded as among the least healthy and most unsustainable of dietary options, subject to frequent moral disapprobation. The paper focuses, in particular, on the relationship between convenience and care, conventionally seen in oppositional terms as a culinary antinomy. Informed by a ‘theories of practice’ approach, the paper presents empirical evidence from ethnographically-informed research on everyday consumption practices in the UK to demonstrate how convenience foods can be used as an expression of care rather than as its antithesis. The paper uses Fisher and Tronto’s theorisation of caring about, taking care of, caregiving and care-receiving to draw out the dynamics of this morally contested social practice.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | convenience food; care; practice theory; culinary antinomies; moralization of food |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS FO0459 EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL CONANX - 230287 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jun 2017 09:05 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2023 15:02 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0308518X17717725 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:117536 |