Meah, A. and Watson, M.T. (2013) Cooking up consumer anxieties about ‘provenance’ and ‘ethics. Why it sometimes matters where foods come from in domestic provisioning. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research,, 16 (3). 495 - 512. ISSN 1552-8014
Abstract
Provenance is fundamentally about foods' point of origin. It is thus, unsurprising that studies of food provenance typically focus on circumstances of production and the routes foods follow to get to situations of exchange and, to a lesser extent, final consumption. However, this dominant framing leads to an asymmetry of attention between production and consumption. By neglecting the situatedness of food purchase and use, much of what makes provenance meaningful and productive for consumers is missed. This paper draws upon qualitative and ethnographic data to explore why and how it sometimes matters where food comes from. What emerges is an expanded and problematized practical understanding of provenance, where concerns for the point of origin is generally inseparable from, and subsumed within, a broader range of ethical concerns about where food comes from.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2013 Bloomsbury Publishing. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Food, Culture and Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | CARE; CONSUMER ETHICS; PRACTICES; PROVENANCE; PROVISIONING; SHOPPING |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2015 15:57 |
Last Modified: | 23 Mar 2018 19:42 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175174413X13673466712001 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.2752/175174413X13673466712001 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:85358 |