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Eating In: Home, Consumption and Identity
Abstract
Food is perhaps one of the most mundane and taken for granted parts of our everyday life, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensively reflexive. This paper uses the example of food to explore questions of identity in relation to the specific cultural location of ‘the home’. Using case study examples the paper illustrates some of the complex ways in which identities, throughout the lifecourse, are produced, articulated and contested through food consumption and the spatial dynamics of cooking and eating. In doing so the paper demonstrates that households, rather than being single units of food consumption, can be sites of multiple and sometimes contradictory consumption practices and that it is necessary to understand how patterns of eating are negotiated and contested within households in order to understand how the home functions as a ‘consumption site’.
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- Authors
- Valentine, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Valentine, Gill
- ORCID
- Valentine, Gill
- Venue
- The Sociological Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1999-08
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 491-524
- ISSN
- 0038-0261 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-954X
- OpenAlex
- W2003530404
- Cited by
- 250
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 9.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Sociological Review (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Leverhulme Trust
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Cultural Capital and Social Class
- Keywords
- dietary intake, identity, home, households, cooking, dietary habits, spatial dynamics, life course
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