Consumption, pleasure and politics: Slow food and the politico-aesthetic problematization of food

R Sassatelli, F Davolio - Journal of Consumer Culture, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing field of research is documenting the political investment of the consumer. Yet,
consumers are invested of political responsibilities in many different ways, which respond to …

Information and food blogging as serious leisure

AM Cox, MK Blake - Aslib proceedings, 2011 - emerald.com
Information and food blogging as serious leisure | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case
studies Expert Briefings Open Access Publish with us Advanced search Information and food …

Reflexivity and the Whole Foods Market consumer: the lived experience of shopping for change

J Johnston, M Szabo - Agriculture and Human Values, 2011 - Springer
There has been widespread academic and popular debate about the transformative
potential of consumption choices, particularly food shopping. While popular food media is …

Champions of the Movement or Fair‐weather Heroes? Individualization and the (A) politics of Local Food

JH Busa, R Garder - Antipode, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We ask to what degree consumers who act out movement practices (eg local food
consumption) may do so without regard for larger environmental and social justice …

The morality of cheese: A paradox of defensive localism in a transnational cultural economy

KI MacDonald - Geoforum, 2013 - Elsevier
The extension of consumption under contemporary capitalism is aided by a capacity to
qualify products as cultural, with the ability to reproduce nature, community and tradition. In …

Moral struggles in markets: The fight against battery cages and the rise of cage-free eggs in Switzerland

P Balsiger - European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Practices within markets are widely regulated and sometimes contested on the basis of
moral judgments. Moral entrepreneurs challenge markets and market practices while firms …

Between shaming corporations and promoting alternatives: The politics of an “ethical shopping map”

P Balsiger - Journal of Consumer Culture, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Ethical consumption can take different forms, some more contentious like boycotts or public
campaigns, some aiming at the establishment or promotion of alternative consumption …

Making privilege palatable: Normative sustainability in chefs' Instagram discourse

G Mapes, AS Ross - Language in Society, 2022 - cambridge.org
In this article we consider the discursive production of status as it relates to democratic
ideals of environmental equity and community responsibility, orienting specifically to food …

The making of authentic tortellini: Aestheticization of artisanal labor and elite univorism in the case of local food

EAG Arfini - European Journal of Cultural Studies, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, I will look at two distinct Bolognese practices within the tortellini commodity
circuit as a case in the cultural production of traditional local food. The article is based on …

Pure taste in popular music: The social construction of indie-folk as a performance of “poly-purism”

N Van Poecke - American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2018 - Springer
This article examines the social construction of indie-folk as a genre, defined not primarily as
an aesthetic category but as a tool and resource of social differentiation. Drawing from 48 in …