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E. Battaglini, Il gusto riflessivo : verso una sociologia della produzione e del consumo alimentare, Acireale-Roma, Bonanno, 2007
No full textComprendere il vegetarianismo : una prospettiva sociologica sull'astensione dalle carni nell'occidente contemporaneo
No full textAccounting for taste : the triumph of French cuisine, Chicago 2006, by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
No full textLa cucina da sfogliare : una prospettiva sociologica su editoria periodica e pratiche culinarie nell'Italia contemporanea
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Comment on Josée Johnston and Shyon Baumann/1 : foodies aesthetics and their reconciliatory view of food politics
Full text linkWhat does it mean to engage with “food politics”? This article seeks to investigate the implicit and explicit dimensions of food politics by exploring the various ways political goals are both articulated and submerged. Our focus is on foodie discourse, which we argue combines classical gourmet concerns with the progressive impulses of the 1960s and 1970s countercuisine. Within this discourse, explicit political commitments focus on progressive goals regarding the environment and animal welfare, giving less attention to other political dimensions – like labour rights and food security. While explicit political commitments are important, we argue that the implicit political implications of foodie culture are also important to explore. At this implicit level, the politics of social inequality remain largely unarticulated, despite the role that food choices and preferences have historically played in generating status distinctions, and despite the growing disparity between rich and poor in the United States. To make our argument, we draw on an analysis of American food journalism as well as in-depth interviews with foodies
A cena da noi : ospitalità e negoziazioni simboliche della domesticità
No full textPer quanto siano andati a pesare meno in media sul reddito famigliare dal secondo dopoguerra ad oggi, i consumi alimentari, lungi dall’essere divenuti residuali, hanno ancora importanti valenze simboliche, soprattutto laddove sono legati a pasti, ovvero eventi ritualizzati e ad alta densità di interazione sociale, dall’andare al ristorante all’invitare a cena a casa propria. In questo saggio ci concentreremo sul caso italiano, considerando un gruppo sociale complesso e articolato al suo interno, per quanto specificamente connotato nel discorso pubblico che possiamo definire “ceto medio”. Inoltre, anziché mettere a fuoco le pratiche di consumo relative alla ristorazione commerciale, considereremo il ruolo fondamentale che ancora viene ricoperto dall’ospitalità e in particolare dagli inviti a cena. Sulla base di una vasta ricerca qualitativa , mettiamo così a fuoco il modo in cui diverse frazioni del ceto medio italiano costruiscono il senso della propria intimità domestica e della propria identità famigliare attraverso il cibo e, al contempo, negoziano i rapporti di genere attraverso gli inviti a cena visti come occasioni cerimoniali cariche di significati
Genero, Clase y Consumo. El papel simbolico de la hospitalidad entre las familias de clase media
No full textA través de un trabajo cualitativo, la obra ilustra los hábitos alimentarios de la clase media italiana, con particular referencia a los rituales de hospitalidad, la construcción de identidades de género y los símbolos de clase
Polite Transgression: Pleasure as Economic Device and Ethical Stance in SlowFood
No full textAn increasingly legitimate way of portraying food issues in the public arena is via the framing of controversial dichotomies, such as local vs global, organic vs conventional, unprocessed vs processed, sustainable vs unsustainable, socially fair vs unfair. Many cultural entrepreneurs take part in the selection and interpretation processes which surround such dichotomies. Among them Slow Food (hereafter SF) has increasingly established itself as an influential actor on the scene of alternative food networks advocacy. In this chapter, we offer a reconstruction of the historical and cultural genealogy of SF, with relevant details about its social and political background as well as organizational set-up. This sets the context for a discussion of SF current politics, which we approach by looking, firstly at the place that SF occupies within the broader field of critical consumption, secondly at SF hybrid nature and complex architecture as a cultural intermediary and, thirdly, at its rendering of pleasure as a universal “right”. Overall, we aim to address both the link between cultural values and economic interests as expressed by SF initiatives and its visions of food quality , and SF particular take on the tension between elitism and universalism in its contribution to what has been defined as the “turn to quality” in the food sector. The chapter relies on empirical research conducted in Italy on SF Italian core. Through ethnographic observations, document analysis and interviews with key informants we offer a thick description of SF self-understanding and self-presentation. In its turn, this illuminates an increasingly relevant way of framing pleasure within the boundaries of critical consumption, providing a good example of the politics of quality food circuits in contemporary markets
Good Food and Nice People : Hospitality and the Construction of Quality Among the Italian Middle Class
No full textThis chapter addresses the aesthetical and ethical dimension of ordinary food consumption in contemporary Italy. In particular, we consider how Italian middle-class families bestow value onto food by constructing its “quality”. Reference to the local territory is often employed to construct a notion of food quality that is typically set against notions of globalization and massification; likewise reference to greenness and sustainability are contrasted with industrialism and corporate interests. Green, local food is appreciated both for its aesthetic and ethic prerogatives. Quality food becomes an aesthetic and ethic dispositive used to portray visions of personal as well as family wellbeing. These visions are carefully performed during dinner parties which work as rituals that mark and fix the meanings attached to food in ordinary life. The chapter thereby starts by considering party-giving and how this social occasion helps us understand the aesthetics and ethics of food consumption in Italy. From the onset of our study, it was evident that hospitality, and dinner parties in particular, still play a fundamental role in the ceremonial consolidation of meanings around food consumption. As we shall see, food consumption experiences are organized to stress domestic intimacy and familiar identity through food and, at the same time, negotiate gender relations. These meaning dynamics likewise construct a notion of food quality which is both aesthetically and ethically charged
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