Food and the Self

Consumption, Production and Material Culture

AvIsabelle de Solier,Daniel Miller

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but by consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people in postindustrial societies strive to form meaningful and moral selves through both the consumption and production of material culture in leisure. Focusing on the material culture of food, the book explores these theoretical questions through an ethnography of those individuals for whom food is central to their self: 'foodies'. It examines what foodies do, and why they do it, through an in-depth study of their lived experiences. The book uncovers how food offers a means of shaping the self not as a consumer but as an amateur who engages in both the production and consumption of material culture and adopts a professional approach which reveals the new moralities of productive leisure in self-formation. The chapters examine a variety of practices, from fine dining and shopping to cooking and blogging, and include rare data on how people use media such as cookbooks, food television, and digital food media in their everyday life.This book is ideal for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the meaning of food in modern life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-10
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:481 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Materializing Culture
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780857854216

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Isabelle de Solier is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University, Australia. She has published on food in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Continuum, and the edited collection Exposing Lifestyle Television, and is the editor of Food Cultures, a special issue of Cultural Studies Review.

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Food and the Self provides an interesting and broad discussion of the complexities of consumption and production in the formation of identity in postindustrial modernity … this book should be of great interest to graduate students and advanced scholars of modernity, production and consumption, and food studies. The book’s focus on food and culture among middle and upper classes in metropolises is unique and an important contribution to the literature.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Foodies: Material Culture and the Self in Postindustrial Society1. Moralities of Productive Leisure and Material Culture2. Learning Things: Material Media and Gastronomic Education 3. Consuming Things: Material Cultures and Moralities of Consumption4. Dining Out: Restaurants, Serious Consumption and Molecular Gastronomy 5. Shopping: Slow Food, Ethical Consumption and the Morality of Quality6. Producing Things: Material Media and Moralities of Production7. Cooking: Manual Leisure and Material Production8. Blogging: Digital Leisure and Material Media ProductionAfterword: Materializing Moral SelvesBibliographyIndex