Food and the self : consumption, production and material culture / Isabelle de Solier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Solier, Isabelle, author.

Series:

Materializing culture.

Materializing culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Economic aspects.

Food.

Material culture.

Food--Social aspects.

Food consumption.

Food supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, [2013]

Summary:

We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people strive to form meaningful 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 ethnography of those 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. It 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, taking a professional approach which reveals the moralities of productive leisure in self-formation. The chapters examine a variety of practices, from fine dining and shopping to cooking and blogging, including 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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction Foodies: Material Culture and the Self in Postindustrial Society

1 Moralities of Productive Leisure and Material Culture

2 Learning Things: Material Media and Gastronomic Education

3 Consuming Things: Material Cultures and Moralities of Consumption

4 Dining Out: Restaurants, Serious Consumption, and Molecular Gastronomy

5 Shopping: Slow Food, Ethical Consumption, and the Morality of Quality

6 Producing Things: Material Media and Moralities of Production

7 Cooking: Manual Leisure and Material Production

8 Blogging: Digital Leisure and Material Media Production

Afterword Materializing Moral Selves

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-190) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781472520906

1472520904

9780857854353

0857854356

OCLC:

858763491