Reconfiguring food materialities : plant-based food consumption practices in antagonistic landscapes
Fuentes, Maria LU and Fuentes, Christian LU
(2022)
In Food, Culture and Society
25(3).
p.520-539
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is to conceptualize and discuss how plant-based food consumption is accomplished in an environment pre-configured by meat-based food practices. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with thirteen consumers, and using a socio-material practice approach, the paper demonstrates how plant-based shopping, cooking and eating practices are enabled and shaped by material reconfigurations. The paper shows how developments such as an expanding range of plant-based food products, the increased use of social media, and the re-appropriation of shops and kitchens all entail the continuous reconfiguration of the materials involved in shopping, cooking and eating practices. Together, these material reconfigurations form a... (More)
The aim of this paper is to conceptualize and discuss how plant-based food consumption is accomplished in an environment pre-configured by meat-based food practices. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with thirteen consumers, and using a socio-material practice approach, the paper demonstrates how plant-based shopping, cooking and eating practices are enabled and shaped by material reconfigurations. The paper shows how developments such as an expanding range of plant-based food products, the increased use of social media, and the re-appropriation of shops and kitchens all entail the continuous reconfiguration of the materials involved in shopping, cooking and eating practices. Together, these material reconfigurations form a socio-material landscape that is mutable and changing, thus enabling plant-based food consumption. In addition, the paper also suggests that these material reconfigurations are not something that can be managed due to having evolved as a collective process in which multiple actors take part, all guided by their own interests. In doing so, the paper illustrates that, in order to understand plant-based consumption, as well as its emergence, performance, and complexities, we must take into account the practical and material aspects involved, not just the cultural or cognitive mechanisms.
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- author
- Fuentes, Maria
LU
and Fuentes, Christian
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Consumption, materiality, plant-based, practice theory, vegetarian
- in
- Food, Culture and Society
- volume
- 25
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 520 - 539
- publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85104753716
- ISSN
- 1552-8014
- DOI
- 10.1080/15528014.2021.1903716
- project
- Alternative Food Markets: Promoting new modes of food provisioning and consumption
- Service Studies Consumption
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 4039f23a-bb15-498b-bf14-007d988db0dd
- date added to LUP
- 2021-05-10 11:48:42
- date last changed
- 2024-06-15 10:56:39
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