Convenience as care: Culinary antinomies in practice

Angela Meah and Peter Jackson

Environment and Planning A, 2017, vol. 49, issue 9, 2065-2081

Abstract: This paper addresses the social and cultural significance of convenience food, often regarded as among the least healthy and most unsustainable of dietary options, subject to frequent moral disapprobation. The paper focuses, in particular, on the relationship between convenience and care, conventionally seen in oppositional terms as a culinary antinomy. Informed by a ‘theories of practice’ approach, the paper presents empirical evidence from ethnographically-informed research on everyday consumption practices in the UK to demonstrate how convenience foods can be used as an expression of care rather than as its antithesis. The paper uses Fisher and Tronto’s theorisation of caring about, taking care of, caregiving and care-receiving to draw out the dynamics of this morally contested social practice.

Keywords: Convenience food; care; culinary antinomies; practice theory; moralization of food (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0308518X17717725

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