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Food Practices and Social Inequality - Looking at Food Practices and Taste across the Class Divide (Paperback)
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Food Practices and Social Inequality - Looking at Food Practices and Taste across the Class Divide (Paperback)
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Policy-related, academic and populist accounts of the relationship
between food and class tend to reproduce a dichotomy that
privileges either middle-class discerning taste or working-class
necessity. Taking a markedly different approach, this collection
explores the classed cultures of food practices across the spectrum
of social stratification. Eschewing assumptions about the tastes
(or lack thereof) of low-income consumers, the authors call
attention to the diverse, complex forms of critical creativity and
cultural capital employed by individuals, families and communities
in their attempts to acquire and prepare food that is both healthy
and desirable. The collection includes research carried out in the
United States, Canada, Mexico and Denmark, and covers diverse
contexts, from the intense insecurity of food deserts to the
relative security of social democratic states. Through quantitative
and qualitative cross-class comparisons, and ethnographic accounts
of low-income experiences and practices, the authors examine the
ways in which food practices and preferences are inflected by
social class (alone, and in combination with gender, ethnicity and
urban/rural location). The collection underlines the simultaneous
need for the development of a more nuanced, dynamic account of the
tastes and cultural competences of socially disadvantaged groups,
and for structural critiques of the gross inequalities in the
degrees of freedom with which different individuals and groups
engage in food practices. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Food, Culture & Society.
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