Everyday food practices : commercialisation and consumption in the periphery of the Global North

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    • Sebastian, Tarunna

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Everyday food practices : commercialisation and consumption in the periphery of the Global North

Tarunna Sebastian

(Anthropology of well-being : individual, community, society)

Lexington Books, c2021

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-207) and index

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In Everyday Food Practices, Tarunna Sebastian explores the teaching and learning dimensions of people's food choices and practices as they are played out in their everyday lives and local community. Using multi-sited critical ethnographic methodology, Sebastian followed people on their journeys while planning, shopping, preparing, cooking, and eating food. These journeys reveal that supermarket corporations play a hegemonic role, creating and sustaining class-based diets and cultural dynamics which undermine individual agency. Rebuking corporate hegemony, food education at counter-cultural sites-such as farmers' markets, food cooperatives, and community gardens-seeks to empower people with knowledge and skills derived from socially and environmentally sustainable food curricula. However, class and ethnicity-based patterns of engagement compromise learning at these sites. Sebastian argues that, by contrast, the embodied experiences of inter-generational, home-based food practices are more effective in teaching sustainable cooking skills and the production of healthy meals.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Everyday Food Practices: Commercialisation and Consumption in the Periphery of the Global North Chapter 2: Food Procurement Preferences and Choices Chapter 3: Privileging the Market: Public Pedagogies and Curricula of Food Corporation Chapter 4: Counter-Hegemonic Pedagogies and Curriculum in Food Provision and Practice Chapter 5: Food Preparation, Cooking and Eating Chapter 6: Negotiating and Challenging Pedagogies and Curricula of Food Preparation and Cooking Chapter 7: Corporate Pedagogies and Curricula in Family Kitchens Chapter 8: The Rise of Counter-Hegemonic Pedagogies and Curricula of Food in the Global South Conclusion

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