L Gvion
Biographic Data
| ID | 9032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Gvion |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Gvion |
| SIGNATURE | GVION L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1546-9170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
From traditional and ethnic to modern and nationless
This article examines meanings that citizens of Israel, who self-identify as Palestinians or Arabs (P&ACIs), instill into veganism and how they mobilize it to obscure their ethnicity and facilitate venues for improving their social positioning in Israel. It argues that the practice of veganism complicates the distinction between traditional and modern food practices. Although Palestinian and Arab cuisines are rich in plant-based dishes, which veg…
What do vegans know and how do they learn? Veganism as a social text and a form of knowledge
This paper suggests looking at veganism as a set of knowledge that produces and reproduces habitual food practices and changes in semiotic habits and the meanings attached to foods. A semiotic analysis of veganism as a system of knowledge suggests its being a translated text that recognizes scientific and medical knowledge and the non-vegan alimentary system. However, it reconfigures them by communicating a series of signs whose meanings reverse …
Vegan restaurants in Israel
As the number of Israeli vegans grows, so do the restaurants that cater to them. In this context, this article looks at how vegan restaurateurs in Tel Aviv construct discourses on veganism. Rather than emphasizing the uniqueness and distinctiveness of veganism, these restaurants tend to contextualize it as part of two complementing discourses: the discourse of health and the discourse of environmentalism. By contextualizing veganism in discourses…
The Kitchen as a Modernizing Space
This article looks at the ways by which domestic food practices enable professional Palestinian women who are citizens of Israel to position themselves as modern and entitled to participation and social acceptance in Israeli society, if only as individuals. In this process, domestic kitchens become spaces for female agency. Two sets of culinary capital are accumulated – the traditional and the modern – each involving a different relation to food …
Generation V
This study asks how and why veganism becomes a way of constructing generational identities and worldviews. Focusing on Israeli millennial vegans, I argue that veganism enables millennials to constitute a generational mode of thought that differentiates them from preceding generations through three interrelated practices: replacing evidence-based knowledge with other types of information, based on personal experience and consensual agreement among…
Singing Your Way out of the Closet
Little has been written about the reasons gay men choose opera as a venue for professional achievement and social acceptance. Espousing an ethnographic approach, the current article sets out to question their motives. Applying Bourdieu’s concepts of field, cultural capital and habitus, I suggest looking at the opera as a cultural setting, which provides young gay men with a venue for coming out of the closet and, should they be talented and metic…
Why can’t Palestinian chefs penetrate the boundaries of upscale dining in Israel
Ethnic and professional identities are generally viewed as incongruent. While ethnic cooking is seen as a reproduction of unaltered native dishes, professional cooking raises anticipation of invented culinary novelties. This study asks why Palestinian chefs fail to reconfigure ethnicity as an invaluable asset that enables their restaurant to partake in the realm of haute dining in Israel. The reconfiguration of Palestinian culinary knowledge as s…
Incorporating the home into the restaurant kitchen
This study looks at the ways in which Israeli female chefs interpret professional cookery and mobilize their position to form feminine restaurant spaces, in which they instill their professional agenda. Israeli female chefs, we argue, maintain that their gender grants them professional flexibility to construct cooking spaces where alternative working norms apply and certain privileges, such as a flexibility to establish cooking spaces that do not…
Resourcefulness, advocacy, gratitude
This article looks at the experience of Mizrahi contestants in Master Chef Israel as exemplifying the limitations certain ethnicities impose on the incorporation of native culinary knowledge into the realm of haute cuisine. It also considers how such ethnicities can serve as obstacles to winning reality television shows. Specifically, I ask how Mizrahi participants can use their ethnicity explicitly within the context of reality TV to negotiate t…
Imagine you are auditioning for the Viennese opera”
Being neither one-to-one classes nor concerts, masterclasses for opera singers are considered locales that provide young singers with an opportunity to perform for a highly esteemed figure in the hopes that the master’s feedback will improve their future performances. However, masterclasses can also be looked at as social texts that read through the means of assessing young trainees on the basis of their potential acceptance into the internationa…
Space, gentrification and traditional open-air markets
Space is often believed to lose its importance in the global era as individuals cease to interact face-to-face in favor of online communication. Studying the Carmel market located in city center Tel Aviv, Israel aims to show how space, in a global city, is constantly produced, reproduced, and transformed in reaction to the changes in the community that uses the space and remains an invaluable resource for its users. By specifying the vendors' per…
If you ever saw an Opera singer naked’
This article analyzes the process by which a singer’s body is turned into an instrument that produces music. Through practice, singers develop bodily habits and a ‘corporal memory’ consisting of techniques, sensations and positions, all of which are used reflexively when singing. This ‘tool kit’ enables singers to deconstruct their bodies, mobilizing necessary bodily functions and synchronizing them to meet the requirements of the musical text. U…
The Changing Significance of Cooking and Meals for Kibbutz Women
The communal dining hall of the kibbutz was meant to allow women to participate in the construction of an egalitarian society. Moreover, it constituted a social apparatus for reinforcing conformity with the kibbutz ideology. Its outsourcing to non-resident professional caterers that provided meals for which members had to pay, followed by its closure, made women undertake the daily chores of food preparation. This article contends that women inte…
Intertwining Tradition with Modernity
Palestinian restaurants in Israel are settings that express modernity incorporating traditional practices. Their operation rests on social capital, taste and memories long coded in Arab culture and history. These codes construct the restaurant as an authentic space from a Palestinian point of view as their menus reveal the social relations embedded in the production and consumption of food, tastes and bodily practices characteristic of Palestinia…
Higher education as a means of constructing a Russian ethnicity in Israel
The article focuses on the meaning college students, who were born in the Former Soviet Union and immigrated to Israel between their 8th and 16th birthday, assign to higher education. It contends that higher education becomes a marker of Russian ethnicity in Israel. Aiming to compensate for their parents’ downward social and professional mobility, the students express pragmatic motives in their choice of majors for the prestigious occupations and…
Cooking, Food, and Masculinity
This article examines the relationships between food and masculinity as experienced by Palestinian men, citizens of Israel. Their preoccupation with food reveals issues of masculinity and identity via two complementary streams. By defining domestic cooking as a feminine task, Palestinian men strengthen their domination over women. Conversely, in the public sphere, men use cooking as a means of breadwinning. Their cooking intertwines with issues o…
What's Cooking in America
This study looks at cookbooks published in the United States as narrators of ethnicity. It contends that cookbooks are social texts through which ethnic culinary knowledge is articulated into the dominant culture. Cookbooks reveal the means through which ethnicity is detached from its holders, modified by agencies of the dominant culture and reassigned an ethnic version. Through this process, food writers reduce ethnicity to the level of practica…
Organised leisure as promoting nostalgia
This article claims that leisure activities are major vehicles for promoting nostalgia, expressing and propagating cultures whose practitioners are gradually decreasing in numbers. It underlies the meanings, which middle‐class senior citizens in Israel assign to sing‐along nights in Yiddish. These evenings indicate the extent to which structured leisure activities have turned into social worlds, which allow longing for those old experiences repla…
Narrating Modernity and Tradition
This article looks at Palestinian cuisine in Israel as revealing negotiations over inclusion and self-identification of Palestinians in Israel. By sustaining culinary practices and transmitting them from one generation to the next, Palestinians become active agents who construct and negotiate their cultural differentiation and entitlement to ethnic distinctiveness. This course of action is taking place in two complementary spheres. By applying th…
Dancing bodies, decaying bodies
This article examines the meaning Israeli female dancers assign to extra-thin bodies. It claims that dancers interpret extra-thinness as an essential tool for the making of an ideal body-machine which allows entrance to a professional world of dancers. Working in a demanding professional world, anorexic bodies are seen by dancers as indicators of success and commitment. It is a means to win recognition from significant others and make the most ou…
From Spaghetti and Meatballs through Hawaiian Pizza to Sushi
The Coming of the Young and Sexy Lesbian
This paper deals with the ways in which young Israeli lesbians use their bodies in order to detach themselves from both straight women and the older generation of lesbians. They make use of bodily cultural codes borrowed from the mainstream youth culture, yet modified in articulation with the lesbian subculture. The manipulation of codes brings forward the complexity of their age/gender/sexual identity as dictated by the postmodern era. The study…
Cuisines of poverty as means of empowerment
The 'Pygmalion Syndrome'
This article examines the mobilization of a lesbian identity in Israeli society by Mizrachi lesbians as a means to reach individual mobility through establishing social contacts with educated well-off professional Ashkenazi women. Based on interviews with ethnic lesbians living in steady relationships with educated professional women of the dominant group and with some of their partners, this study investigates how Mizrachi lesbians shoulder asid…
Feminine but Not Femme
This paper deals with the ways in which young educated Israeli lesbians construct their bodies, disregarding the traditional categories based on binary criteria such as butch/femme. The "lack of codes" is deconstructed in order to bring forward their complexity and their adherence to the postmodern era. The results, based on 50 in-depth interviews, point to the young lesbians' tendency to unify within their bodies two trends: one that allows the …
Cuisines of poverty as means of empowerment
Organised leisure as promoting nostalgia
This article claims that leisure activities are major vehicles for promoting nostalgia, expressing and propagating cultures whose practitioners are gradually decreasing in numbers. It underlies the meanings, which middle‐class senior citizens in Israel assign to sing‐along nights in Yiddish. These evenings indicate the extent to which structured leisure activities have turned into social worlds, which allow longing for those old experiences repla…
From Spaghetti and Meatballs through Hawaiian Pizza to Sushi
Feminine but Not Femme
This paper deals with the ways in which young educated Israeli lesbians construct their bodies, disregarding the traditional categories based on binary criteria such as butch/femme. The "lack of codes" is deconstructed in order to bring forward their complexity and their adherence to the postmodern era. The results, based on 50 in-depth interviews, point to the young lesbians' tendency to unify within their bodies two trends: one that allows the …
Generation V
This study asks how and why veganism becomes a way of constructing generational identities and worldviews. Focusing on Israeli millennial vegans, I argue that veganism enables millennials to constitute a generational mode of thought that differentiates them from preceding generations through three interrelated practices: replacing evidence-based knowledge with other types of information, based on personal experience and consensual agreement among…
Narrating Modernity and Tradition
This article looks at Palestinian cuisine in Israel as revealing negotiations over inclusion and self-identification of Palestinians in Israel. By sustaining culinary practices and transmitting them from one generation to the next, Palestinians become active agents who construct and negotiate their cultural differentiation and entitlement to ethnic distinctiveness. This course of action is taking place in two complementary spheres. By applying th…
Cooking, Food, and Masculinity
This article examines the relationships between food and masculinity as experienced by Palestinian men, citizens of Israel. Their preoccupation with food reveals issues of masculinity and identity via two complementary streams. By defining domestic cooking as a feminine task, Palestinian men strengthen their domination over women. Conversely, in the public sphere, men use cooking as a means of breadwinning. Their cooking intertwines with issues o…
Dancing bodies, decaying bodies
This article examines the meaning Israeli female dancers assign to extra-thin bodies. It claims that dancers interpret extra-thinness as an essential tool for the making of an ideal body-machine which allows entrance to a professional world of dancers. Working in a demanding professional world, anorexic bodies are seen by dancers as indicators of success and commitment. It is a means to win recognition from significant others and make the most ou…
Who's afraid of cooking vegetables? Changing conceptions of American vegetarianism 18501990
This essay examines the changing attitude toward vegetarianism in America in the second half of the nineteenth century and in the twentieth century. Vegetarianism in America has never effectively challenged the primacy of meat in American cuisine. Instead it recurrently centres on the ability to dress meatless dishes in the image of meat and on decontextualizing, appropriating and recontextualizing vegetarian dishes into meat-oriented cuisine. Th…
Incorporating the home into the restaurant kitchen
This study looks at the ways in which Israeli female chefs interpret professional cookery and mobilize their position to form feminine restaurant spaces, in which they instill their professional agenda. Israeli female chefs, we argue, maintain that their gender grants them professional flexibility to construct cooking spaces where alternative working norms apply and certain privileges, such as a flexibility to establish cooking spaces that do not…
Space, gentrification and traditional open-air markets
Space is often believed to lose its importance in the global era as individuals cease to interact face-to-face in favor of online communication. Studying the Carmel market located in city center Tel Aviv, Israel aims to show how space, in a global city, is constantly produced, reproduced, and transformed in reaction to the changes in the community that uses the space and remains an invaluable resource for its users. By specifying the vendors' per…
If you ever saw an Opera singer naked’
This article analyzes the process by which a singer’s body is turned into an instrument that produces music. Through practice, singers develop bodily habits and a ‘corporal memory’ consisting of techniques, sensations and positions, all of which are used reflexively when singing. This ‘tool kit’ enables singers to deconstruct their bodies, mobilizing necessary bodily functions and synchronizing them to meet the requirements of the musical text. U…
The Changing Significance of Cooking and Meals for Kibbutz Women
The communal dining hall of the kibbutz was meant to allow women to participate in the construction of an egalitarian society. Moreover, it constituted a social apparatus for reinforcing conformity with the kibbutz ideology. Its outsourcing to non-resident professional caterers that provided meals for which members had to pay, followed by its closure, made women undertake the daily chores of food preparation. This article contends that women inte…
Intertwining Tradition with Modernity
Palestinian restaurants in Israel are settings that express modernity incorporating traditional practices. Their operation rests on social capital, taste and memories long coded in Arab culture and history. These codes construct the restaurant as an authentic space from a Palestinian point of view as their menus reveal the social relations embedded in the production and consumption of food, tastes and bodily practices characteristic of Palestinia…
Higher education as a means of constructing a Russian ethnicity in Israel
The article focuses on the meaning college students, who were born in the Former Soviet Union and immigrated to Israel between their 8th and 16th birthday, assign to higher education. It contends that higher education becomes a marker of Russian ethnicity in Israel. Aiming to compensate for their parents’ downward social and professional mobility, the students express pragmatic motives in their choice of majors for the prestigious occupations and…
What's Cooking in America
This study looks at cookbooks published in the United States as narrators of ethnicity. It contends that cookbooks are social texts through which ethnic culinary knowledge is articulated into the dominant culture. Cookbooks reveal the means through which ethnicity is detached from its holders, modified by agencies of the dominant culture and reassigned an ethnic version. Through this process, food writers reduce ethnicity to the level of practica…
The Coming of the Young and Sexy Lesbian
This paper deals with the ways in which young Israeli lesbians use their bodies in order to detach themselves from both straight women and the older generation of lesbians. They make use of bodily cultural codes borrowed from the mainstream youth culture, yet modified in articulation with the lesbian subculture. The manipulation of codes brings forward the complexity of their age/gender/sexual identity as dictated by the postmodern era. The study…
Vegan restaurants in Israel
As the number of Israeli vegans grows, so do the restaurants that cater to them. In this context, this article looks at how vegan restaurateurs in Tel Aviv construct discourses on veganism. Rather than emphasizing the uniqueness and distinctiveness of veganism, these restaurants tend to contextualize it as part of two complementing discourses: the discourse of health and the discourse of environmentalism. By contextualizing veganism in discourses…
The Kitchen as a Modernizing Space
This article looks at the ways by which domestic food practices enable professional Palestinian women who are citizens of Israel to position themselves as modern and entitled to participation and social acceptance in Israeli society, if only as individuals. In this process, domestic kitchens become spaces for female agency. Two sets of culinary capital are accumulated – the traditional and the modern – each involving a different relation to food …
Singing Your Way out of the Closet
Little has been written about the reasons gay men choose opera as a venue for professional achievement and social acceptance. Espousing an ethnographic approach, the current article sets out to question their motives. Applying Bourdieu’s concepts of field, cultural capital and habitus, I suggest looking at the opera as a cultural setting, which provides young gay men with a venue for coming out of the closet and, should they be talented and metic…
Why can’t Palestinian chefs penetrate the boundaries of upscale dining in Israel
Ethnic and professional identities are generally viewed as incongruent. While ethnic cooking is seen as a reproduction of unaltered native dishes, professional cooking raises anticipation of invented culinary novelties. This study asks why Palestinian chefs fail to reconfigure ethnicity as an invaluable asset that enables their restaurant to partake in the realm of haute dining in Israel. The reconfiguration of Palestinian culinary knowledge as s…
Resourcefulness, advocacy, gratitude
This article looks at the experience of Mizrahi contestants in Master Chef Israel as exemplifying the limitations certain ethnicities impose on the incorporation of native culinary knowledge into the realm of haute cuisine. It also considers how such ethnicities can serve as obstacles to winning reality television shows. Specifically, I ask how Mizrahi participants can use their ethnicity explicitly within the context of reality TV to negotiate t…
Who's afraid of cooking vegetables? Changing conceptions of American vegetarianism 18501990
This essay examines the changing attitude toward vegetarianism in America in the second half of the nineteenth century and in the twentieth century. Vegetarianism in America has never effectively challenged the primacy of meat in American cuisine. Instead it recurrently centres on the ability to dress meatless dishes in the image of meat and on decontextualizing, appropriating and recontextualizing vegetarian dishes into meat-oriented cuisine. Th…
The 'Pygmalion Syndrome'
This article examines the mobilization of a lesbian identity in Israeli society by Mizrachi lesbians as a means to reach individual mobility through establishing social contacts with educated well-off professional Ashkenazi women. Based on interviews with ethnic lesbians living in steady relationships with educated professional women of the dominant group and with some of their partners, this study investigates how Mizrachi lesbians shoulder asid…
Feminine but Not Femme
This paper deals with the ways in which young educated Israeli lesbians construct their bodies, disregarding the traditional categories based on binary criteria such as butch/femme. The "lack of codes" is deconstructed in order to bring forward their complexity and their adherence to the postmodern era. The results, based on 50 in-depth interviews, point to the young lesbians' tendency to unify within their bodies two trends: one that allows the …
Cuisines of poverty as means of empowerment
The Coming of the Young and Sexy Lesbian
This paper deals with the ways in which young Israeli lesbians use their bodies in order to detach themselves from both straight women and the older generation of lesbians. They make use of bodily cultural codes borrowed from the mainstream youth culture, yet modified in articulation with the lesbian subculture. The manipulation of codes brings forward the complexity of their age/gender/sexual identity as dictated by the postmodern era. The study…
Dancing bodies, decaying bodies
This article examines the meaning Israeli female dancers assign to extra-thin bodies. It claims that dancers interpret extra-thinness as an essential tool for the making of an ideal body-machine which allows entrance to a professional world of dancers. Working in a demanding professional world, anorexic bodies are seen by dancers as indicators of success and commitment. It is a means to win recognition from significant others and make the most ou…
From Spaghetti and Meatballs through Hawaiian Pizza to Sushi
What's Cooking in America
This study looks at cookbooks published in the United States as narrators of ethnicity. It contends that cookbooks are social texts through which ethnic culinary knowledge is articulated into the dominant culture. Cookbooks reveal the means through which ethnicity is detached from its holders, modified by agencies of the dominant culture and reassigned an ethnic version. Through this process, food writers reduce ethnicity to the level of practica…
Organised leisure as promoting nostalgia
This article claims that leisure activities are major vehicles for promoting nostalgia, expressing and propagating cultures whose practitioners are gradually decreasing in numbers. It underlies the meanings, which middle‐class senior citizens in Israel assign to sing‐along nights in Yiddish. These evenings indicate the extent to which structured leisure activities have turned into social worlds, which allow longing for those old experiences repla…
Narrating Modernity and Tradition
This article looks at Palestinian cuisine in Israel as revealing negotiations over inclusion and self-identification of Palestinians in Israel. By sustaining culinary practices and transmitting them from one generation to the next, Palestinians become active agents who construct and negotiate their cultural differentiation and entitlement to ethnic distinctiveness. This course of action is taking place in two complementary spheres. By applying th…
Higher education as a means of constructing a Russian ethnicity in Israel
The article focuses on the meaning college students, who were born in the Former Soviet Union and immigrated to Israel between their 8th and 16th birthday, assign to higher education. It contends that higher education becomes a marker of Russian ethnicity in Israel. Aiming to compensate for their parents’ downward social and professional mobility, the students express pragmatic motives in their choice of majors for the prestigious occupations and…
Cooking, Food, and Masculinity
This article examines the relationships between food and masculinity as experienced by Palestinian men, citizens of Israel. Their preoccupation with food reveals issues of masculinity and identity via two complementary streams. By defining domestic cooking as a feminine task, Palestinian men strengthen their domination over women. Conversely, in the public sphere, men use cooking as a means of breadwinning. Their cooking intertwines with issues o…
Intertwining Tradition with Modernity
Palestinian restaurants in Israel are settings that express modernity incorporating traditional practices. Their operation rests on social capital, taste and memories long coded in Arab culture and history. These codes construct the restaurant as an authentic space from a Palestinian point of view as their menus reveal the social relations embedded in the production and consumption of food, tastes and bodily practices characteristic of Palestinia…
If you ever saw an Opera singer naked’
This article analyzes the process by which a singer’s body is turned into an instrument that produces music. Through practice, singers develop bodily habits and a ‘corporal memory’ consisting of techniques, sensations and positions, all of which are used reflexively when singing. This ‘tool kit’ enables singers to deconstruct their bodies, mobilizing necessary bodily functions and synchronizing them to meet the requirements of the musical text. U…
The Changing Significance of Cooking and Meals for Kibbutz Women
The communal dining hall of the kibbutz was meant to allow women to participate in the construction of an egalitarian society. Moreover, it constituted a social apparatus for reinforcing conformity with the kibbutz ideology. Its outsourcing to non-resident professional caterers that provided meals for which members had to pay, followed by its closure, made women undertake the daily chores of food preparation. This article contends that women inte…
Space, gentrification and traditional open-air markets
Space is often believed to lose its importance in the global era as individuals cease to interact face-to-face in favor of online communication. Studying the Carmel market located in city center Tel Aviv, Israel aims to show how space, in a global city, is constantly produced, reproduced, and transformed in reaction to the changes in the community that uses the space and remains an invaluable resource for its users. By specifying the vendors' per…
Resourcefulness, advocacy, gratitude
This article looks at the experience of Mizrahi contestants in Master Chef Israel as exemplifying the limitations certain ethnicities impose on the incorporation of native culinary knowledge into the realm of haute cuisine. It also considers how such ethnicities can serve as obstacles to winning reality television shows. Specifically, I ask how Mizrahi participants can use their ethnicity explicitly within the context of reality TV to negotiate t…
Imagine you are auditioning for the Viennese opera”
Being neither one-to-one classes nor concerts, masterclasses for opera singers are considered locales that provide young singers with an opportunity to perform for a highly esteemed figure in the hopes that the master’s feedback will improve their future performances. However, masterclasses can also be looked at as social texts that read through the means of assessing young trainees on the basis of their potential acceptance into the internationa…
Singing Your Way out of the Closet
Little has been written about the reasons gay men choose opera as a venue for professional achievement and social acceptance. Espousing an ethnographic approach, the current article sets out to question their motives. Applying Bourdieu’s concepts of field, cultural capital and habitus, I suggest looking at the opera as a cultural setting, which provides young gay men with a venue for coming out of the closet and, should they be talented and metic…
Why can’t Palestinian chefs penetrate the boundaries of upscale dining in Israel
Ethnic and professional identities are generally viewed as incongruent. While ethnic cooking is seen as a reproduction of unaltered native dishes, professional cooking raises anticipation of invented culinary novelties. This study asks why Palestinian chefs fail to reconfigure ethnicity as an invaluable asset that enables their restaurant to partake in the realm of haute dining in Israel. The reconfiguration of Palestinian culinary knowledge as s…
Incorporating the home into the restaurant kitchen
This study looks at the ways in which Israeli female chefs interpret professional cookery and mobilize their position to form feminine restaurant spaces, in which they instill their professional agenda. Israeli female chefs, we argue, maintain that their gender grants them professional flexibility to construct cooking spaces where alternative working norms apply and certain privileges, such as a flexibility to establish cooking spaces that do not…
The Kitchen as a Modernizing Space
This article looks at the ways by which domestic food practices enable professional Palestinian women who are citizens of Israel to position themselves as modern and entitled to participation and social acceptance in Israeli society, if only as individuals. In this process, domestic kitchens become spaces for female agency. Two sets of culinary capital are accumulated – the traditional and the modern – each involving a different relation to food …
Generation V
This study asks how and why veganism becomes a way of constructing generational identities and worldviews. Focusing on Israeli millennial vegans, I argue that veganism enables millennials to constitute a generational mode of thought that differentiates them from preceding generations through three interrelated practices: replacing evidence-based knowledge with other types of information, based on personal experience and consensual agreement among…
Vegan restaurants in Israel
As the number of Israeli vegans grows, so do the restaurants that cater to them. In this context, this article looks at how vegan restaurateurs in Tel Aviv construct discourses on veganism. Rather than emphasizing the uniqueness and distinctiveness of veganism, these restaurants tend to contextualize it as part of two complementing discourses: the discourse of health and the discourse of environmentalism. By contextualizing veganism in discourses…
What do vegans know and how do they learn? Veganism as a social text and a form of knowledge
This paper suggests looking at veganism as a set of knowledge that produces and reproduces habitual food practices and changes in semiotic habits and the meanings attached to foods. A semiotic analysis of veganism as a system of knowledge suggests its being a translated text that recognizes scientific and medical knowledge and the non-vegan alimentary system. However, it reconfigures them by communicating a series of signs whose meanings reverse …
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