Food for Thought, Thought for Food

Consumption, Identity, and Ethnography

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2365337
AutoresElizabeth Cherry (0000-0001-6617-7229, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, USA,, autor de correspondencia), Colter Ellis (0000-0003-2151-9971, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA), Michaela Desoucey (0000-0003-1183-402X, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)
Año2011
Volumen40
Número2
Páginas231-258
Fecha de publicación2011-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241610379122
OpenAlexW2018124226
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas51

Movements associated with lifestyle and consumption politics have gained increasing visibility in society and in sociological research, but scholars' methodological insights for studying these issues have lagged behind. How might the lifestyles and consumption practices of researchers themselves shape data collection, and how might these movements affect researchers? The authors offer a collaborative, reflexive analysis of their experiences conducting fieldwork on three different consumption movements centered on food production. Building on feminist and symbolic interactionist methodological literature, they show how their own "consumption identities" affected their data collection, analyses, and written work. The authors also discuss how conducting research on consumption and lifestyle movements may also affect researchers' own identities and practices. They conclude by discussing how their process of "collaborative reflexivity" brings new insight into feminist methodological concerns for reflexivity

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Consumption (sociology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Communication · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Wine Industry and Tourism