Benedetta Cappellini
Biographic Data
| ID | 176489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benedetta Cappellini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benedetta |
| FAMILY NAME | Cappellini |
| SIGNATURE | CAPPELLINI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4433-4710 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Happy to chat? Understanding older people’s attitudes and experiences of talking to strangers
Extant literature shows that small conversations with strangers can help improve individuals’ wellbeing while reducing feelings of loneliness. Nevertheless, previous studies on talking to strangers tend to focus on young participants in controlled experimental settings, leaving a gap in understanding older adults’ experiences and their likelihood of adopting talking to strangers as part of their daily healthy ageing practices. Considering the pro…
Reconfiguring Migrant Meals and Doing Family: A Practice Theory Approach
Drawing on ethnographic research with six migrant families, this article explores how they reconfigure meal practices to stabilise family identity. The findings investigate three facets of the reconfiguration process: the reconfiguration of material arrangements; the reconfiguration of rhythms and spatial arrangements; and practitioners' changing enrolments across practice bundles such as parenting and working. We argue that there is a set of mac…
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom
This article investigates how conflicts emerge and unfold among newly cohabiting couples during the daily practices of making and sharing dinner. Adopting a 'moments approach', findings from an ethnographic study involving 12 couples reveal how conflictual moments emerge from clashes between individuals' dispositions regarding responsibilities (who does what), standards (what is appropriate) and techniques (how things are done). Clashes are refle…
Feeding grandchildren: Competing priorities and blurred relational boundaries
With grandparents providing increasing amounts of childcare, through the lens of food, this paper explores how the provision of regular childcare may be blurring the boundaries of the grandmother role. Drawing on semi-structured, photo elicitation interviews with 23 white British grandparents who regularly look after their grandchildren aged 11 years and under, we demonstrate that there were sometimes competing priorities and tensions between gra…
Primary school children's responses to food waste at school
Purpose This paper seeks to understand children’s responses to food waste in school by exploring children’s views on food waste and empowering them to discuss and develop their own solutions. Design/methodology/approach Using creative problem-solving approach and photovoice technique, the authors conducted focus group discussions with 28 primary school children in the UK. Findings Children have a clear understanding of the consequences of food wa…
Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture
This article explores the ways in which the intensification of parenting and the notion of children at risk have influenced grandmothers' narratives and practices. Interviews with grandmothers who regularly look after their grandchildren, reveal that their practices are framed around the notions of children to be protected, educated and entertained. Such notions reveal that aspects of grandmothers' roles as protectors, educators, playmates and co…
Family Practices and Temporality at Breakfast: Hot Spots, Convenience and Care
Drawing on 34 semi-structured interviews, this study investigates the temporality of family practices taking place in the hot spot. It does so by looking at how breakfast is inserted in the economy of family time in Italy. Our data show that breakfast, contrary to other meals, allows the adoption of more individualised and asynchronous practices, hinged on the consumption of convenience products. These time-saving strategies are normalised as par…
Subjectivities in motion: Dichotomies in consumer engagements with self-tracking technologies
Foodwork and foodcare in hard times: Mothering, value, and values
In this article, we analyze the foodwork of mothers when feeding their families on low and reduced incomes. By exploring their accounts of food shopping and household budgeting, we argue that foodwork is intrinsically linked to other areas of social life and dominant values associated with “good mothering.” Through a careful consideration of the contexts and relations in which foodwork is valued, embedded, and made meaningful, we draw two key con…
Intensive mothering in hard times: Foucauldian ethical self-formation and cruel optimism
Discourses of intensive mothering now seem to dominate European and American parenting cultures. This is a problem for those mothers who do not currently possess the resources to match up. In a study of Italian and British mothers who are experiencing low or reduced incomes, we observe the ways in which they internalize intensive mothering discourses through a process of ethical self-formation. This mode of self-formation involves detailed self-s…
Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection
This paper provides a reflection on the use of visual art workshops in an interdisciplinary feminist project with female survivors of domestic violence living in refuges in England and Portugal. The paper discusses the fieldwork in each location with attention to the interaction between participants, between participants and the researcher/s, and the cultural and institutional structures influencing the research and the images produced. Despite s…
Food consumption when travelling abroad: Young Chinese sojourners' food consumption in the UK
This qualitative study investigates the everyday food choices of 21 Chinese sojourners living in two different localities in the UK. Findings from a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews reveal how participants adopt a food consumption pattern, negotiating between ordinary and extraordinary food choices, including home-made Chinese food, Chinese restaurant food, global brands, British food, to "foods of the world". Their zooming in and …
Unpacking the lunchbox: Biopedagogies, Mothering and Social Class
This study investigates how mothers respond to school surveillance of their children's packed lunches. In a context where increasing attention is focused on healthy eating, we adopt a biopedagogical approach to illustrate different positions and strategies which mothers occupy in relation to feeding their children in the school setting. We use photo-elicitation interviews and focus groups to trace both the discursive and practical significance of…
Boxed up? Lunchboxes and expansive mothering
This article unpacks the experiences of 30 British women making lunchboxes for their children, and their opposition to opting for school dinners. Findings emerging from photo-elicitation interviews and focus group discussions show how mothers consider themselves the only social actor able to make a ‘proper lunchbox’. School dinners are considered a risky option for their children, and fathers’ interference in preparing lunchboxes is viewed with s…
Right Taste, Wrong Place: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Classed Identity
This article investigates how culinary taste contributes to the formation of middle class identity in a working class context in the UK. We explore practices of food consumption among a group of individuals working at a UK university located in a working class city. We find a rather limited and discrepant cosmopolitanism, in which culinary practices are evaluated in terms of those worth engaging in, and those not worth engaging in, based on their…
Ethics
This article provides a discussion of ethics as a general normative enquiry regarding good or bad actions. After discussing the differences between ethics and moral, it gives an overview of the main ethical theories. Teleological and deontological theories are presented. They are followed by the most recent ethical theories such as postmodern ethics theories, feminist theories, and ethical theories based on procedures.
Mothers on Display: Lunchboxes, Social Class and Moral Accountability
This article explores middle class mothers' narratives on their daily routines of preparing lunchboxes for their children. In this study lunchboxes are understood as an artefact linking together discourses and practices of doing and displaying mothering, media and government discourses of feeding children and broader issues of care and surveillance in private and public settings. Drawing on semi-structured, photo elicitation interviews and a focu…
Constructing the culinary consumer: Transformative and reflective processes in Italian cookbooks
This paper explores how culinary texts operate in both performative and transformative senses in relation to wider societal norms of gender and cultural capital. As such, the paper explores changes to the way in which the culinary consumer is presented in British Italian cookbooks from 1954 to 2005. Across the period, we see a shift in the gendered representation of the culinary subject, from a housewife in the period 1954–1974, to a working moth…
Practising Thrift at Dinnertime: Mealtime Leftovers, Sacrifice and Family Membership
Exploring our relationship with mealtime leftovers tells us a lot about not only our relationships with waste, but with one another, in the home. In our study of British mealtimes we explore how leftovers are transformed and reused as meals. We refer to theories of disposal in exploring the skills involved in transforming leftovers. We also explore the motivations behind these transformations. Drawing on the work of Miller (1998) we examine how t…
Mothers on Display: Lunchboxes, Social Class and Moral Accountability
This article explores middle class mothers' narratives on their daily routines of preparing lunchboxes for their children. In this study lunchboxes are understood as an artefact linking together discourses and practices of doing and displaying mothering, media and government discourses of feeding children and broader issues of care and surveillance in private and public settings. Drawing on semi-structured, photo elicitation interviews and a focu…
Intensive mothering in hard times: Foucauldian ethical self-formation and cruel optimism
Discourses of intensive mothering now seem to dominate European and American parenting cultures. This is a problem for those mothers who do not currently possess the resources to match up. In a study of Italian and British mothers who are experiencing low or reduced incomes, we observe the ways in which they internalize intensive mothering discourses through a process of ethical self-formation. This mode of self-formation involves detailed self-s…
Foodwork and foodcare in hard times: Mothering, value, and values
In this article, we analyze the foodwork of mothers when feeding their families on low and reduced incomes. By exploring their accounts of food shopping and household budgeting, we argue that foodwork is intrinsically linked to other areas of social life and dominant values associated with “good mothering.” Through a careful consideration of the contexts and relations in which foodwork is valued, embedded, and made meaningful, we draw two key con…
Practising Thrift at Dinnertime: Mealtime Leftovers, Sacrifice and Family Membership
Exploring our relationship with mealtime leftovers tells us a lot about not only our relationships with waste, but with one another, in the home. In our study of British mealtimes we explore how leftovers are transformed and reused as meals. We refer to theories of disposal in exploring the skills involved in transforming leftovers. We also explore the motivations behind these transformations. Drawing on the work of Miller (1998) we examine how t…
Unpacking the lunchbox: Biopedagogies, Mothering and Social Class
This study investigates how mothers respond to school surveillance of their children's packed lunches. In a context where increasing attention is focused on healthy eating, we adopt a biopedagogical approach to illustrate different positions and strategies which mothers occupy in relation to feeding their children in the school setting. We use photo-elicitation interviews and focus groups to trace both the discursive and practical significance of…
Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture
This article explores the ways in which the intensification of parenting and the notion of children at risk have influenced grandmothers' narratives and practices. Interviews with grandmothers who regularly look after their grandchildren, reveal that their practices are framed around the notions of children to be protected, educated and entertained. Such notions reveal that aspects of grandmothers' roles as protectors, educators, playmates and co…
Right Taste, Wrong Place: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Classed Identity
This article investigates how culinary taste contributes to the formation of middle class identity in a working class context in the UK. We explore practices of food consumption among a group of individuals working at a UK university located in a working class city. We find a rather limited and discrepant cosmopolitanism, in which culinary practices are evaluated in terms of those worth engaging in, and those not worth engaging in, based on their…
Family Practices and Temporality at Breakfast: Hot Spots, Convenience and Care
Drawing on 34 semi-structured interviews, this study investigates the temporality of family practices taking place in the hot spot. It does so by looking at how breakfast is inserted in the economy of family time in Italy. Our data show that breakfast, contrary to other meals, allows the adoption of more individualised and asynchronous practices, hinged on the consumption of convenience products. These time-saving strategies are normalised as par…
Constructing the culinary consumer: Transformative and reflective processes in Italian cookbooks
This paper explores how culinary texts operate in both performative and transformative senses in relation to wider societal norms of gender and cultural capital. As such, the paper explores changes to the way in which the culinary consumer is presented in British Italian cookbooks from 1954 to 2005. Across the period, we see a shift in the gendered representation of the culinary subject, from a housewife in the period 1954–1974, to a working moth…
Food consumption when travelling abroad: Young Chinese sojourners' food consumption in the UK
This qualitative study investigates the everyday food choices of 21 Chinese sojourners living in two different localities in the UK. Findings from a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews reveal how participants adopt a food consumption pattern, negotiating between ordinary and extraordinary food choices, including home-made Chinese food, Chinese restaurant food, global brands, British food, to "foods of the world". Their zooming in and …
Boxed up? Lunchboxes and expansive mothering
This article unpacks the experiences of 30 British women making lunchboxes for their children, and their opposition to opting for school dinners. Findings emerging from photo-elicitation interviews and focus group discussions show how mothers consider themselves the only social actor able to make a ‘proper lunchbox’. School dinners are considered a risky option for their children, and fathers’ interference in preparing lunchboxes is viewed with s…
Reconfiguring Migrant Meals and Doing Family: A Practice Theory Approach
Drawing on ethnographic research with six migrant families, this article explores how they reconfigure meal practices to stabilise family identity. The findings investigate three facets of the reconfiguration process: the reconfiguration of material arrangements; the reconfiguration of rhythms and spatial arrangements; and practitioners' changing enrolments across practice bundles such as parenting and working. We argue that there is a set of mac…
Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection
This paper provides a reflection on the use of visual art workshops in an interdisciplinary feminist project with female survivors of domestic violence living in refuges in England and Portugal. The paper discusses the fieldwork in each location with attention to the interaction between participants, between participants and the researcher/s, and the cultural and institutional structures influencing the research and the images produced. Despite s…
Practising Thrift at Dinnertime: Mealtime Leftovers, Sacrifice and Family Membership
Exploring our relationship with mealtime leftovers tells us a lot about not only our relationships with waste, but with one another, in the home. In our study of British mealtimes we explore how leftovers are transformed and reused as meals. We refer to theories of disposal in exploring the skills involved in transforming leftovers. We also explore the motivations behind these transformations. Drawing on the work of Miller (1998) we examine how t…
Constructing the culinary consumer: Transformative and reflective processes in Italian cookbooks
This paper explores how culinary texts operate in both performative and transformative senses in relation to wider societal norms of gender and cultural capital. As such, the paper explores changes to the way in which the culinary consumer is presented in British Italian cookbooks from 1954 to 2005. Across the period, we see a shift in the gendered representation of the culinary subject, from a housewife in the period 1954–1974, to a working moth…
Ethics
This article provides a discussion of ethics as a general normative enquiry regarding good or bad actions. After discussing the differences between ethics and moral, it gives an overview of the main ethical theories. Teleological and deontological theories are presented. They are followed by the most recent ethical theories such as postmodern ethics theories, feminist theories, and ethical theories based on procedures.
Mothers on Display: Lunchboxes, Social Class and Moral Accountability
This article explores middle class mothers' narratives on their daily routines of preparing lunchboxes for their children. In this study lunchboxes are understood as an artefact linking together discourses and practices of doing and displaying mothering, media and government discourses of feeding children and broader issues of care and surveillance in private and public settings. Drawing on semi-structured, photo elicitation interviews and a focu…
Right Taste, Wrong Place: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Classed Identity
This article investigates how culinary taste contributes to the formation of middle class identity in a working class context in the UK. We explore practices of food consumption among a group of individuals working at a UK university located in a working class city. We find a rather limited and discrepant cosmopolitanism, in which culinary practices are evaluated in terms of those worth engaging in, and those not worth engaging in, based on their…
Boxed up? Lunchboxes and expansive mothering
This article unpacks the experiences of 30 British women making lunchboxes for their children, and their opposition to opting for school dinners. Findings emerging from photo-elicitation interviews and focus group discussions show how mothers consider themselves the only social actor able to make a ‘proper lunchbox’. School dinners are considered a risky option for their children, and fathers’ interference in preparing lunchboxes is viewed with s…
Food consumption when travelling abroad: Young Chinese sojourners' food consumption in the UK
This qualitative study investigates the everyday food choices of 21 Chinese sojourners living in two different localities in the UK. Findings from a thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews reveal how participants adopt a food consumption pattern, negotiating between ordinary and extraordinary food choices, including home-made Chinese food, Chinese restaurant food, global brands, British food, to "foods of the world". Their zooming in and …
Unpacking the lunchbox: Biopedagogies, Mothering and Social Class
This study investigates how mothers respond to school surveillance of their children's packed lunches. In a context where increasing attention is focused on healthy eating, we adopt a biopedagogical approach to illustrate different positions and strategies which mothers occupy in relation to feeding their children in the school setting. We use photo-elicitation interviews and focus groups to trace both the discursive and practical significance of…
Intensive mothering in hard times: Foucauldian ethical self-formation and cruel optimism
Discourses of intensive mothering now seem to dominate European and American parenting cultures. This is a problem for those mothers who do not currently possess the resources to match up. In a study of Italian and British mothers who are experiencing low or reduced incomes, we observe the ways in which they internalize intensive mothering discourses through a process of ethical self-formation. This mode of self-formation involves detailed self-s…
Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection
This paper provides a reflection on the use of visual art workshops in an interdisciplinary feminist project with female survivors of domestic violence living in refuges in England and Portugal. The paper discusses the fieldwork in each location with attention to the interaction between participants, between participants and the researcher/s, and the cultural and institutional structures influencing the research and the images produced. Despite s…
Subjectivities in motion: Dichotomies in consumer engagements with self-tracking technologies
Foodwork and foodcare in hard times: Mothering, value, and values
In this article, we analyze the foodwork of mothers when feeding their families on low and reduced incomes. By exploring their accounts of food shopping and household budgeting, we argue that foodwork is intrinsically linked to other areas of social life and dominant values associated with “good mothering.” Through a careful consideration of the contexts and relations in which foodwork is valued, embedded, and made meaningful, we draw two key con…
Primary school children's responses to food waste at school
Purpose This paper seeks to understand children’s responses to food waste in school by exploring children’s views on food waste and empowering them to discuss and develop their own solutions. Design/methodology/approach Using creative problem-solving approach and photovoice technique, the authors conducted focus group discussions with 28 primary school children in the UK. Findings Children have a clear understanding of the consequences of food wa…
Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture
This article explores the ways in which the intensification of parenting and the notion of children at risk have influenced grandmothers' narratives and practices. Interviews with grandmothers who regularly look after their grandchildren, reveal that their practices are framed around the notions of children to be protected, educated and entertained. Such notions reveal that aspects of grandmothers' roles as protectors, educators, playmates and co…
Family Practices and Temporality at Breakfast: Hot Spots, Convenience and Care
Drawing on 34 semi-structured interviews, this study investigates the temporality of family practices taking place in the hot spot. It does so by looking at how breakfast is inserted in the economy of family time in Italy. Our data show that breakfast, contrary to other meals, allows the adoption of more individualised and asynchronous practices, hinged on the consumption of convenience products. These time-saving strategies are normalised as par…
Feeding grandchildren: Competing priorities and blurred relational boundaries
With grandparents providing increasing amounts of childcare, through the lens of food, this paper explores how the provision of regular childcare may be blurring the boundaries of the grandmother role. Drawing on semi-structured, photo elicitation interviews with 23 white British grandparents who regularly look after their grandchildren aged 11 years and under, we demonstrate that there were sometimes competing priorities and tensions between gra…
Happy to chat? Understanding older people’s attitudes and experiences of talking to strangers
Extant literature shows that small conversations with strangers can help improve individuals’ wellbeing while reducing feelings of loneliness. Nevertheless, previous studies on talking to strangers tend to focus on young participants in controlled experimental settings, leaving a gap in understanding older adults’ experiences and their likelihood of adopting talking to strangers as part of their daily healthy ageing practices. Considering the pro…
Reconfiguring Migrant Meals and Doing Family: A Practice Theory Approach
Drawing on ethnographic research with six migrant families, this article explores how they reconfigure meal practices to stabilise family identity. The findings investigate three facets of the reconfiguration process: the reconfiguration of material arrangements; the reconfiguration of rhythms and spatial arrangements; and practitioners' changing enrolments across practice bundles such as parenting and working. We argue that there is a set of mac…
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom
This article investigates how conflicts emerge and unfold among newly cohabiting couples during the daily practices of making and sharing dinner. Adopting a 'moments approach', findings from an ethnographic study involving 12 couples reveal how conflictual moments emerge from clashes between individuals' dispositions regarding responsibilities (who does what), standards (what is appropriate) and techniques (how things are done). Clashes are refle…
Sociology (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works)