Julie M Parsons
Biographic Data
| ID | 284647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie M Parsons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie M |
| FAMILY NAME | Parsons |
| SIGNATURE | PARSONS J M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography
This chapter is the front matter to Section Four: Geography Matters: Spatiality and Auto/Biography; edited by John Barker and Emma Wainwright.
Making time for food when ‘doing time’; how enhanced status prisoners counter the indignity of prison foodways
The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography
Participatory food events as collaborative public engagement opportunities
There is an urgent need to 'get creative' with the way we tackle social and nutritional inequalities. The Food as a Lifestyle Motivator (FLM) project has explored the use of creative participatory approaches to engage 'harder to reach' communities in dialogues to improve their well-being and life skills. Preliminary findings have confirmed that food can be a powerful catalyst for social inclusion with the potential to empower 'marginalised' indiv…
Employing participatory methods to engage an under-researched group: Opportunities and challenges
In this article, we report on our experience of working on an exploratory project where the primary objective was to involve homeless service users with food-based participatory qualitative approaches. The project FLM aimed to explore food experiences and behaviours in a sample of users of homelessness services in a south west UK coastal city, in order to create solutions to improve their wellbeing. A mixture of qualitative methods was used, incl…
The Joy of Food Play – Gender and Class in Men’s auto/biographical Accounts of Everyday Food-ways
The Joy of Food Play – Gender and Class in Men’s auto/biographical Accounts of Everyday Food-ways: This article is informed by research that set out to investigate the relationship between individuals and their everyday food-ways using an auto/biographical research approach. The focus of this articlecentres on the notion of food ‘play’ rather than food ‘work’ as significant in the performance of a gendered cultural habitus, whereby men distanced …
A Fat Girl’s Manifesto: A Thin Book on Living FAT in America, by Cyr V. Daniel
BOOK REVIEW.\nA Fat Girl’s Manifesto, A thin book on living FAT in America, by Cyr V. Daniel. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Peter E. Randall, 2015.\nReviewed by Julie Parsons\nOn the cover of Cyr Daniel’s book is a white woman’s arm raised with fist clenched, reminiscent of the “Rosie the Riveter’ /’We can Do It,” Second World War poster, widely assumed to be a call to women to join the labor market as part of the war effort (1943) and later appropr…
When convenience is inconvenient: Healthy' Family Foodways and the Persistent Intersectionalities of Gender and Class
This article draws on findings from an auto/biographical study about relationships with food to demonstrate how everyday foodways continue to be influenced by the intersectionalities of gender and class. Following Bourdieu [1984. Distinction, a social critique of the judgement of taste. London: Routledge] how ‘foodies’ use food and foodways (the production, preparation, serving and eating of food) as a material and cultural display of capital (Jo…
When convenience is inconvenient: Healthy' Family Foodways and the Persistent Intersectionalities of Gender and Class
This article draws on findings from an auto/biographical study about relationships with food to demonstrate how everyday foodways continue to be influenced by the intersectionalities of gender and class. Following Bourdieu [1984. Distinction, a social critique of the judgement of taste. London: Routledge] how ‘foodies’ use food and foodways (the production, preparation, serving and eating of food) as a material and cultural display of capital (Jo…
Employing participatory methods to engage an under-researched group: Opportunities and challenges
In this article, we report on our experience of working on an exploratory project where the primary objective was to involve homeless service users with food-based participatory qualitative approaches. The project FLM aimed to explore food experiences and behaviours in a sample of users of homelessness services in a south west UK coastal city, in order to create solutions to improve their wellbeing. A mixture of qualitative methods was used, incl…
Making time for food when ‘doing time’; how enhanced status prisoners counter the indignity of prison foodways
Participatory food events as collaborative public engagement opportunities
There is an urgent need to 'get creative' with the way we tackle social and nutritional inequalities. The Food as a Lifestyle Motivator (FLM) project has explored the use of creative participatory approaches to engage 'harder to reach' communities in dialogues to improve their well-being and life skills. Preliminary findings have confirmed that food can be a powerful catalyst for social inclusion with the potential to empower 'marginalised' indiv…
The Joy of Food Play – Gender and Class in Men’s auto/biographical Accounts of Everyday Food-ways
The Joy of Food Play – Gender and Class in Men’s auto/biographical Accounts of Everyday Food-ways: This article is informed by research that set out to investigate the relationship between individuals and their everyday food-ways using an auto/biographical research approach. The focus of this articlecentres on the notion of food ‘play’ rather than food ‘work’ as significant in the performance of a gendered cultural habitus, whereby men distanced …
A Fat Girl’s Manifesto: A Thin Book on Living FAT in America, by Cyr V. Daniel
BOOK REVIEW.\nA Fat Girl’s Manifesto, A thin book on living FAT in America, by Cyr V. Daniel. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Peter E. Randall, 2015.\nReviewed by Julie Parsons\nOn the cover of Cyr Daniel’s book is a white woman’s arm raised with fist clenched, reminiscent of the “Rosie the Riveter’ /’We can Do It,” Second World War poster, widely assumed to be a call to women to join the labor market as part of the war effort (1943) and later appropr…
When convenience is inconvenient: Healthy' Family Foodways and the Persistent Intersectionalities of Gender and Class
This article draws on findings from an auto/biographical study about relationships with food to demonstrate how everyday foodways continue to be influenced by the intersectionalities of gender and class. Following Bourdieu [1984. Distinction, a social critique of the judgement of taste. London: Routledge] how ‘foodies’ use food and foodways (the production, preparation, serving and eating of food) as a material and cultural display of capital (Jo…
The Joy of Food Play – Gender and Class in Men’s auto/biographical Accounts of Everyday Food-ways
The Joy of Food Play – Gender and Class in Men’s auto/biographical Accounts of Everyday Food-ways: This article is informed by research that set out to investigate the relationship between individuals and their everyday food-ways using an auto/biographical research approach. The focus of this articlecentres on the notion of food ‘play’ rather than food ‘work’ as significant in the performance of a gendered cultural habitus, whereby men distanced …
Employing participatory methods to engage an under-researched group: Opportunities and challenges
In this article, we report on our experience of working on an exploratory project where the primary objective was to involve homeless service users with food-based participatory qualitative approaches. The project FLM aimed to explore food experiences and behaviours in a sample of users of homelessness services in a south west UK coastal city, in order to create solutions to improve their wellbeing. A mixture of qualitative methods was used, incl…
Participatory food events as collaborative public engagement opportunities
There is an urgent need to 'get creative' with the way we tackle social and nutritional inequalities. The Food as a Lifestyle Motivator (FLM) project has explored the use of creative participatory approaches to engage 'harder to reach' communities in dialogues to improve their well-being and life skills. Preliminary findings have confirmed that food can be a powerful catalyst for social inclusion with the potential to empower 'marginalised' indiv…
The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography
This chapter is the front matter to Section Four: Geography Matters: Spatiality and Auto/Biography; edited by John Barker and Emma Wainwright.
Making time for food when ‘doing time’; how enhanced status prisoners counter the indignity of prison foodways
The Palgrave Handbook of Auto/Biography
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