Helene Brembeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helene Brembeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helene |
| FAMILY NAME | Brembeck |
| SIGNATURE | BREMBECK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Strange encounters with ice at US motels – and Nordic translations
This essay is a humble attempt to shed some rays of light on the cultural history of the practice of using ice cubes in drinks, its past, present and to some extent future. Departing from the author’s travel documentation from trips to the US and examples from Sweden from the internet, literature, archives and interviews it aims to share reflections on the normalization and translatability to different cultural contexts of the use of ice cubes. I…
Market Detachment: Breaking Social Ties in Economic Settings
Elusive Consumption
The construction and navigation of riskscapes in public health advice and mothers’ accounts of weaning
This paper adds to critical studies of risk and mothering by illustrating and conceptualising how risk is constructed in public health advice and mothers’ accounts of weaning. Previous research points towards a gap between public health scientific definitions of risk and mothers’ contextual understandings and experience of handling complex and often conflicting risks linked to food and feeding. It has been suggested that public health discourse m…
Convenient Food for Baby: A Study of Weaning as a Social Practice
This article reports findings from a study of weaning from a perspective informed by practice theory. The overall aim is to examine how parents integrate convenience baby food into their everyday feeding practices. The focus is the embedding of convenience baby foods in the routines and rhythms of everyday life and the “do-ability” of different practices. The study is based on fieldwork with nineteen mothers in Falköping in western Sweden. Result…
Assembling nostalgia: Devices for Affective Captation on the Re:heritage Market
This article builds on the current rethinking of nostalgia in heritage studies and an increasing amount of research that explores the formatting of customer – producer relationships in terms of ’market attachments’ to analyse how nostalgia is performative on the market for retro, vintage and second hand, what we call the re:heritage market. Based on a multi-sited study including offline and online ethnographic observations, photography and qualit…
Best for baby? Framing weaning practice and motherhood in web-mediated marketing
The aim is to illustrate how web marketing frame commercial baby food as a value-adding part of weaning practice and discuss how various ways of framing relate to contemporary mothering ideals. Drawing on “practice” and “frame analysis,” we illustrate how four baby food producers’ web marketing frame commercial baby food and weaning as “medical,” “fun” or “convenient.” The analysis shows that the web material offers a range of images and ideals t…
Life Phases, Mobility and Consumption: An Ethnography of Shopping Routes
In today’s consumer society, shopping is the kind of mundane and routine kind of mobility that we all engage in. Yet having a first child or growing old radically changes people’s logistical habits as consumers, what the authors of this book call consumer logistics. Exploring consumer mobility through the lens of life phase and age will deepen the understanding of hitherto under-researched aspects of the ageing process and of mobility, knowledge …
Nostalgi som affektivt redskap på retro- och vintagemarknaden
This article discusses how nostalgia is used as an affective device on the expanding market for retro and vintage to increase the value of the objects for sale and attract customers. Theoretically it draws on theories of markets as performative and constructed by the help of practices, technologies and devices and from an understanding of affect as material and relational. The reader is guided to Magasinsgatan in central Gothenburg, a narrow stre…
Market Hydraulics and Subjectivities in the 'Wild: Circulations of the Flea Market
Since consumer researchers started paying attention to flea markets they represent common consumer and market research objects. Arguably, in the 'natural laboratory' of the flea market, researchers can observe and theorize market and consumer processes 'in the wild', as forms of direct marketing and consumption. We build on existing flea market research through adopting a circulatory approach, inspired by actor-network theory (ANT). Rather than p…
Moving consumption
International audience
Warning! Do not hang bags from the handlebar”: Barnvagnen som bärredskap
This essay argues that the stroller has many other carryology functions than simply carrying the baby and that these functions have multiplied both in number and multifunctionality during the past hundred years. The first technology was the hook in the forties that multiplied to two in the sixties. Later on came the shopping basket followed by the shopping bag, the diaper bag, the mug holder and a number of accessories to enhance mobile modern pa…
Bärologi – en introduktion
This issue is about carryology: the way we transport our stuff, and the techniques and tools we use. In seven articles the reader is presented with the history of carrying: from luxurious trunks for female travelers hundred years ago to the plastic bottles, bags, strollers, bikes and clothing we use as indispensable carriers of our stuff today
Exploring children's foodscapes
In this article, we discuss children's becoming as food consumers in the intersection of various foodscapes. We draw from a project, Children as co-researchers of foodscapes, where we have been working with children as co-researchers, using basically ethnographic methods, and as co-designers in a collaborative design effort. This article focuses on the findings from a theoretically inspired perspective, using the concept of foodscapes. These are …
Konsumtion i rörelse: Att följa socio-materiella assemblage
The article describes walk-alongs as part of the project Consumer Logistics. The project is a collaboration between Swedish, French and British researchers, united by an interest to study the performance of everyday logistics: people carrying their gadgets and purchases from shop to home
Preventing anxiety: A qualitative study of fish consumption and pregnancy
Starting from theories of anxiety as social practice, this article explores the contested landscape of health, risks associated with fish consumption and pregnancy in Sweden, and the way risk communicators and pregnant women navigate this landscape. This article argues that the risk analysis by the Swedish National Food Administration is a good example of the practices of definition and annihilation of subjects and objects of anxiety. It shows th…
Fraught cuisine: Food Scares and the Modulation of Anxieties
This paper explores the circulation of contemporary anxieties related to food through an engagement with sociological and geographical work on affect. The paper draws on four case studies of ‘food scares’ in the UK and Sweden to consider the emergence, circulation and expression of food anxieties. It suggests that existing analyses of food anxiety neglect its affective dimensions, and that the circulation of concerns about food is an affective an…
Foodscapes and Children's Bodies
This article addresses children, food and body, and introduces a Deleuzian and Childhood Studies-inspired use of the concept of foodscape. The data draws on a transdisciplinary project on children as co-researchers of foodscapes. In this article we do not discuss the method or the children's research results, which we have done elsewhere. Instead, our aim is to present a theoretically inspired analysis of our own fieldwork observations during thi…
Ritualer till salu: Introduktion
Barnkalas på McDonald's: Event marketing med förhinder
In this article birthday party rituals at McDonald's are studied as hybrids of orderings of different actors: the company eager to create loyal customers, or at least to offer an event worth paying for, the parents wanting some relief, the children wanting to play and have fun, the staff eager to perform their professionalism, and the marketing agency wanting to promote their event concept. What looks like a smoothly running event following a con…
Home to McDonald's: U pholding the F amily D inner with the H elp of M c D onald's
Fast food is regularly referred to as a symbol of the decline of cooking skills, families and the community at the dinner table. With inspiration from theories on domestication and Actor Networks, and using examples from studies from McDonald's in Sweden, this paper argues that a McDonald's restaurant can in fact be regarded as a home and the meals eaten there as “proper” family meals. A meal at the restaurant is for many parents the easiest way …
I varukorgen: En introduktion
Anmälningar och notiser
Recensioner av: Nick Lee: Childhood and Society: Growing Up in the Age of Uncertainty. Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2001 & Nick Lee & Rolland Munro (eds.): The Consumption of Mass. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001 Gottdiener, Mark (ed.): New Forms of Consumption; Consumers, Culture and Commodification. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher, 2000. Merryn Hutchings, Márta Fülöp och Anne-Marie Van den dries: Young People's Und…
"I skuggan av "M: Berättelser om McDonald's
Fears of McDonald's as a homogenizing force, which lies at the heart of the McDonaldization thesis, were followed by an interest in hybridity, creolization and glocalism. Recently researchers inspired by post-structuralism have criticized these concepts, advocating that culture should be understood as changing and in constant flux, that places occur where people's routes meet (Clifford 1997). Following British geographer Philip Crang (1996) a McD…
Anmälningar och notiser
Recension av: Leila Ahmed: A Border Passage. From Cairo to America — A Woman's Journey. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Ulla Carlsson (red.): Medierna i samhället. Kontinuitet och förändring. Stockholm: Nordicom, 1999. Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Etnicitet och nationalism. Nora: Nya Doxa, 1998. Scott Lash: Another Modernity: A Different Rationality. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. Robert Layton: Antropologisk teori. Nora: Nya Doxa, 1999. Shirley …
Exploring children's foodscapes
In this article, we discuss children's becoming as food consumers in the intersection of various foodscapes. We draw from a project, Children as co-researchers of foodscapes, where we have been working with children as co-researchers, using basically ethnographic methods, and as co-designers in a collaborative design effort. This article focuses on the findings from a theoretically inspired perspective, using the concept of foodscapes. These are …
Fraught cuisine: Food Scares and the Modulation of Anxieties
This paper explores the circulation of contemporary anxieties related to food through an engagement with sociological and geographical work on affect. The paper draws on four case studies of ‘food scares’ in the UK and Sweden to consider the emergence, circulation and expression of food anxieties. It suggests that existing analyses of food anxiety neglect its affective dimensions, and that the circulation of concerns about food is an affective an…
Home to McDonald's: U pholding the F amily D inner with the H elp of M c D onald's
Fast food is regularly referred to as a symbol of the decline of cooking skills, families and the community at the dinner table. With inspiration from theories on domestication and Actor Networks, and using examples from studies from McDonald's in Sweden, this paper argues that a McDonald's restaurant can in fact be regarded as a home and the meals eaten there as “proper” family meals. A meal at the restaurant is for many parents the easiest way …
Foodscapes and Children's Bodies
This article addresses children, food and body, and introduces a Deleuzian and Childhood Studies-inspired use of the concept of foodscape. The data draws on a transdisciplinary project on children as co-researchers of foodscapes. In this article we do not discuss the method or the children's research results, which we have done elsewhere. Instead, our aim is to present a theoretically inspired analysis of our own fieldwork observations during thi…
Assembling nostalgia: Devices for Affective Captation on the Re:heritage Market
This article builds on the current rethinking of nostalgia in heritage studies and an increasing amount of research that explores the formatting of customer – producer relationships in terms of ’market attachments’ to analyse how nostalgia is performative on the market for retro, vintage and second hand, what we call the re:heritage market. Based on a multi-sited study including offline and online ethnographic observations, photography and qualit…
Best for baby? Framing weaning practice and motherhood in web-mediated marketing
The aim is to illustrate how web marketing frame commercial baby food as a value-adding part of weaning practice and discuss how various ways of framing relate to contemporary mothering ideals. Drawing on “practice” and “frame analysis,” we illustrate how four baby food producers’ web marketing frame commercial baby food and weaning as “medical,” “fun” or “convenient.” The analysis shows that the web material offers a range of images and ideals t…
Moving consumption
International audience
Convenient Food for Baby: A Study of Weaning as a Social Practice
This article reports findings from a study of weaning from a perspective informed by practice theory. The overall aim is to examine how parents integrate convenience baby food into their everyday feeding practices. The focus is the embedding of convenience baby foods in the routines and rhythms of everyday life and the “do-ability” of different practices. The study is based on fieldwork with nineteen mothers in Falköping in western Sweden. Result…
"Fyrtiotalisterna" och deras döttrar: Två generationers modernitet
The present article treats the view of motherhood held by two generations of middle-class women: the so-called generation of 1968, and those born in the 1960s. As parents, the generation of 1968 had taken on an ambitious project — to "free" their children from authoritarian structures, teach them to penetrate and reveal the abuse of power, grow less egoistic and display a greater degree of solidarity. In contrast, the maternal role which these wo…
The Commercialization of Childhood
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Anmälningar och notiser
Recension av: Leila Ahmed: A Border Passage. From Cairo to America — A Woman's Journey. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Ulla Carlsson (red.): Medierna i samhället. Kontinuitet och förändring. Stockholm: Nordicom, 1999. Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Etnicitet och nationalism. Nora: Nya Doxa, 1998. Scott Lash: Another Modernity: A Different Rationality. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. Robert Layton: Antropologisk teori. Nora: Nya Doxa, 1999. Shirley …
I varukorgen: En introduktion
Anmälningar och notiser
Recensioner av: Nick Lee: Childhood and Society: Growing Up in the Age of Uncertainty. Buckingham, Philadelphia: Open University Press, 2001 & Nick Lee & Rolland Munro (eds.): The Consumption of Mass. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001 Gottdiener, Mark (ed.): New Forms of Consumption; Consumers, Culture and Commodification. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher, 2000. Merryn Hutchings, Márta Fülöp och Anne-Marie Van den dries: Young People's Und…
"I skuggan av "M: Berättelser om McDonald's
Fears of McDonald's as a homogenizing force, which lies at the heart of the McDonaldization thesis, were followed by an interest in hybridity, creolization and glocalism. Recently researchers inspired by post-structuralism have criticized these concepts, advocating that culture should be understood as changing and in constant flux, that places occur where people's routes meet (Clifford 1997). Following British geographer Philip Crang (1996) a McD…
Ritualer till salu: Introduktion
Barnkalas på McDonald's: Event marketing med förhinder
In this article birthday party rituals at McDonald's are studied as hybrids of orderings of different actors: the company eager to create loyal customers, or at least to offer an event worth paying for, the parents wanting some relief, the children wanting to play and have fun, the staff eager to perform their professionalism, and the marketing agency wanting to promote their event concept. What looks like a smoothly running event following a con…
Home to McDonald's: U pholding the F amily D inner with the H elp of M c D onald's
Fast food is regularly referred to as a symbol of the decline of cooking skills, families and the community at the dinner table. With inspiration from theories on domestication and Actor Networks, and using examples from studies from McDonald's in Sweden, this paper argues that a McDonald's restaurant can in fact be regarded as a home and the meals eaten there as “proper” family meals. A meal at the restaurant is for many parents the easiest way …
Foodscapes and Children's Bodies
This article addresses children, food and body, and introduces a Deleuzian and Childhood Studies-inspired use of the concept of foodscape. The data draws on a transdisciplinary project on children as co-researchers of foodscapes. In this article we do not discuss the method or the children's research results, which we have done elsewhere. Instead, our aim is to present a theoretically inspired analysis of our own fieldwork observations during thi…
Konsumtion i rörelse: Att följa socio-materiella assemblage
The article describes walk-alongs as part of the project Consumer Logistics. The project is a collaboration between Swedish, French and British researchers, united by an interest to study the performance of everyday logistics: people carrying their gadgets and purchases from shop to home
Preventing anxiety: A qualitative study of fish consumption and pregnancy
Starting from theories of anxiety as social practice, this article explores the contested landscape of health, risks associated with fish consumption and pregnancy in Sweden, and the way risk communicators and pregnant women navigate this landscape. This article argues that the risk analysis by the Swedish National Food Administration is a good example of the practices of definition and annihilation of subjects and objects of anxiety. It shows th…
Fraught cuisine: Food Scares and the Modulation of Anxieties
This paper explores the circulation of contemporary anxieties related to food through an engagement with sociological and geographical work on affect. The paper draws on four case studies of ‘food scares’ in the UK and Sweden to consider the emergence, circulation and expression of food anxieties. It suggests that existing analyses of food anxiety neglect its affective dimensions, and that the circulation of concerns about food is an affective an…
Warning! Do not hang bags from the handlebar”: Barnvagnen som bärredskap
This essay argues that the stroller has many other carryology functions than simply carrying the baby and that these functions have multiplied both in number and multifunctionality during the past hundred years. The first technology was the hook in the forties that multiplied to two in the sixties. Later on came the shopping basket followed by the shopping bag, the diaper bag, the mug holder and a number of accessories to enhance mobile modern pa…
Bärologi – en introduktion
This issue is about carryology: the way we transport our stuff, and the techniques and tools we use. In seven articles the reader is presented with the history of carrying: from luxurious trunks for female travelers hundred years ago to the plastic bottles, bags, strollers, bikes and clothing we use as indispensable carriers of our stuff today
Exploring children's foodscapes
In this article, we discuss children's becoming as food consumers in the intersection of various foodscapes. We draw from a project, Children as co-researchers of foodscapes, where we have been working with children as co-researchers, using basically ethnographic methods, and as co-designers in a collaborative design effort. This article focuses on the findings from a theoretically inspired perspective, using the concept of foodscapes. These are …
Nostalgi som affektivt redskap på retro- och vintagemarknaden
This article discusses how nostalgia is used as an affective device on the expanding market for retro and vintage to increase the value of the objects for sale and attract customers. Theoretically it draws on theories of markets as performative and constructed by the help of practices, technologies and devices and from an understanding of affect as material and relational. The reader is guided to Magasinsgatan in central Gothenburg, a narrow stre…
Market Hydraulics and Subjectivities in the 'Wild: Circulations of the Flea Market
Since consumer researchers started paying attention to flea markets they represent common consumer and market research objects. Arguably, in the 'natural laboratory' of the flea market, researchers can observe and theorize market and consumer processes 'in the wild', as forms of direct marketing and consumption. We build on existing flea market research through adopting a circulatory approach, inspired by actor-network theory (ANT). Rather than p…
Moving consumption
International audience
Life Phases, Mobility and Consumption: An Ethnography of Shopping Routes
In today’s consumer society, shopping is the kind of mundane and routine kind of mobility that we all engage in. Yet having a first child or growing old radically changes people’s logistical habits as consumers, what the authors of this book call consumer logistics. Exploring consumer mobility through the lens of life phase and age will deepen the understanding of hitherto under-researched aspects of the ageing process and of mobility, knowledge …
Convenient Food for Baby: A Study of Weaning as a Social Practice
This article reports findings from a study of weaning from a perspective informed by practice theory. The overall aim is to examine how parents integrate convenience baby food into their everyday feeding practices. The focus is the embedding of convenience baby foods in the routines and rhythms of everyday life and the “do-ability” of different practices. The study is based on fieldwork with nineteen mothers in Falköping in western Sweden. Result…
Assembling nostalgia: Devices for Affective Captation on the Re:heritage Market
This article builds on the current rethinking of nostalgia in heritage studies and an increasing amount of research that explores the formatting of customer – producer relationships in terms of ’market attachments’ to analyse how nostalgia is performative on the market for retro, vintage and second hand, what we call the re:heritage market. Based on a multi-sited study including offline and online ethnographic observations, photography and qualit…
Best for baby? Framing weaning practice and motherhood in web-mediated marketing
The aim is to illustrate how web marketing frame commercial baby food as a value-adding part of weaning practice and discuss how various ways of framing relate to contemporary mothering ideals. Drawing on “practice” and “frame analysis,” we illustrate how four baby food producers’ web marketing frame commercial baby food and weaning as “medical,” “fun” or “convenient.” The analysis shows that the web material offers a range of images and ideals t…
The construction and navigation of riskscapes in public health advice and mothers’ accounts of weaning
This paper adds to critical studies of risk and mothering by illustrating and conceptualising how risk is constructed in public health advice and mothers’ accounts of weaning. Previous research points towards a gap between public health scientific definitions of risk and mothers’ contextual understandings and experience of handling complex and often conflicting risks linked to food and feeding. It has been suggested that public health discourse m…
Elusive Consumption
Sociology (12 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social and Educational Sciences (5 works)