Bringing identities to the table
Exploring conversational practices of vegetarians and vegans at flashpoints in interaction with meat-eaters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12733619 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marike Fordonnell (University of Bath), Annayah M B Prosser (0000-0003-2381-9556, University of Bath), Tim Kurz (0000-0002-2037-0995, The University of Western Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 262-285 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Research in Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-0887 • E-ISSN: 1478-0895 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14780887.2024.2359423 |
| OpenAlex | W4399941060 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
Although vegetarian and vegan (veg*an) diets can produce various health, environmental and animal welfare benefits, they remain socially contentious. Despite the fundamentally social nature of eating, in-situ investigations of the social-interactional elements of dietary identities have so far been lacking. Using a recently developed remotely-moderated focus group design, we explore (across 25 discussions involving 122 participants) the discursive management of veg*an ‘identity flashpoints’ during discussion with meat-eaters. Our discursive analysis explores how these moments in conversation arise and are handled in real-time within the unfolding interaction. We demonstrate how two particularly interactionally consequential features of veg*an accounts of their practice become constructed within these encounters. Firstly, personal accounts of veg*anism are interactionally preferred to moral accounts. Secondly, demonstrating continued liking of meat was necessary in order to be met with group acceptance among majority meat-eating groups. These features shed light on the social interactional perils of veg*an attempts to engage in persuasion with meat-eaters, particularly those based on moral grounds. Our novel methodology affords detailed analyses of how veg*ans navigate the performance of their identities in their daily interactions with dietary outgroups, providing insight into micro-level processes that might underpin, or hamper, processes of societal change in the dietary domain
Conversation · Conversation analysis · Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Linguistics · Sociology · Communication · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |