Gender, Consumption and the Relocalisation of Food
A Research Agenda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4446503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo Little (University of Exeter), Brian Ilbery (University of Gloucestershire), David Watts (0000-0002-9255-4515, University of Aberdeen) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 201-217 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2009.00492.x |
| OpenAlex | W2123329328 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article adopts a gendered approach to the study of alternative/local food consumption. Drawing on Allen and Sachs' three analytical domains, the article explores material, sociocultural and embodied conceptualisations of the relationship of women with alternative food consumption. Using original data collected from a study of food relocalisation in the UK, it argues that a gendered perspective that examines responsibilities for food preparation and for provisioning the household is important in understanding the motivation for and implications of decisions to consume local food. Local food consumption often involves consumers in choices over not only what they eat but how they cook, encouraging a move away from processed food and a greater emphasis on raw food and cooking from scratch. Such shifts have a disproportionate effect on women as they are still largely responsible for feeding the household. The article also explores ways in which social pressures around healthy eating and bodily fitness, particularly in relation to children's eating patterns, are increasingly relevant to local food consumption arguing. Again, such pressures fall unequally on different members of the household and are central to a gendered analysis of food consumption
Agricultural economics · Business · Consumption (sociology) · Economic geography · Economics · Food consumption · Social science · Sociology · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Organic Food and Agriculture
The contradictions of a superfood consumerism in a postfeminist, neoliberal world
Relational Activism
Les systèmes agroalimentaires alternatifs. Une revue de travaux anglophones en sciences sociales
The region in food--important or irrelevant
Related Factors for Impaired Fasting Glucose in Korean Adults
Local food consumption during travel
The impact of ingredient disclosure on the sensory perception and purchase intent of cricket-flour-enriched bread among young women
Feeding the ‘organic child’
Alternative food networks and food provisioning as a gendered act
Food education as food literacy
Growing local food
Completing the Circuit
The Rural Geography Research Group at 50
Food safety in everyday life
Rural revitalization through territorial distinctiveness
Progressing knowledge in alternative and local food networks
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains
Pursuing Right Livelihood through Alternative Food Practices
I am pleased to shop somewhere that is fighting the supermarkets a little bit’. A cultural political economy of alternative food networks
An unsustainable state
Mainstreaming a gender perspective into food system policies for healthy diets in low- and middle-income countries
Individual consumer food localism
Meat reduction meets family reality
Food ideals, food rules and the subjective construction of a healthy diet
The Gendered Production-Consumption Relation
Alternative Food Networks and the Labor of Food Provisioning
Food Preparation by Young Adults Is Associated with Better Diet Quality
The Changing Chicken
Consuming Risk, Consuming Science
Product, Process and Place
Outsize/Outside
Because they can do the work’
Not in my body
The spaces and ethics of organic food
In search of the concerned consumer
Cultures of GM’
Embeddedness and local food systems
Embeddedness, the new food economy and defensive localism
Mapping Men Onto the Menu
Knowing food and growing food
The Invisible Mouth
Embodying Neoliberalism
Ontology Matters
Beyond the Farm Gate
Understanding Alternative Food Networks
Metabolising Risk
Fast food/organic food
Eating 'Green
On Farm and Packhouse
Reproducing Labor Inequalities
Coming Back Across the Fence
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,63 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |