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The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociologies of Food and Drink

Anne Murcott, Mari Niva (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
322 Seiten
2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-72517-8 (ISBN)
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This handbook presents a novel approach to updated, authoritative accounts of research on the sociologies of food and drink. Providing an essential overview of established theoretical approaches and recent conceptual developments, it will appeal to sociologists interested in culture, consumption, and social theory, as well as food and drink.
This handbook presents a novel approach to updated, authoritative accounts of research on the sociologies of food and drink.

Foregrounding the discipline of sociology in its various forms, it presents a range of theoretical approaches – including theories of practice, figurational sociology, symbolic interactionism, Conversation Analysis as well as inspiration derived from Science and Technology Studies. It emphasises the improved analyses that properly theorised and identifiably sociological perspectives can contribute to our understanding of activities associated with food and drink and their socio-cultural contexts. The book opens with a chapter which both introduces newcomers to the scope of the field and establishes the rationale for the book’s focus. The subsequent chapters provide comprehensive expositions of major contributions, intellectual turning points, and ruptures or disciplinary breakthroughs as well as emerging directions for future study.

Thus The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociologies of Food and Drink provides an essential overview of a variety of established theoretical approaches as well as more recent conceptual developments. It will appeal to scholars, researchers, and students of sociology with interests in culture, consumption, and social theory, as well as food and drink.

Anne Murcott is Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at SOAS University of London, Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham, in addition to Professor Emerita of Sociology at London South Bank University. Her most recent book is The (not so) Secret Life of Food Packaging (2024). Mari Niva is Professor of Consumer Studies in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Helsinki and leader of the Consumer Studies Research Group therein. Her field of expertise is the study of social practices and cultural aspects of consumption, particularly food and eating.

1. Introduction Part One: Established theoretical and conceptual approaches in the sociologies of food 2. The sociology of food communities 3. A sociology of tasting 4. Nationalism in gastronomy and cuisine 5. Food as a normative issue in everyday life: the contribution of symbolic SI interactionism 6. Established foundations and new directions for an Eliasian sociology of food 7. The uneasy companionships of kitchen life: kitchen hygiene practices 8. Sustainable eating and power: the regulation of meat eating 9. Food governmentality: considering power in food systems 10. Dining out: practices, processes and theories Part Two: Novel theoretical and conceptual developments in the sociologies of food and drink 11. Farming, food and critical family history: a method for revealing invisible histories in the global food system 12. The mediation of packaging and the 4 Ts of product (e)valuation: tasting, testing, teasing, teaching 13. Turning wine into sociology: outlines of the field of oeno-sociology 14. Feminist STS and MTH thinking as theoretical resource for understanding chicken and care in the food system 15. The contribution of the French “sociology of eaters” 16. ‘Where the magic happens’: the immense sociological significance of a shared lunchtime meal, as a tool for developing sociability amongst criminal justice affected people 17. Raising a glass to the sociology of drinking: alcohol, embodiment and the everyday 18. The promissory narratives of alternative proteins

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.5.2026
Reihe/Serie Routledge International Handbooks
Zusatzinfo 10 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-032-72517-6 / 1032725176
ISBN-13 978-1-032-72517-8 / 9781032725178
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