Simbolismo sobre "natural" na alimentação

Abstract

The incorporated senses represent a set of possibilities for future life able to build individual and collective identities. This work deepens the habitus, in Bourdieu's terms, associated with "natural" and fast-food styles, making an interpretative analysis of symbolic exchanges of elements reproduced in feeding practices. We believe that this bricolage arrangement of elements enables bartering and hybridism, marked by a tension that reflects the insecurity of technological innovations. The "natural" style represents an ideal of self-sustainability, non-polluting production, which faces the sanitary and ecologic crisis of the planet, against the large-scale industrialization and fast urbanization, defined as depredation factors of basic living conditions. The exchanges happen in a symbolic game connected with the global economic game, in which social actors make bets, illusio, according to particular intentions in concrete action. There is a chance to reformulate the rules of the game in the "game", although with a precarious balance of forces, in which the weaker side loses, an agent may have the possibility of not reproducing the pressures of globalized feeding, which is far from what might seem supernatural.

The use of Pierre Bourdieu's distinction concepts in scientific articles studying food and eating: A narrative review

“…While theorists such as Mennell (1985) and Lash and Urry (1994) helped to describe contemporary food culture by considering a decline in classassociated tastes (Gronow, 1993;Hollows & Jones, 2010;Tomlinson, 2003), Moscovici's concept of social representation guided reflection on the way social structures are produced and reproduced through the habitus (Bezerra, 2009;Garcia, 1997). Others theorists featured in qualitative studies were: Scott Lash, with his notion of "reflexivity winners and losers" (Wills et al, 2011); Claude L evi-Strauss, with his concept of bricolage (Carvalho & Luz, 2011); and Maurice Halbwachs, with his studies on social class and consumption (R egnier, 2009). …”

“…The qualitative works of Garcia (1997) and Carvalho and Luz (2011) investigated eating practices and behaviors within an urban environment. They used Bourdieu's concept of habitus to define the object "eating" and their approach towards it.…”

“…Her results present two models of eating: one driven by pleasure and the other by "nutritional rules." Carvalho and Luz (2011) observed the interaction between factors influencing the permanent creation of new meanings for food and explored the habitus associated with two styles of eating: "natural" and "fast-food." The authors described mixtures of the two categories, such as fast food restaurants offering "natural" food preparations and argued a symbolic game created a "new alimentary order" more open to mixtures of food styles and "natural" foods.…”

An integrated approach to current trends in food consumption: Moving toward functional and organic products?

“…Indeed, consumers perceive foods labeled as organic to be healthier (Sheng et al, 2009). However, in recent times the profit interests have undermined the use of the adjective natural, as well as the term organic, leading consumers to a generalized mistrust understanding that it does not necessarily mean safe (Carvalho & Luz, 2011).…”

Hábitos alimentares regionais no Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar: um estudo qualitativo em um município do sertão da Bahia, Brasil

“…Ainda nessa esteira de interpretação do "alimento natural", as pesquisadoras Carvalho & Luz 16 , em estudo que objetivou aprofundar os significados construídos nas práticas alimentares reprodutoras do estilo "natural" e do estilo fast--food, sinalizam a concepção do "natural" como um construto simbólico inerente à pós-modernidade, a qual emerge no contexto dos pós-guerras mundiais. Em tal concepção, está implicada a rejeição de um ideal de modernidade, a qual se contrapõe à disposição para uma agricultura menos intensiva e promotora do desenvolvimento social.…”