Linking socioeconomic disadvantage to healthiness of food practices: Can a practice‐theoretical perspective sharpen everyday life analysis?

Halkier, Bente; Holm, Lotte

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“…Furthermore, eating patterns are interconnected with social meanings and norms, food values, identity markers and perceptions of health and well-being [ 10 , 11 , 12 ]. Hence, the literature shows that interventions that target behavioural changes in relation to diet may well benefit from including social aspects that could facilitate or impede such changes [ 13 , 14 ].…”

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A Qualitative Evaluation of Social Aspects of Sugar-Rich Food and Drink Intake and Parental Strategies for Reductions

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Danish children have a much larger intake of sugar-rich foods and drinks than recommended. This study aimed to (1) explore social aspects and practices of pre-school children’s intake of sugar-rich foods and drinks and (2) evaluate barriers and parental strategies to reduce their children’s intake of sugar-rich foods and drinks employed in connection with the 3.5-month family-centred intervention trial ‘Are you too sweet?’. Intervention components included communication of the recommended maximum intake and reduction strategies, supported by resources encouraging and facilitating behavioural changes. A random sample of families (n = 24) from intervention schools participated in post-intervention semi-structured interviews. A thematic content analysis was conducted, revealing three main domains of social practices: (1) ‘family treats’, including the weekly Danish concept ‘Friday sweets’, (2) ‘everyday treats’, such as sweet snacks in lunch packs, between-meals snacks and soft drink habits and (3) ‘socialized treats’, including treats at special occasions. Parents employed several strategies, most often substitution and portion-size reduction, but also limiting home availability. Families most frequently made changes that were easily adoptable and close to existing routines at home. In conclusion, the intervention components provided families with knowledge and strategies that facilitated behavioural changes towards reducing the intake of sugar-rich foods and drinks.

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A Qualitative Evaluation of Social Aspects of Sugar-Rich Food and Drink Intake and Parental Strategies for Reductions

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“…Most such studies use an explicit starting point in practice theories (Reckwitz, 2002;Schatzki, 2002). The empirical studies tend to investigate the organisation and performance of consumption as part of practices in different areas of everyday life, including normative processes (Sahakian, 2022;Plessz and Wahlen, 2022;Welch, 2020;Castelo et al, 2021;Fuentes et al, 2021;Gram-Hanssen, 2021;Halkier and Holm, 2021). This body of research is key to providing knowledge about the mundane dynamics of consumption.…”

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“…This article is inspired by Warde's understanding of conventions. However, it uses the term mundane normativity instead of conventions, to signal a focus on processes in the study of the normative in social action (Halkier and Holm, 2021). Normativity describes the processes of handling appropriateness in practising something rather than merely describing the content of the conventions in themselves.…”

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Mundane normativity and the everyday handling of contested food consumption

Halkier

2022

Consumption and Society

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Much contemporary public debate focuses on food consumption. Societal and individual health, risk, climate change, sustainability, animal welfare and food quality are all issues which influence the culturally established or traditional food routines practised in every day life. This cultural contestation and debate suggests that consumption in everyday life is already a site of normative action. Yet existing research has focused largely either on political and ethical consumption, or on tacitly reproduced routines in consumption. The mundane processes in which explicit and implicit ways of handling normative issues are entangled have received little attention, either empirically or theoretically. This article seeks to consider these issues in detail, suggesting a new framework for empirical investigations of processes of reproduction and change in consumption patterns. It introduces two new terms in mundane normativity – expectable and acceptable consumption – and uses examples to show how these terms can help better understand mundane normativity from a practice theoretical perspective. Material from four different Danish research studies on contested food consumption exemplifies these new terms. The article suggests that the terms expectable and acceptable consumption can enable consumption researchers to examine more variety in relation to the normative in consumption and investigate the intertwined processes of reproduction and change in consumption better. Furthermore, the article argues that analysing mundane normativity points towards an issue in consumption that practice theoretical research has not yet addressed sufficiently – social hierarchies.

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“…Such normative judgement plays an important role in social inequality, as also highlighted by Sayer (2005). Social hierarchy, according to Halkier and Holm (2021) is thus related to normative inequality. Applied to food governance practices, this means that some forms of doing sustainable food are considered better than others in particular spaces of intelligibility, as illustrated above.…”

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“…They also suggest a return to Bourdieu, through the notion of 'social hierarchy', which although not explicitly mentioned, can be directly linked to the concepts of (mis)recognition, doxa and symbolic power. Social hierarchy, Halkier and Holm (2021) state, is at play when normative judgement is applied "when differences in the ways in which something is practiced [...] are understood on a scale of being more or less appropriate" (p.758). Such normative judgement plays an important role in social inequality, as also highlighted by Sayer (2005).…”

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The elusiveness of inclusiveness : A practice-based perspective on health and sustainability in urban food practices

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Effective urban food governance requires multiple pathways of transition to a healthy and sustainable food system. (this thesis) 2.Promoting sustainable food consumption practices requires a theory of power. (this thesis) 3.A theoretical lens follows from a hypothesis. 4.The practical experience gained during a PhD conducted at a University of Applied Sciences adds significant value to the PhD trajectory. 5.Working from home fulltime hampers successful PhD writing.'I made it through another day' (Sia, 2021). This has been the soundtrack of the second half of my PhD, written during years with extensive periods of lockdown that were not easy. It has been quite the ride, and I have a lot of people to thank for making it to the finish line. Thanks to my dear promotors, Peter and Sigrid. I could not have dreamed of a better supervisory team! When I started my PhD, I was quite insecure about my capacities. I really appreciated your encouragements to express my voice more clearly and trust myself and my ideas. Peter, you've been in it with me since my MSc thesis back in 2015. You were always a rock, grounding me along the way. Sigrid, it's been such a pleasure working with you! Your endless energy is very inspiring and I very much appreciate the mentor role you have taken up in coaching me, introducing me to many new people and projects, and now also to a great postdoc position where I'm very happy to continue our collaboration.My lovely, lovely Almere people! I could absolutely not have done this without you. Claudia, Koen, Jan-Eelco, thank you for all the fun we had when we still had an office! Such good times in Lancaster, Torino, and at our very own Almere conference. Koen, thanks for the many chats in particular through Teams over the past two years -it's really helped me cope with everything. Jan-Eelco, special thanks for getting me outside of my house during lockdown for our walks -I hope we will continue this in the future! Claudia, the choice for you as my paranymph was very easy to make: such an honour to watch you develop from my intern to the social practice theorist you know are! Thanks for being my paranymph and friend  My other Almere colleagues from team TPO -Dinand, Harrison, Nicolette, Brigitta, Henk, Pat, thank you for sharing the office with me and bringing joy (and plants, Brigitta!) to my office life. And of course a big thank you to all of you at Aeres University of Applied Sciences Almere for allowing me to do my PhD among you. Thanks also to Flevo Campus and Gemeente Almere for supporting the PhD project. Thanks to all my wonderful ENP colleagues -too many to name here. Since I started as a junior researcher in 2016, I have always felt very much at home and accepted in the group. Although the last two years of lockdown after lockdown have meant limited encounters, I have very fond memories of our bustling hallway where the doors were always open. Your collegiality is much appreciated! Alita, Frank, Jillian, Moises, Nila, Pamela, Robin and Sayel , thanks for our amazing China trip! I particularl...

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Linking socioeconomic disadvantage to healthiness of food practices: Can a practice‐theoretical perspective sharpen everyday life analysis?

Cited by 14 publications

References 78 publications

A Qualitative Evaluation of Social Aspects of Sugar-Rich Food and Drink Intake and Parental Strategies for Reductions

A Qualitative Evaluation of Social Aspects of Sugar-Rich Food and Drink Intake and Parental Strategies for Reductions

Mundane normativity and the everyday handling of contested food consumption

The elusiveness of inclusiveness : A practice-based perspective on health and sustainability in urban food practices

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