Negotiating Family, Negotiating Food: Children as Family Participants?

James, Allison; Curtis, Penny; Ellis, Katie

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“…Curtis et al (2011a) highlight that parental behaviour has consistently been identified as having the greatest influence on children's eating practices. However, Curtis et al (2011a) also emphasise that since it is women who generally take on primary responsibility for family food provision (James et al, 2009), it is women who are viewed as having the most significant influence on the development of children's eating habits and the creation of family food environments (Hood et al, 2000).…”

Section: Family Food In the Spotlightmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the argument is circular since family members will be defined as such because practices are directed towards them. James et al (2009) …”

Section: Doing Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In relation to roles and subject positions, in their recent study with 11 and 12 year old children from socio-economically and ethnically diverse schools, James et al (2009) found that mothers still do much of the family feeding. Despite claims that families are becoming more equal, mothers did the majority of the food shopping, preparation, and accommodating for differences in preferences.…”

Section: Food Eating and Everyday Family Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…James et al (2009), also working with children from socioeconomically contrasting backgrounds, argue that different kinds of participation by children as in families, regardless of their socioeconomic background. They describe three families: those of Maisie, Roy and Gemma.…”

Section: Food Eating and Everyday Family Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

“…And the next thing she Research by James et al, (2009) andFairbrother (2012) also found that food was a cause of tension within family relationships too, especially between parents and grandparents with regards to Curtis et al, 2009 andKnight et al, 2015 draw attention to parental concern that grandparents offered like (Curtis et al, 2009;Knight et al, 2015). Knight et al (2015), for example, depict the tensions between mother and mother-in-law: However, research has also shown that value judgements about food are not just limited to parents.…”

Section: Nourishing Bodies and Nourishing Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Everyday Family Food Practices

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Ellis²

2018

Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations

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This chapter considers the debates around childhood obesity and focuses on UK public health campaigns, such as Change4Life, aimed at children and their parents. It aims to broaden the childhood obesity debate commonly discussed in the UK public health literature by using Childhood Studies to critique everyday assumptions that seem to be made about children in public health policy. The chapter consider views and perspectives of children, thereby challenging assumptions suggesting instead that children play an active part in everyday family feeding practices. The family as a context for the negotiation of everyday food practices is explored and the dichotomous relationship of parent and child considered. Reflections are also offered on the fluidity and complexity of family structures and the importance that food plays within the context of everyday family life and how food provisioning impacts on intergenerational relationships within the family. The chapter finishes by exploring perceptions of While the health literature assumes that children are simply recipients of parental feeding, this chapter highlights research that shows that children also construct their own understandings about the healthiness of food and that they are active participants in negotiating family food practices. Through exploring studies situated within contemporary childhood and families research, the chapter affords a much more nuanced picture of childhood obesity discourses.

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Section: Family Food In the Spotlightmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the argument is circular since family members will be defined as such because practices are directed towards them. James et al (2009) …”

Section: Doing Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Food Eating and Everyday Family Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Food Eating and Everyday Family Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Nourishing Bodies and Nourishing Relationshipsmentioning

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Ellis²

2018

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Identities and Subjectivities

Worth¹,

Dwyer²,

Skelton³

2016

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Geographies of Children and Young People is a Major Reference Work comprising 12 volumes that pulls together the best international reflective and innovative scholarship focusing on younger people. Volumes 1 and 2 establish and critically engage with the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological groundings of this geographical sub-discipline. Volumes 3-11 provide in depth thematic analysis of key topical areas pertinent to children's and young people's lives: space, place and environment; identities and subjectivities; families and peer groups; movement and mobilities; politics and citizenship; global issues and change; play and well-being; learning and labouring; conflict and peace. Volume 12 connects both academic, policy, and practitioner based work around protection and provision.

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Morality and Relationality in Children’s Foodscapes

Cairns

2016

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Negotiating Family, Negotiating Food: Children as Family Participants?

Cited by 34 publications

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Everyday Family Food Practices

Everyday Family Food Practices

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