Recreating culture: Slow Food as a leisure education movement

Beyond agriculture: the counter-hegemony of community farming

“…We take as our starting point the increasing global recognition of the deeply political nature of food production and consumption (see, for example, Madden and Finch 2006;Desmarais 2008;Mair et al 2008;Yan et al 2011) and the ways in which many individuals and communities seek to challenge the dominant ideology of "global food" (Carolan 2011). We know that, for many people, counter-hegemony is expressed primarily through conscious purchase and consumption decisions (Mair et al 2008;Sassatelli and Davolio 2010;Dunlap 2012). Yet we recognize that, for others, counter-hegemony involves a commitment to production as well as consumption activities, often through membership of intentional food communities such as community supported agriculture (CSA) projects (Cone and Kakaliouras 1995;Brown 2002;DeLind 2002;Cox et al 2008;Dunlap 2009Dunlap , 2011.…”

Critical encounters: introduction to special issue on leisure and food

“…Indeed, their concern with fostering food citizenship leads them to suggest key characteristics of educational efforts that can help foster food citizenship and they develop a model of factors influencing behavioural change. These ideas can be added to recent work by Dunlap (2012), who has foregrounded the reflexive, educative potential of leisure and food practices, and offers a view of the dinner table and the community food event as potential "scenes of action. "…”

Exploring Foodie Segmentation

“…Furthermore, the foodie market has been conceptualized as part of a larger Slow Food movement (Dunlap, 2012) that sits at the intersection of social change, agriculture, and recreation and leisure -what Amsden and McEntee (2011) termed agrileisure. Boniface (2009) attributes the rise in culinary tourism to an interest in counter-acting food industrialization.…”

“…Johnston and Baumann (2009) also conjecture that foodies value ecological sustainability and authenticity in their food experiences and that many of their choices are based on a desire to curb the industrialization of the food production system. Dunlap (2012) surmises that these members of the Slow Food movement are actually engaging in a form of reflective practice, and are therefore organized by their interest in furthering their knowledge about food. Despite the growth in culinary tourism and culinary tourist research, most knowledge surrounding the behaviors and characteristics of foodies still exists in the realm of speculation (Dunlap, 2012).…”

“…Dunlap (2012) surmises that these members of the Slow Food movement are actually engaging in a form of reflective practice, and are therefore organized by their interest in furthering their knowledge about food. Despite the growth in culinary tourism and culinary tourist research, most knowledge surrounding the behaviors and characteristics of foodies still exists in the realm of speculation (Dunlap, 2012). The purpose of this study is to test a scale that distinguishes between different types of foodies, so that future research can take steps toward understanding more about their travel behavior.…”