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Reconfiguring food materialities: plant-based food consumption practices in antagonistic landscapes
Department of Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden.
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6687-274x
2021 (English)In: Food, Culture, and Society: an international journal of multidisciplinary research, ISSN 1552-8014, E-ISSN 1751-7443, p. 1-20Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The aim of this paper is to conceptualize and discuss how plant-based food consumption is accomplished in an environment pre-configured by meat-based food practices. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with thirteen consumers, and using a socio-material practice approach, the paper demonstrates how plant-based shopping, cooking and eating practices are enabled and shaped by material reconfigurations. The paper shows how developments such as an expanding range of plant-based food products, the increased use of social media, and the re-appropriation of shops and kitchens all entail the continuous reconfiguration of the materials involved in shopping, cooking and eating practices. Together, these material reconfigurations form a socio-material landscape that is mutable and changing, thus enabling plant-based food consumption. In addition, the paper also suggests that these material reconfigurations are not something that can be managed due to having evolved as a collective process in which multiple actors take part, all guided by their own interests. In doing so, the paper illustrates that, in order to understand plant-based consumption, as well as its emergence, performance, and complexities, we must take into account the practical and material aspects involved, not just the cultural or cognitive mechanisms.

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Routledge, 2021. p. 1-20
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Consumption, vegetarian, plant-based, practice theory, materiality
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Business Administration
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Business and IT
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-25421DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2021.1903716ISI: 000641356000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85104753OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-25421DiVA, id: diva2:1554291
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Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, 2017-01604Available from: 2021-05-12 Created: 2021-05-12 Last updated: 2021-10-21Bibliographically approved

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