Sally Brooks
Chewing on choice
Brooks, Sally; Burges Watson, Duika L.; Draper, Alizon; Goodman, Michael; Kvalvaag, Heidi; Wills, Wendy
Authors
Duika L. Burges Watson
Alizon Draper
Michael Goodman
Heidi Kvalvaag
Wendy Wills
Contributors
Emma-Jayne Abbots
Editor
Anna Lavis
Editor
Abstract
The concept of ‘individual choice’ has become central to contemporary understandings of the relationship between food, health and well-being. Drawing on four research projects in which the authors have recently been engaged (Brooks 2010, Burges Watson et al. forthcoming, Goodman et al, 2012, Kvalvaag forthcoming), this chapter traces how and why this is so; exploring the multitudinous ways and means that discourses of ‘food choice’ have been deployed and gained political and material ‘real world’ salience in a number of different contexts. It locates ‘choice’ theoretically, as a concept borrowed from neoclassical economics to complement biomedical theories with a thinking subject; and politically, as an indeterminate and ‘slippery’ concept adaptable to shifting policy platforms. The multiple manifestations and consequences of this slipperiness are explored through the cases of: food and nutrition policymaking in the UK over the last 25 years; an international nutrition system generating policies and programmes for ‘beneficiaries’ in the developing world; and the strategies of an increasingly high-profile alternative food movement.
Citation
Brooks, S., Burges Watson, D. L., Draper, A., Goodman, M., Kvalvaag, H., & Wills, W. (2013). Chewing on choice. In E. Abbots, & A. Lavis (Eds.), Why we eat, how we eat : contemporary encounters between foods and bodies (149-168). Ashgate Publishing
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2013 |
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Deposit Date | Jul 15, 2013 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 17, 2013 |
Pages | 149-168 |
Series Title | Critical food studies |
Book Title | Why we eat, how we eat : contemporary encounters between foods and bodies. |
Chapter Number | 7 |
Publisher URL | http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409447252 |
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Used by permission of the Publishers from ‘Chewing on choice’, in Why we eat, how we eat: contemporary encounters between foods and bodies. eds. E.-J. Abbots and A. Lavis (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 149–168. Copyright © 2013
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