À partir des années 1920, un nouveau type d’alimentation florit dans les villes des États-Unis, avant de gagner le bord des grandes routes et les banlieues, puis de s’instaurer comme un symbole de la culture et du soft-power américain : le fast-food. Ces chaînes, avec McDonald’s en chef de file, séduisirent rapidement le pays. Si beaucoup d’études ...
British people traveling to the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century encountered its truly multiethnic composition. In the South Caucasus they were introduced, for instance, to Georgian viticulture, often served in Armenian inns, suggesting a culinary contact zone. Cultural contacts were equally seen in the Crimean Peninsula: the Greeks were wi...
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La nourriture n’est pas uniquement un dérivé de production et de consommation, elle est aussi un fait social et un vecteur important dans l’interrogation sur des enjeux sociopolitiques, des matrices de pouvoir genrées, et des intersectionnalités identitaires. Se situant à la croisée de la pensée féministe postcoloniale et des études alimentaires cr...
The overall aim of this thesis is to cultivate understandings of how meanings regarding food and health are made within the school subject home and consumer studies (HCS). The thesis builds on empirical data generated through a comprehensive case study, where 12 students from one school class and their two teachers were followed in HCS over the cou...
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This article examines the place of food and cooking in Caribbean women’s postcolonial writings, and concentrates on the works of two women authors of Caribbean origins: Jean Rhys and Olive Senior. It explores how the representations of cooking and culinary traditions help us to rethink the process of creolization from a feminine perspective. Creoli...
Recent scholarship in media studies has explored the physical experiences of popular culture such as theme parks and fan food. Although these studies emphasize the materiality of media, they have not adequately addressed the environmental implications. Analyzing Galaxy's Edge food in conjunction with food scenes from the Skywalker Saga films makes ...
What part do food practices have in gender identification processes? How do they reveal wider reconfigurations of masculinity models? This article is based on findings from a sociological qualitative research on men (40–63 years old) living in France and Italy. This paper examines how men regard their food practices as a core activity to prevent or...
