Consumption Challenged: Food in Medialised Everyday Lives [Hardcover]

In public debates, communication campaigns and public policies, it is increasingly common to attribute to consumers and their agency an ability to help solve a broad array of societal problems. This tendency is particularly clear in the field of food consumption, owing to the fact that food is both materially and symbolically central for consumers in everyday life as well as for large scale institutionalized dynamics. In order to shed light on the challenges facing food consumption, this volume takes an innovative theoretical approach, presenting four empirical Danish case studies which are compared with other analyses drawn from the wider international context. Consumption Challenged will appeal not only to sociologists of consumption, risk and the environment, but also to policy makers and researchers in the fields of geography, communication, media, governance and social psychology.Contents: Preface; A field of challenged consumption; Analysing challenged consumption from a practice theoretical perspective; Dealing with environmental challenges; Dealing with food risk challenges; Dealing with challenges of cooking from scratch; Dealing with nutritional challenges; Concluding consumption challenged; References; Index.With its innovative theoretical approach and rich empirical data relating particularly to the field of food consumption, Consumption Challenged will appeal not only to sociologists of consumption, risk and the environment, but also to policy makers and researchers in the fields of geography, communication, media, governance and social psychology.Bente Halkier is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, DenmarkThis is a pioneering contribution to an important, largely neglected topic in consumption studies: media campaigns and debates which increasingly rely on the agency of ordinary consumers to solve serious social problems. Halkiers empirical cases of food conl3¨