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Searching for the “politics of the possible” in flexitarianism.
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Food, Culture & Society . Feb2023, p1-21. 21p. 2 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The paper builds on recent flexitarianism scholarship by approaching this heterogeneous dietary category as a socio-cultural and political economic, rather than just a psychological phenomenon. It does this by drawing on Edmund Harris’s conceptualization of alternative food provisioning activities and subject-making as a “politics of the possible.” The paper addresses the following questions: does flexitarianism and the making of flexitarian subjectivities represent a “politics of the possible” and if so how; what are the limits of these politics and how might these limits be overcome? Empirically, the paper undertakes a qualitative analysis of UK national print news media coverage of flexitarianism and semi-structured interviews with self-identified flexitarians. Data from these two sources are interwoven in the discussion of themes that provide some evidence in support of flexitarianism as a politics of the possible, but which also draw attention to the limits of these politics. The paper concludes that only by addressing these limits can a full and critical assessment be made of flexitarianism’s contribution to a food system less dependent on animal-based foods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15528014
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Food, Culture & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 162030321
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2023.2175993