Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life

by James, Allison; Kjorholt, Anne-Trine; Tingstad, Vebjorg

• ISBN13: 9780230575998
• ISBN10: 0230575994
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In exploring childrens own everyday food encounters, alongside the ways in which childhood identities are constructed and mediated through food, this book enables a measured and insightful understanding of the various and subtle dimensions of the relationship between children, food and identity.

Author Biography

ALLISON JAMES is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is also Professor at Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Trondheim, Norway. Her most recent work explores chidlrens experiences of hospital space and children as family participants. She is author of numerous books, including Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood (with A.Prout); Theorising Childhood (with C.Jenks and A.Prout); Research with Children (edited with Pia Christensen); Constructing Childhood: Theory, Policy and Social Practice (with A.L.James); European Childhoods (edited with A.L.James) and Key Concepts in Childhood Studies (with A.L. James).
 
ANNE TRINE KJRHOLT is Associate Professor and Director of Norwegian Centre for Child Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Her research interests include discourses on childhood, childrens rights and citizenship, early childhood education and care. Among Kjrholts publications are: Beyond Listening; Childrens Perspectives in Early Childhood Services (co-edited); Childrens Welfare (co-edited); Global Childhoods: Globalization, Development and Young People (co-edited).

VEBJRG TINGSTAD is Associate Professor and Deputy Director at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. 
 
 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Children, Food and Identity in Everyday life	p. 1
'It Depends What You Mean by Feeding "on Demand"': Mothers' Accounts of Babies' Agency in Infant-Feeding Relationships	p. 13
Negotiating Family, Negotiating Food: Children as Family Participants?	p. 35
Consuming Fast Food: The Perceptions and Practices of Middle-Class Young Teenagers	p. 52
Picturing the Lunchbox: Children Drawing and Talking about 'Dream' and 'Nightmare' Lunchboxes in the Primary School Setting	p. 69
Fathering through Food: Children's Perceptions of Fathers' Contributions to Family Food Practices	p. 94
Children's Subjectivities and Commercial Meaning: The Delicate Battle Mothers Wage When Feeding Their Children	p. 112
Children's 'Becoming' in Frontiering Foodscapes	p. 130
Food and Relationships: Children's Experiences in Residential Care	p. 149
Discourses on Child Obesity and TV Advertising in the Context of the Norwegian Welfare State	p. 172
'I don't care if it does me good, I like it': Childhood, Health and Enjoyment in British Women's Magazine Food Advertising	p. 192
Index	p. 213
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