STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA - 2024 - 4. Food consumption and sustainability. Social representations, public discourses and individual narratives

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STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA - 2024 - 4. Food consumption and sustainability. Social representations, public discourses and individual narratives

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Veronica Allegretti, Carlo Genova, Silvia Mazzucotelli Salice, Eleonora Noia, Alessia Toldo

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Narrating sustainable food consumption

di Veronica Allegretti, Carlo Genova, Silvia Mazzucotelli Salice, Eleonora Noia, Alessia Toldo pagine: 8 € 6,00

Beyond Organic? Discourses and Practices Around the Institutionalization of Alternative Agriculture in Italy

di Stefano Spillare pagine: 16 € 6,00

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In recent years, the organic sector has experienced unprecedented growth, primarily driven by increasing demand and institutional policies. However, this success is also being undermined by growing criticism and emerging challenges. More than ever, the organic sector appears to be a contested domain, characterized by diverse actors and new market players, each with different visions and interpretations of the term “organic”. This contribution aims to explore the various scenarios, perspectives, and discourses of the involved actors, critically illuminating the ambiguities and the governmentality that is steering the current phase of transition.

How do representations of sustainable food consumption change among different generations of critical consumers? Insights from Civic Food Networks in Milan

di Cecilia Cornaggia pagine: 14 € 6,00

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From the last decades of the 20th Century, facing the criticalities of the agri-food system, some consumers in industrialized countries have started to build Civic Food Networks (CFNs) for sustainable food provisioning. In Italy, the most widespread form of CFNs is Solidarity Purchasing Groups (SPGs). SPGs were founded both with the aim of acquiring sustainable food and with the political ideal of transforming society by reconfiguring the economic relations between producers and consumers. Today, in a context in which sustainable food is easily accessible, what is the sense for young people to start new CFNs? Using a selection of qualitative materials, the article compares the meanings that two different generations of CFNs founders attribute to their consumption practices. The results show that they share similar representations of sustainable consumption, but the younger generation doesn’t attribute to it a political meaning. This reflects into a more flexible participation in CFNs.

Nature as a Stake. The construction of the semantic space of “Natural” in the field of natural wines in Italy

di Mario de Benedittis pagine: 16 € 6,00

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Over the past two decades, the Italian wine industry has witnessed a pivotal shift towards sustainable practices, prominently featuring the rise of natural wines. This paper explores how “naturalness” in wine is not merely an inherent quality but a construct shaped by the interplay of production, communication, and consumption. It seeks to understand the definitional boundaries and identity of natural wine through the practices and discourses of producers, critics, and event organizers. The theoretical framework employed treats the concept of natural wine as the result of positioning in a relational space, a social field in Bourdieu’s terms. This perspective helps understand the internal logics that dictate the behaviors of agents within the field and how they compete to define its boundaries. Through a variety of methods including in-depth interviews, ethnographies, and content analysis, this research illuminates how the boundaries of what constitutes “natural” are continually negotiated and contested by various stakeholders within the wine industry, producing an institutionalization of the field and the semantic space associated to it.

Differences in Meat Reduction. The Role of General Understandings and Social Environment

di Alicia Dunker pagine: 14 € 6,00

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This study examines the nuances of meat reduction within a Social Practice Theories (SPT)-inspired framework. Relying on comprehensive data from a cross-sectional survey in Hamburg, Germany, bivariate analyses (N=325) show that self-identified vegetarians exhibit a stronger commitment to animal welfare and sustainability and are more integrated into like-minded social circles than flexitarians. Results from a Latent Class Analysis suggest two distinct groups among all meat reducers, characterised even more strongly by their level of commitment. This points to the prevalence of a reflexive versus a traditional and tacit performance of meat reduction. Vegetarians were more likely to fall within the highly involved group, supporting the idea that total meat renunciation is associated with a combination of general understandings of sustainability and a community orientation. At the same time, the findings emphasise the importance of routine and normalisation for meat reduction practices overall.

No grill pass. Discursive strategies and the tautology of fear around edible insects

di Sebastiano Benasso, Luisa Stagi pagine: 16 € 6,00

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This paper investigates the discourse surrounding the introduction of edible insects as novel foods in the European Union, focusing on the societal and political reactions in Italy. This reaction neglects the potential of insect farming in terms of sustainability and fosters reactionary standings against novel foods. This cultural aversion is linked to food neophobia, the fear of trying unfamiliar foods, which is influenced by socio-demographic factors such as education, age, and political orientation. The study explores how these responses are rooted in discursive strategies that invoke fear and protectionism, emphasising perceived health risks and threats to culinary traditions. The perspective of “tautology of fear” (Dal Lago 1999) is employed to analyse the media narratives and political statements that perpetuate a sense of threat. Through a media discourse analysis, we take into account public statements by Italian right-wing politicians, social media content posted by political relational influencers, and the audience’s reactions on social media.

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Narrating sustainable food consumption

Beyond Organic? Discourses and Practices Around the Institutionalization of Alternative Agriculture in Italy

How do representations of sustainable food consumption change among different generations of critical consumers? Insights from Civic Food Networks in Milan

Nature as a Stake. The construction of the semantic space of “Natural” in the field of natural wines in Italy

Differences in Meat Reduction. The Role of General Understandings and Social Environment

No grill pass. Discursive strategies and the tautology of fear around edible insects

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