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Gfeller, Fabienne
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“I have the feeling that we never do well enough”. Positioning in a landscape of normative discourses
2019-8-19, Gfeller, Fabienne
Paper presented in the double symposium "Measured and imagined lives: experiences of development within constraints"; Chairs: Pernille Hviid, University of Copenhagen & Tania Zittoun, University of Neuchâtel Abstract: In the WEIRD (western, educated, industrial, rich and democratic) countries (Henrich et al., 2010), a large majority of people regularly consumes products of animal origin. Examining the justification for meat consumption among those who eat it, researchers identified what they call the 4Ns: meat consumption is presented as necessary, normal, nice and natural (Piazza et al., 2015). In that sense, vegetarianism constitutes a deviant behavior to this norm (Boyle, 2011), that provokes reactions as it questions the taken-for-granted normality and necessity of meat consumption (Larue, 2015). However, the issue of meat consumption also intersects with many other normative discourses, such as being an ethical consumer, being a hedonist or being coherent in one’s choices. In this paper, I examine the way people who recently changed their foodway regarding food of animal origin navigate among these different discourses. In order to do so, I will draw mainly on Benson’s theorization of the self as a locative system that allows humans to orient and position themselves in material and symbolic landscapes (Benson, 2001). Analyzing data collected through narrative interviews and a dialogic experiment, I will examine how participants, in the positioning process, engage with these norms and how they measure themselves as doing well enough, exaggerating or failing. I argue that Benson’s approach is a useful tool for analyzing the positioning in a specific normative landscape, but that it tends to overlook the question of the resources and conditions that make a dialogue with the normative discourses possible.
“It’s Still an Animal That Died for Me.” Responsibility and Meat Consumption
2019, Gfeller, Fabienne
Young researchers conference of the Centre for Research on Social Interactions. Conference report
2017-12-31, Volpin, Letizia, Skogmyr Marian, Klara, Gfeller, Fabienne, Gonzalez, Sylvia, Bangerter, Adrian
Creativity and food: Using Benson’s theory of self as locative system to analyze change in foodways
2017-8-22, Gfeller, Fabienne
“I don’t want to give money to these people.” Responsibility in positioning towards meat production
2019-3-21, Gfeller, Fabienne
“…and then I think I’m eating an animal that was alive”: Animals as absent others and potential food
2018-6-15, Gfeller, Fabienne
Trajectories of food habits: Understanding change from a subjective perspective
2017-9-4, Gfeller, Fabienne
Changing one’s foodway: Creativity as repositioning
2019, Gfeller, Fabienne, Lebuda, Izabela, Glaveanu, Vlad Petre
Conference proceedings of the Young Researchers conference of the Centre for Research on Social Interactions (CRSI-YR)
2018, Gonzalez, Sylvia, Skogmyr Marian, Klara, Volpin, Letizia, Gfeller, Fabienne, Bietti, Lucas, Bangerter, Adrian
Understanding change in food habits through the notion of trajectory: a place for the subject in the change
2017-8-24, Gfeller, Fabienne
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