Hamilton, LA and Surman, EL (2019) Growing Consumers Through Production and Play: A Phenomenological Exploration of Food Growing in the School Foodscape. Sociology, 53 (3). pp. 468-485. ISSN 0038-0385

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Abstract

This article adopts a phenomenological perspective to illustrate how gardens become important spaces where children informally encounter, produce, consume and learn about food. We extend the theoretical concept of the ‘foodscape’ by applying it to both childhood production and consumption and, drawing on qualitative insights from two UK school gardening clubs, show why bodily and sensory phenomena are central to unlocking the potential for foodscapes as learning environments. We highlight how sensory engagement with ‘mess’ and ‘dirt’ normally dissociated from food retail and service enhances the agentic capacity of children as growers and consumers. Our central contribution to the sociology of food is to advance the argument that sensory learning is vital if children are to successfully negotiate between abstract and experiential awareness of the taste and source of myriad consumables, something which currently exacerbates the culture of anxiety and mistrust in contemporary food consumption.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This is the accepted author manuscript (AAM). The final published version (version of record) will be available online via Sage Publications at https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0038038518789542 - please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Children, food productio, foodscapes, mess, outdoor education, phenomenology, school gardens
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Keele Management School
Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 19 Jun 2018 15:48
Last Modified: 17 Jun 2019 07:52
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/5031

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