Young Danes, Bente Halkier shows, seek ‘convenient’ foods. ‘Conveniencization’ takes many forms, it is not just ‘convenience food’. Just because convenient food is normalized doesn’t mean it’s become socially acceptable. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Peter Jackson & Valerie Viehoff offer a critical review & synthesis of research on convenience food highlighting the moral ambiguity attached to the term. Argues for an approach that examines how ideas of convenience are embedded in everyday practices. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Methodologically innovative study by @kitchens1ave & Peter Jackson that uses rich ethnographic evidence to demonstrate how convenience often can be used as a form of care in food practices. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

Quantitative study by de Backer & Hudders that aims to measure the respective impact of educational & edutainment cookery shows on cooking practices. Any significant impact on behaviour is restricted to men. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In Journal of Gender Studies, @DrJulieParsons uses auto/biographical methods to affirm the continuing relevance of DeVault’s findings on class, femininity & cooking, & shows how ‘healthy’ feeding practices are a way of doing middle-class mothering. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Using Critical Discouse Analysis, Matwick (in CDS) shows how US cookbooks by Ree Drummond - The Pioneer Woman, Giada De Laurentiis & @inagarten present cooking as a way of caring for men/families & as a leisure acitivity that can empower women. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Listened to this earlier this week & it’s a lovely piece for anyone interested in food histories, gender & cooking.

Analyses how the campaigning culinary TV documentary Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s War on Waste acts as a ‘pedagogical text’ that demonstrates the pleasures of adopting sustainable lifestyles & investigates corporate networks of waste. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Analysis by martin caraher & Rebecca Wells of how UK press coverage of food banks, 1993-2014, did little to investigate the structural reasons for the rise of food banks, partly due to economic pressures within UK journalism. emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.110…

In CriticalSocialPolicy & based on research with @TrussellTrust & FareShare, Hannah Lambie-Mumford examines how questions about food insecurity & food charity can challenge how contemporary social policy thinks about equality & wellbeing. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

In Canadian Association for Food Studies, Martin examines low-income mothers’ foodwork. Explores how attempts to conform to middle-class constructions of the ‘good mother’ & ‘good consumer’ can contradict expectations of the ‘good participant’ in community food programmes. canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/…

Ibrahim examines how ‘austerity food bloggers’ such as Jack Monroe resist representations that pathologize or shame the urban poor by making their everyday experiences visible & shaming the powerful who are responsible for their position. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We just launched our call for sessions at #RGSIBG2019. For more information please consult with our website (foodgeographies.wordpress.com/2018/12/04/foo…) or @DrMikeHardman

This looks really useful.