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Maria Fuentes.

Maria Fuentes

Senior lecturer, associate professor

Maria Fuentes.

Convenient Food for Baby: A Study of Weaning as a Social Practice

Author

  • Helene Brembeck
  • Maria Fuentes

Summary, in English

This article reports findings from a study of weaning from a perspective informed by practice theory. The overall aim is to examine how parents integrate convenience baby food into their everyday feeding practices. The focus is the embedding of convenience baby foods in the routines and rhythms of everyday life and the “do-ability” of different practices. The study is based on fieldwork with nineteen mothers in Falköping in western Sweden. Results show that local do-abilities emerge out of situated combinations of materials, competences, and meanings. Convenience proves to be an emergent category rather than a property of particular kinds of food.

Publishing year

2017

Language

English

Publication/Series

Food, Culture and Society

Volume

20

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • baby food
  • convenience
  • weaning
  • social practice

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1552-8014