In cultural studies and media studies, the question of consumer agency continues to be contested with respect to the role played by context (cultural, political, social, economic, etc.), identity (gender, race, ethnicity, class, etc.), media (institutions and content), and material culture (technology, environment, food, fashion, etc.).
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Eating as Practice: Consumption Between Agency and Predictable Performance
By Irina D. Mihalache
Alan Warde. The Practice of Eating. Polity Press, 2016. 203 pp.