Dr CAROL MORRIS CAROL.MORRIS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Principal Research Fellow
Searching for the “politics of the possible” in flexitarianism
Morris, Carol; Kelsey, Sarah; Harper, Lauren-Rose
Authors
Sarah Kelsey
Lauren-Rose Harper
Abstract
The paper builds on recent flexitarianism scholarship by approaching this heterogeneous dietary category as a socio-cultural and political economic, rather than just a psychological phenomenon. It does this by drawing on Edmund Harris’s conceptualization of alternative food provisioning activities and subject-making as a “politics of the possible.” The paper addresses the following questions: does flexitarianism and the making of flexitarian subjectivities represent a “politics of the possible” and if so how; what are the limits of these politics and how might these limits be overcome? Empirically, the paper undertakes a qualitative analysis of UK national print news media coverage of flexitarianism and semi-structured interviews with self-identified flexitarians. Data from these two sources are interwoven in the discussion of themes that provide some evidence in support of flexitarianism as a politics of the possible, but which also draw attention to the limits of these politics. The paper concludes that only by addressing these limits can a full and critical assessment be made of flexitarianism’s contribution to a food system less dependent on animal-based foods.
Citation
Morris, C., Kelsey, S., & Harper, L. (2023). Searching for the “politics of the possible” in flexitarianism. Food, Culture and Society, Article 2175993. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2023.2175993
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 23, 2023 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 22, 2023 |
Publication Date | Feb 22, 2023 |
Deposit Date | Jan 26, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | Food, Culture and Society |
Print ISSN | 1552-8014 |
Electronic ISSN | 1751-7443 |
Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Article Number | 2175993 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2023.2175993 |
Keywords | Flexitarianism; flexitarian; politics of the possible; dietary subject-making; United Kingdom |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/16501618 |
Publisher URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15528014.2023.2175993 |
Additional Information | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Food, Culture and Society on 22 Feb 2023, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/15528014.2023.2175993 |
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