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- Title
Imagined foodways and rejected biopedagogies: Rural children's perspectives of rural foodways.
- Authors
Ersfjord, Ellen M. I.; Plasil, Tanja; Heggem, Reidun
- Abstract
Rural residency is an independent risk factor for being overweight, but little is known about why this is so. The purpose of our study was to gain insight into what Norwegian rural children say about a rural diet in comparison to an urban one. Child‐friendly methods were used. We found a discrepancy between what the children said they eat – traditional, 'healthy' foods, and what they ate – largely ultra‐processed foods. We explored this by using the frameworks of imagined foodways and biopedagogies. Their imagined foodways were rooted in notions of 'traditional food', connected to surrounding nature and a history of farming and hunting. Urban people were perceived as eating an inferior diet of very unhealthy and ultra‐processed foods of which they do not know the origin of. As a result, the children rejected specific health‐ and nutrition recommendations that were incompatible with their notions of traditional foods, leading to a more calorie dense diet than their urban counterparts. Our research adds to knowledge on what role a rural diet can play on the prevalence of overweight in rural areas, and how biopedagogies can be recontextualized within different cultural fields.
- Subjects
NORWAY; PACKAGED foods; COOKING; FOOD consumption; HEALTH attitudes; GROUP identity; RESEARCH funding; NATURE; TASK performance; REFRIGERATION &; refrigerating machinery; RESIDENTIAL patterns; CULTURE; NORWEGIANS; DISEASE prevalence; ATTITUDE (Psychology); THEMATIC analysis; RURAL conditions; METROPOLITAN areas; CHILDHOOD obesity; AGRICULTURE; HUNTING; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Children & Society, 2024, Vol 38, Issue 4, p1007
- ISSN
0951-0605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/chso.12765