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- Title
Comer en Utopía.
- Authors
Herrera, Paloma; Lizcano, Emmánuel
- Abstract
Social studies on food and nutritional authorities coincide in emphasizing the paradoxical situation of the modern eater: people know how they should eat but do not eat as they should. Dealing with paradoxes successfully usually requires a certain —linguistic and disciplinary— distance to gain sufficient perspective. We suggest this should be done from the historical perspective that a sociology of utopia offers on the conflict between food imaginaries. To this end, we outline the common elements of utopian/dystopian thought in order to extract the categories of major interest for a sociological analysis of food policies and eating behaviours. Subsequently, we trace the ways in which some classical utopias and dystopias have focused on —or blurred— the question of food and we try to draw some conclusions.
- Subjects
FOOD &; society; FOOD habits history; NUTRITION -- Social aspects; UTOPIAS; SOCIOLOGICAL research; HISTORICAL sociology; EDUCATION
- Publication
Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2012, Issue 137, p79
- ISSN
0210-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5477/cis/reis.137.79