Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life

This edited collection explores the significance of a range of food practices for childhood identities in the context of children's everyday lives in different cultural settings. The relationship between children and food is currently high on the political agendas of many countries particularly in r [...]
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This edited collection explores the significance of a range of food practices for childhood identities in the context of children's everyday lives in different cultural settings. The relationship between children and food is currently high on the political agendas of many countries particularly in relation to matters such as childhood obesity and children's exposure to media discourses of various kinds. Within these, children's relationship with food is often problematized and yet we still know little about children's everyday encounters with food, or how they are positioned as consumers by television and marketing, but also by their mothers at home or by their peers at school. By exploring children's own everyday food encounters, alongside the ways in which childhood identities are constructed and mediated through food this volume provides a more measured and insightful understanding of the various and subtle dimensions of the relationship between children, food and identity than is normally headlined in the press.In drawing on empirical material from research in the UK, USA, and Europe, stretching from early babyhood through to middle childhood and youth, the volume also enables an understanding of the changing relationship between children, food and identity over time.