In order to understand the act of eating it becomes necessary to place it within a determinate society, time and space, which are structured by concrete practices and organized by specific rules and norms. Knowledge about food consumption within the working space is relevant because the food practices deployed during office hours are linked to the relation between energy use and the replenishment of energies necessaries for the working tasks. These strategies of selection of meals by the women interviewed were organized in the articulation between the available physical space, the body and the available time for eating. These women seek to eat in the fastest time possible and therefore consume "fast food" and "light" food. At this way, a "disposable commensality" is structured as a way of everyday eating in the office, where the relation heavy/fast organizes the food practices in contrast to the body used as a recipient. The data for this article is part of a wider research in which I seek to describe the everyday eating practices of working women within the spaces of national public offices, in relation to their eating and commensality. The article begins with (a) the exposition of the bases connecting bodies/emotions with eating; b) present the meals selected daily and the strategies for the selections of these meals as explained by the women and c) d) explain the relation between food/body/space.
El presente trabajo es el producto de los puntos de encuentro entre nuestras investigaciones sobre las prácticas del comer en la oficina de trabajadoras estatales y las prácticas de consumo de las destinatarias de los Programas de Transferencias Condicionadas de Ingresos, ambas con recorte geográfico en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Desde dichos recorridos hemos identificado el modo en que las prácticas del comer y las prácticas de consumo se organizan en relación a emociones como el amor maternal, que se vinculan a estrategias de intervención estatal, que mediadas por el trabajo social, se han masificado en las sociedades latinoamericanas. En vista de aquello, el objetivo de este escrito es recuperar el modo en que el amor maternal organiza ciertas prácticas y cómo lo hace a partir de asumir -estas mujeres madres- un lugar de sacrificialidad, donde es siempre a partir de satisfacer a otros -los hijos- que se encuentra el disfrute y la satisfacción. Este recorrido se hará a partir de una estrategia de indagación cualitativa, utilizando entrevistas en profundidad. Se concluye que el amor maternal es una emoción que vehiculiza prácticas de cuidado que colocan a las mujeres madres en la vivencia de la abnegación, la culpa y la falta. This paper is the product of the meeting points of our investigations about the eating practices in the office and the practices of consumption from the recipients of the Conditional Cash Transfers, both in the City of Buenos Aires. From these paths we have identified the way in which eating practices and consumption practices are organized in relation to emotions such as maternal love, linked to the strategies of state intervention. Those Interventions, mediated by social work, have been massified in the Latin American societies. In this sense, the aim of this work is to recover the way through maternal love organize some practices and the way in which this mothers, take the place of sacrificiality and find enjoyment and satisfaction making their children happy. This analyze will be based on a qualitative research strategy, using in-depth interviews. It is concluded that maternal love is an emotion that convey care practices that place women mothers in the experience of abnegation, feeling of guilt and lack.
Objetivo: conocer, de modo exhaustivo, las comidas que consumen las empleadas públicas de la Administración Pública Nacional Argentina, durante la jornada de trabajo y las características principales de los menús. Metodología: la estrategia metodológica utilizada fue cualitativa. Se realizaron entrevistas en profundidad, el muestreo fue de tipo intencional, bajo el procedimiento de “bola de nieve”, y el tamaño fue determinado por la saturación teórica. Resultados: los principales resultados fueron la descripción del menú cotidiano de las mujeres entrevistadas, el cual se organiza entre sándwiches, tartas y ensaladas. Por otro lado, se conoció y profundizó en la relación que se da entre la elección de la comida, sus características y el tiempo/espacio del comer en la oficina. Limitaciones: la investigación se llevó a cabo en una Secretaría de la Administración Pública Nacional Argentina, lo que limita la posibilidad de generalización de los resultados a las empleadas de la Administración Pública y el conocimiento sobre otras oficinas geolocalizadas en otras zonas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Conclusiones: se exponen las comidas que consumen cotidianamente las mujeres trabajadoras de oficina durante la jornada laboral y se sostiene que la oficina, y sus condiciones materiales de espacio/tiempo, serán las condiciones ambientales en las que se darán las prácticas del comer, conformándose una comensalidad descartable como comensalidades específica de oficina pública.
This chapter presents some reflections on the changes regarding the use of electronic commerce and digital platforms during the period of preventive and mandatory social isolation decreed in the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on the new services food services, food delivery service, and new practices around “home care.” To this end, a survey was conducted on eating practices during the first part of the isolation period in April-May 2020, and a digital ethnography was performed on new services around food and “home care” during the subsequent period. The expository strategy is as follows: 1) the theoretical approach on the sociology of bodies/emotions and its relationship with consumption and enjoyment is described, 2) virtual ethnography is defined based on its advantages as a methodology of social inquiry, 3) research results focused on the acceleration of electronic commerce and consumption “at home” are presented during the ASPO, and 4) some final reflections are made.
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