The Singaporean foodscape - Convenience, choice, entertainment, and sociality for young workers

Leu, Jodie; Rebello, Salome A.; Sargent, Ginny; Kelly, Matthew; Banwell, Cathy

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2023.106992

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“…[9][10][11]), analyzing them as cultural constructs (indicatively, refs. [12][13][14][15][16][17]), discovering how to guide and influence practices [18], fostering sustainability among food industry [19], and understanding how practices vary across different contexts and occasions [20].…”

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From Food to “Detoxification”: A Framework for Understanding and Shaping Social Practices and Their Networking

Erbaş

2024

Sustainability

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Understanding how social practices, like cooking, evolve and network in our daily lives is crucial for addressing sustainability and well-being challenges. While existing research prioritizes swift and holistic transformation of the network of practices, a critical gap exists in comprehending how these networks form and how they can be analyzed in practice. This study addresses this gap by introducing a novel analytical framework. This framework, which moves beyond analyzing the ‘performative’ aspects of practices (e.g., food sharing), sheds light on how interactions with objects shape and contribute to the emergence and interconnectedness of practices. By applying this framework to the case study of note-by-note cooking, we showcase its utility in three key scenarios: Unveiling the “Why”: Analyzing how objects become “ideologically coded” within practice networks allows us to understand the underlying factors shaping them. This empowers researchers and practitioners to identify and potentially “recode” unsustainable or undesirable practices towards desired outcomes. Strategic Intervention: By strategically introducing new objects into the network, the framework provides insights into “neutralizing” the influence of undesirable practices. This targeted approach allows for more nuanced interventions within existing practice networks. Cultivating New Practices: The framework empowers researchers and practitioners to develop or “encode” alternative practices by leveraging object–practitioner interactions. This enables the creation of entirely new practices or the expansion of existing ones, fostering positive societal transformations.

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From Food to “Detoxification”: A Framework for Understanding and Shaping Social Practices and Their Networking

Erbaş

2024

Sustainability

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Digital Marketing Benchmark Between Cafes in Asean: A Systematic Literature Review

Hadi,

Sarwono

2024

2024 2nd International Conference on Technology Innovation and Its Applications (ICTIIA)

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Working young adults’ engagement with public and workplace health promotion efforts in Singapore: A qualitative study

Leu,

Rebello,

Sargent

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Young adults entering the workforce are at increased risk of becoming overweight or obese. Yet, internationally, young adults are rarely targeted in health campaigns, and little is known on how to improve their interest and participation in health promotion efforts. Through 33 semi-structured interviews with young adults working in Singapore, we explored their engagement with existing public and workplace health promotion efforts that encouraged healthy eating and increased physical activity, and their subjective health in the context of their daily lives. Interviews were coded and thematically analysed, taking an inductive and deductive approach. Despite some interest in health messaging, participating working young adults rarely adopted health-promoting activities such as meeting daily recommended servings of fruits and vegetables and exercising regularly. Participants reported that the health promotion campaigns they were aware of, suggested actions that they couldn’t incorporate in their lives as they did not address the barriers that they are facing from socio-environmental contributors such as long working hours, personal and social commitments, and the food environment. Furthermore, some considered their health to be good enough and therefore had little reason to change existing practices. Affordable and accessible health screenings were an objective way for young adults to re-evaluate their perceptions of their own health which motivated some to favourably change their behaviours. Our findings suggest that future health promotion campaigns would benefit from more fully addressing some of the existing barriers that young working adults face, in tandem with policy changes to directly tackle the socio-environmental conditions for young workers.

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The Singaporean foodscape - Convenience, choice, entertainment, and sociality for young workers

Cited by 3 publications

References 51 publications

From Food to “Detoxification”: A Framework for Understanding and Shaping Social Practices and Their Networking

From Food to “Detoxification”: A Framework for Understanding and Shaping Social Practices and Their Networking

Digital Marketing Benchmark Between Cafes in Asean: A Systematic Literature Review

Working young adults’ engagement with public and workplace health promotion efforts in Singapore: A qualitative study

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