Understanding Everyday Kitchen Life: Looking at Performance, into Performances and for Practices

Martens, Lydia; Scott, Sue

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“…Daily practises that often include non-reflective, routine, or corporeal dimensions may be challenging to verbalise, underlining the importance of collecting data on activities in situ and engaging in introspective reflection. It is worthwhile to study what people actually do, not simply what they say they do (Martens & Scott, 2017), and to complement interview, survey, or diary methods with approaches that capture the flow of activities in so-called naturally-occurring situations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Informal learning and food sense in home cooking

2018

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This exploratory article examines the novel term food sense and informal learning in the context of home cooking. Its theory draws from Dewey's work and from his notions of reflexive thought and action. The data consist of a transcribed audio recording of an in-depth, video-based, stimulated-recall (SR) interview. The auto-ethnographic videos were used to stimulate conversation during the interview and were previously collected as part of a broader research project on home cooking in a Finnish family context. Based on the theory and the data, the definition of food sense was refined into a model consisting of three levels: 'Understanding' as the ability to define and interpret emerging ruptures in activity; 'Applying' as the competence to plan and execute solutions that function in context; and 'Re-defining' as the reformulation of activities to enable new ways of doing. In reference to the empirical examples, two of the three episodes represented 'Understanding' and 'Applying'; whereas the third example included also the potential for re-defining habitual ways of action. However, despite possession of relevant knowledge and initial motivation, the emergence of negative emotions of the person in charge of the cooking process prevented reformulating existing cooking habits. By providing novel insights into the social, cultural, and situated nature of home cooking, the article complements the more individual-focused and/or knowledge-based approaches used by other recent studies of cooking skills and learning.

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Informal learning and food sense in home cooking

2018

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“…As was expected, the meanings of cooking were revealed through the analytical focus on sayings linked to the practice (Martens, 2012). Although the embodied and sensory knowledge engaged in performances cannot always be verbalised (Martens et al., 2014; Martens and Scott, 2017), the auto-ethnographical perspective of the first author made it possible to integrate unspoken representations and reflections into the analysis. Watching the videos reminded Kaisa of a whole repertoire of motives and emotions that affect the performances as plans and aims (e.g.…”

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“…This requires continual planning, scheduling and debating how to manoeuvre the family in the midst of overlapping practices. Therefore, everyday cooking should also be understood as a flexible and situational process of constantly evaluated and negotiated performances (Halkier, 2009) that are not directly comparable to representations of cooking as socially shared entities (Martens and Scott, 2017). The continual actions that people carry out create complex networks of doings and sayings that affect one another, but that become linked by the particular elements that organise recognisable practices (Schatzki, 1996: 103).…”

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“…Bugge and Almås, 2006; Halkier, 2010; McCabe and De Waal Malefyt, 2015; Short, 2006; Wolfson et al., 2016). Talking about cooking may stimulate participants to discuss primarily the meanings and motivations related to the practice (Martens, 2012), but the video method also records the situational and embodied aspects of cooking that may be difficult to recall or verbalise (Martens and Scott, 2017; Pink, 2012a, 2012b; Wills et al., 2016). We used the video method to obtain a picture of mundane cooking as comprehensively as possible.…”

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Elements of practice in the analysis of auto-ethnographical cooking videos

Torkkeli

Mäkelä

Niva

2018

Journal of Consumer Culture

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This article analyses cooking videos recorded at home by means of the practice-theoretical approach. It employs two conceptualisations of the elements of practice that have stood out in recent applications of practice theories in sociological consumption and food studies. The first conceptualisation comprises understandings, procedures and engagements and the second materials, competences and meanings. To study cooking as a situationally performed mundane practice, auto-ethnographical videos of cooking were filmed using the first author’s family. To analyse the practice of cooking as a composition of doings and sayings, the videos were coded with a video analysis program, Interact, into visual charts, and the discussions related to cooking performances were transcribed. The analysis suggests that the cooking practice involves interplay among the elements of the two conceptualisations: procedures join materials with competences, engagements link competences with meanings and understandings connect meanings with materials. This is visualised as a triangle in which understandings, procedures and engagements represent the sides of the triangle between the apexes of materials, competences and meanings. By combining an auto-ethnographical perspective with a video method and by analysing the practice of cooking as a situational and embodied performance, the study contributes to the current understanding of the elements of practice and introduces a novel empirical application of practice theory.

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“…Social practice theory has been applied in various studies to understand residential energy use, e.g., [21][22][23]. It has also been used for understanding everyday kitchen life [24], kitchen transformation and renewal [25], and to study the use of specific appliances within the kitchen [26,27].…”

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Designing for Circularity—Addressing Product Design, Consumption Practices and Resource Flows in Domestic Kitchens

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Both the daily use and renewal of kitchens significantly contribute to the overall environmental impact of domestic buildings. To identify design implications related to circular consumption in domestic kitchens, 20 household interviews and one focus group session were performed, investigating how kitchens are used and transformed to meet households’ wants and needs. This study determined that daily kitchen resource use is greatly affected by kitchen design and that typical kitchen design generally does not promote sustainable resource use. Key factors that support minimization of resource use in the kitchen are the availability and planning of storage and workspaces. Furthermore, kitchens should be equipped with functions that enable households to use energy and water efficiently. Regarding kitchen renewal, various motivations that may initiate kitchen renovations can be summarised as follows: (1) Functional demands and changing needs, (2) aesthetic demands and changing trends, (3) obsolescence due to wear, and (4) linkage to another home renovation. This article concludes that a combination of design strategies is needed to reach a higher level of kitchen circularity. Moreover, these design strategies must be accompanied by circular business models and efforts to increase awareness of the environmental impact related to activities in and involving the kitchen.

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Understanding Everyday Kitchen Life: Looking at Performance, into Performances and for Practices

Abstract: This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).

Cited by 26 publications

References 25 publications

Informal learning and food sense in home cooking

Informal learning and food sense in home cooking

Elements of practice in the analysis of auto-ethnographical cooking videos

Designing for Circularity—Addressing Product Design, Consumption Practices and Resource Flows in Domestic Kitchens

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