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Stewart, Kate 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2529-954X and Cole, Matthew
(2009)
The conceptual separation of food and animals in childhood.
Food, Culture and Society, 12 (4).
pp. 457-476.
ISSN 1751-7443
Abstract
Nonhuman animals are primarily defined according to their form of relation with human beings, which broadly depends on the perceived utility of those animals to humans. These relations may be analyzed to generate typologies, membership of which circumscribes the probable fate of nonhuman animals when they enter into contact with humans. However, these judgments of utility and category membership are contingent and socially constructed, as demonstrated by cultural and historical variability in the species and individual animals assigned to particular types.This paper explores how the combination of childhood literary and film traditions relating to animals and associated promotional food tie-ins aimed at children contribute to a food socialization process whereby children learn to conceptually distance the animals they eat from those with whom they have an emotional bond or for whom they feel ethically responsible. In so doing, we develop a theoretical scheme for the differentiated positioning of animals.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Sociology |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2022 13:30 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2022 03:35 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/83761 |
| DOI: | 10.2752/175174409X456746 |
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