Discursive Families
Introduction
Leverhulme International Network Dissemination Event: Discursive Families, A seminar on the changing notions of the family, Edinburgh, 6-7 Feb 2012
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The Leverhulme Trust
Leverhulme International Network Dissemination Event:
Discursive Families
6-7th February 2012
The University of Edinburgh Business School
29 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh, EH8 9JS
“Political rhetoric, academic knowledge and popular media texts are all discourses that place restrictions on ways of talking about the family as a topic” (Chambers 2001: 26).
This dissemination seminar reports on the initial findings from a Leverhulme International Network project looking at the representation and discourse around families in two popular magazines, Good Housekeeping (UK) and Australian Women’s Weekly (Australia), between 1950 and 2010. This focuses on families and food but includes work on domestic routines and representations of family life. In the second part of the seminar invited speakers will present on different aspects of research on the family from the UK and Australia. Of particular interest are the prescriptive rules, the subjects that personify the discourse, and the practices around food, lifestyle consumption that form and reform the ‘family’ as an idea. In the final workshop participants are invited to discuss the idea of the family and how this has changed over time in particular socio-historical contexts. The workshop will offer an opportunity to look at how this area of research and the network might develop to prolong and develop the debate.
This seminar will be of particular interest to academic researchers and practitioners engaged in work looking at changing notions of the family, particularly marketing and media scholars, researchers in consumer culture and behaviour, sociologists working in the area, food historians…
This event is free to participants but numbers are restricted so please register early for a place.
All participants are expected to cover their own travel and overnight accommodation but we are happy to provide recommendations for accommodation.
Presentations of the findings from our research will include:
Visual representations of the family in the AWW and GH, 1950-2010
Family and food over time: From cooked family meal to hybrid eating
Caring through consumption: Caring for, about and with in the GH, 1950-2010
Speakers at the Dissemination Event will include:
- Alison James and Penny Curtis (Sheffield): Food and family display
- John Coveney (Flinders): Parents’ views on children’s eating habits: the influence of social class
- Ann Murcott (Nottingham): The amazing power of (the ideology of) family meals’
- Benedetta Cappellini (Royal Holloway) and Liz Parsons (Keele): Who’s work is it anyway? The shifting dynamics of responsibility in family mealtime practices
- Susanna Molander (Stockholm): Everyday dinners and meta-practices: contextualizing family consumption
- Pauline McLaran (Royal Holloway): The Mediating Role of the Built Environment in Family Consumption Practices Across Domestic and Public Spaces
- Lydia Martens (Keele): From Housewife to Mother: Reading Cultural Change in Good Housekeeping Magazine (1951-2011)
The Leverhulme International Network consists of:
- Professor David Marshall, University of Edinburgh
- Professor Margaret Hogg, Lancaster University
- Dr Tanja Schneider, University of Oxford
- Professor Teresa Davis, The University of Sydney
- Professor Alan Petersen, Monash University
For further information regarding the Project or the Dissemination Event, please contact Professor David Marshall at
To register for the Dissemination Event, please contact Lynn Walford at lynn.walford@ed.ac.uk
University of Ediburgh Business School
University of Oxford
Monash University
The University of Sydney
Lancaster University Management School
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