No dia 18 de Fevereiro, Amanda Krog Juvik (Universidade de Copenhaga, Dinamarca) será a oradora convidada do seminário organizado pelos Grupos de Investigação LIFE & SHIFT, com o tema Food, Emotions and Resistance in the Danish Green Transition. A partir das 11h, na Sala 3 do ICS-ULisboa e online.

Resumo:

Food consumption lies at a pivotal intersection between societal and cultural change. It is a site where economic forces, political regulation, social norms, cultural trends, and symbolic distinctions meet individual needs, resources, tastes, and everyday practices. In Denmark, alongside enduring patterns such as class-differentiated tastes, two ongoing crises are currently reshaping food consumption and food culture: rising food prices and the climate crisis. Together, these crises introduce new constraints, moral expectations,and forms of contestation around everyday eating. The research project, Eating up the Crisis: Cultural Change Seen Through the Lens of Food (CrisisCultureFood), investigates how people navigate economic pressure, environmental concerns, and shifting cultural norms in their everyday food consumption through a qualitative longitudinal panel. In this presentation, I focus on how climate-related food discourses operate not only through recommendations and knowledge claims, but through emotional norms. Drawing on the sociology of emotions, I explore how normative expectations to feel concern, guilt, or shame over resource-intensive food consumption are recognized, negotiated, and resisted. Based on interview material, I explore how ambivalence and resistance to dietary change often takes the form of affective and moral positioning and how such resistance is patterned along educational and regional lines. The analysis in progress highlights emotions as a key site where broader struggles over moral authority and recognition, in the green transition are played out.

Co-organização: GI LIFE (ICS-ULisboa) e GI SHIFT (ICS-ULisboa)