'A Slice of Life': Food Narratives and Menus from Mass-Observers in 1982 and 1945

This paper reports on an analysis of hitherto unexamined documentary data on food held within the UK Mass Observation Archive (MOA). In particular it discusses responses to the 1982 Winter Directive which asked MOA correspondents about their experiences of food and eating, and the food diaries submitted by MOA panel members in 1945. What is striking about these data is the extent to which memories of food and eating are interwoven with recollections of the lifecourse; in particular social relations, family life, and work. It seems asking people about food generates insight into aspects of everyday life. In essence, memories of food provide a crucial and potentially overlooked medium for developing an appreciation of social change. We propose the concept \'food narratives\' to capture the essence of these reflections because they reveal something more than personal stories; they are both individual and collective experiences in that personal food narratives draw upon shared cultural repertoires, generational memories, and tensions between age cohorts. Food narratives are embodied and embedded in social networks, socio-cultural contexts and socio-economic epochs. Thus the daily menus recorded in 1945 and memories scribed in 1982 do not simply communicate what people ate, liked and disliked but throw light on two contrasting moments of British history; the end of the second world war and an era of transition, reform, individualization, diversity which was taking place in the early 1980s.Mass Observation Archive; Food and Eating; Qualitative; Personal Food Narratives; Secondary Analysis; Longitudinal

To have, or to feel like having : the effect of psychological ownership on consumer well-being

This dissertation is among one of the first to introduce the concept of psychological ownership (Jussila, Tarkiainen, Sarstedt, and Hair, 2015) into consumer well-being research. Previous studies explored how “having” something makes people happy, but they all tend to view “having” as a state of legal ownership over the objects, and neglect the role of psychological ownership. According to self-determination theory, the author suggests that psychological ownership has a stronger impact on happiness than legal ownership, because the routes to psychological ownership satisfy the basic psychological needs including competence, autonomy, and relatedness. Through three experiments, the results show: 1) consumers feel happier when they have a higher psychological ownership over an item, e.g. a book rent form a library, regardless of whether they legally own the item. This effect is mediated by the satisfaction of basic psychological needs; 2) consumers anticipate greater happiness from a product that they customized as a gift either for themselves or for their friends. This effect is mediated by increased psychological ownership towards the gift through customization; 3) experiential framing of marketing messages influence consumers’ psychological ownership positively towards the advertised product, which in turn generates greater anticipated happiness. Theoretically, this dissertation contributes to the literature by providing an enhanced understanding of consumer happiness by uncovering the role of psychological ownership in the buying process. Practically, the study will help marketers make their products/services as a better candidate for the target of psychological ownership through message design and user experience design. The research on psychological ownership in consumer well-being is still in infancy. Future research should examine the effect of psychological ownership on sustainable consumer behaviors including reducing overconsumption, encouraging recycling, and promoting sharing economy as ways to enhance well-being.Advertisin

Meals for All Seasons: the Best of Contemporary Irish Cooking

One of Ireland\u27s most popular writers on food and cooking. Georgina Campbell has produced a cookbook that gives the lie to today\u27s popular notion of different foods being good or bad for you. In her book all food has the potential to be good food. She particularly looks at sugar, making the point that it is an essential ingredient in many recipes, with a whole range of different properties Taken from sleeve. Published by Wolfhound Press, 68 Mountjoy Square, Dublin 1at a cost of €14.99. ISBN: 086327322Xhttps://arrow.tudublin.ie/irckbooks/1032/thumbnail.jp

The extreme phronesis of Percy Cerutty : A narrativized life history of a legendary sports coach

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals and Newsletters at Digital Commons @ CIIS. It has been accepted for inclusion in International Journal of Transpersonal Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ CIIS. For more information, please contact [email protected] paper presents and interprets a narrativized coaching life history of the Australian athletics coach Percy Cerutty (1895-1975). Through a relational process of self-improvement and practical wisdom sometimes called phronesis, Cerutty exemplifies an intimate interconnectedness with his own and others’ experiences, with the natural environment, and with the transformative capacities of such influences, as often highlighted in transpersonal literature. Three potential themes are offered from the resultant meaning-making: a feel for the game, phronesis, and the coach as a paradoxical figure. Those themes are also interwoven with a consideration of how Cerutty’s story and practices might link to aspects of the transpersonal approach, using the motifs of redemption, transformation, and transcendence, as well as to elements of coaching theory. The paper concludes by evaluating Cerutty’s influence and legacy, and their broader implications.Peer reviewe

Children and healthy eating: A global, policy and school curriculum perspective

Healthy eating is a topic most people would consider they have an understanding of, yet it is an area which is not often addressed from a critical perspective. Healthy eating is freely discussed in society. It is a dominant discourse used commercially and frequently appears in educational \u27texts\u27, however the discourses surrounding healthy eating for children are not well analysed and are most often controlled by the media and often not challenged. A critical perspective to children\u27s eating is adopted for this portfolio and multiple perspectives bought to bare regarding the globalisation of food cultures, and governance and policy influences on healthy eating for children. Healthy eating for children is presented and problematised as a concept while family changes in eating patterns and curriculum influences are interpreted and challenged through the development of a case study investigation of an educational intervention. Findings of the intervention indicate that families are struggling with the notion of healthy eating through a range of parental pressures whereas and any additional assistance regarding healthy eating for children is well received by parents and accepted by children