%0 Journal Article
%T Making the Self in a Material World: Food and Moralities of Consumption
%A Isabelle de Solier
%J Cultural Studies Review
%D 2013
%I UTS ePRESS
%X Food is increasingly central to consumer culture today. From fine dining restaurants to farmers¡¯ markets, stainless steel kitchenware to celebrity chef cookbooks, there is a stylish array of culinary commodities available for fashioning our identities. Yet this occurs at a time when commodity consumption more generally is under greater question as a site of self-making, with the rise of anti-consumerist sentiment. This article examines how people negotiate these issues in their identity formation, by focusing on those for whom food is central to their sense of self: ¡®foodies¡¯. I draw on theories of consumption, identity and material culture, in particular the work of Daniel Miller, to examine ethnographic research undertaken with foodies in Melbourne, Australia.
%K Food
%K consumption
%K material culture
%K identity
%U http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/3079