Studia Humanistyczne AGH
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ISSN 2084-3364
e-ISSN: 2300-7109
Issue Date
2018
Volume
T. 17
Number
Nr 2
Description
Journal Volume
Studia Humanistyczne AGH
T. 17 (2018)
Projects
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Articles
Food fears, food distrust and food exclusion in one postsocialist culture. And beyond
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Kopczyńska, Ewa; Bachórz, Agata
Fatalité de la maison. Food trauma in post-transition Polish pop culture
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Michalak, Agata
We rarely look at Polish pop culture’s attitudes towards food. This article is an attempt to categorize ways in which food and changing foodways are an object of critical reflection in an array of cultural texts: a novel, movies, a play for kids, a TV series and hip hop and pop music lyrics.
Fat-free, high in calories. Management of diets in the case of a rare metabolic disorder
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Chowaniec-Rylke, Anna
LCHADD is a rare metabolic disorder with a worldwide prevalence estimated at 1/250,000. However in Poland birth prevalence is predicted to be 1/120,000 and as high as 1/20,000 in the Pomeranian district. The bodies of LCHADD patients cannot produce the enzymes which are key in the process of fatty acid oxidation. That means that life-threatening episodes occur only when the body is »fasting« – the calorie intake is lower than the body's needs. There are no known cures or medications for LCHADD, but with proper treatment patients can improve and survive into adulthood. The treatment involves a strict diet, high in calories but fat-free. In this article I will sketch the dietary choices made by patients' parents. Those findings will be established based on anthropological fieldwork conducted for over a year among those families. My intention is to show how decisions made by caregivers regarding an ill child's diet can be interpreted in the broader context of consumer society, agency and a social model of disability.
Social contexts of food exclusion
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Krukowska, Joanna; Rancew-Sikora, Dorota
This article deals with social problems experienced by people who exclude certain groups of products from their everyday diet. These exclusions stem from various reasons and involve a range of everyday material and social practices. They evoke particular kinds of social interactions within the household, among hosts and guests, and also induce different reflexive interpretations of the participants. The aim of this paper is to explore the problem of how elimination diets are practised and explained on an everyday basis, and to describe particular strategies and techniques undertaken by food excluders in shops, in their kitchens, and at the table. The empirical basis for the qualitative investigation is a set of eight participant observations combined with in-depth interviews conducted with urban residents with higher education living in northern Poland.
Risk and trust. Food-related concerns and »good« food procurement strategies. From research into eating practices in Poland
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Straczuk, Justyna
The article discusses how risk and trust – interpreted as social phenomena characteristic of the late modernity era – are reflected in the concerns related to everyday food choices of residents of Poland. It postulates a link between the perception of food-related threats and the meanings associated with different food procurement practices, and the specifics of a local value system and its historical determinants. Based on the analysis of responses from 70 interviewees speaking about food-related concerns, it outlines diverse strategies for verifying food choices and the types of trust that are granted to various social actors who take part in the production and distribution of food. Since the strategies and forms of trust are largely associated with social and cultural assets of consumers, the article also brings into focus their stratifying aspect, as well as levels of overall trust in people, institutions and abstract systems.