European Journal of Marketing: Volume 52 Issue 12

Guest editorial

Teresa Davis, Margaret K. Hogg, David Marshall, Alan Petersen, Tanja Schneider

Intersectional research stories of responsibilising the family for food, feeding and health in the twenty-first century

Teresa Davis, Margaret K. Hogg, David Marshall, Alan Petersen, Tanja Schneider

Literature from across the social sciences and research evidence are used to highlight interdisciplinary and intersectional research approaches to food and family…

Intercultural household food tensions: a relational dialectics analysis

Donal Rogan, Maria Piacentini, Gill Hopkinson

Recent global migration trends have led to an increased prevalence, and new patterning, of intercultural family configurations. This paper is about intercultural couples and how…

Learning from the past? An exploratory study of familial food socialization processes using the lens of emotional reflexivity

Tanyatip Kharuhayothin, Ben Kerrane

This paper aims to explore the parental role in children’s food socialization. More specifically, it explores how the legacy of the past (i.e. experiences from the participant’s…

Figuring the pecking order: Emerging child food preferences when species meet in the family environment

Shona M. Bettany, Ben Kerrane

Using the family activity of hobby stock-keeping (“petstock”) as a context, this paper aims to extend singularization theory to model the negotiations, agencies and resistances of…

Social eating patterns, identity and the subjective well-being of Chinese teenagers

Ann Veeck, Hongyan Yu, Hongli Zhang, Hong Zhu, Fang (Grace) Yu

The purpose of this study is to explore the association between eating patterns, social identity and the well-being of adolescents via a mixed methods study of Chinese teenagers…

Shackles of care: Family power struggles and negotiation strategies for food provision in adulthood

Amy Yau, Sofia Christidi

A growing stream of consumer research has examined the family dynamics and consumption practices that come from the changing life stages. This study aims to better understand the…

Physical and emotional nourishment: Food as the embodied component of loving care of elderly family relatives

Rachel Trees, Dianne Marion Dean

This purpose of this study is to examine the fluidity of family life which continues to attract attention. This is increasingly significant for the intergenerational relationship…

Families and food: exploring food well-being in poverty

Archana P. Voola, Ranjit Voola, Jessica Wyllie, Jamie Carlson, Srinivas Sridharan

This paper aims to investigate dynamics of food consumption practices among poor families in a developing country to advance the Food Well-being (FWB) in Poverty framework.

Food literacy, healthy eating barriers and household diet

Sanjeewa Pradeep Wijayaratne, Mike Reid, Kate Westberg, Anthony Worsley, Felix Mavondo

Food literacy is an emerging concept associated with the skills, capabilities and knowledge to prepare a healthy diet and make healthy food choices. This study aims to examine how…

The Italian breakfast: Mulino Bianco and the advent of a family practice (1971-1995)

Daniela Pirani, Benedetta Cappellini, Vicki Harman

This paper aims to examine how Mulino Bianco, an iconic Italian bakery brand, has reshaped the symbolic and material aspects of breakfast in Italy, transforming a declining…

Constraints and possibilities in the thrown togetherness of feeding the family

Amber M. Epp, Linda L. Price

Macro-social disruptions and evolutions open up new possibilities for feeding the family. This paper aims to review prior constraints imposed by the gendered history of care work…

Familial fictions: families and food, convenience and care

Peter Jackson

The purpose of this paper is to explore the way diverse family forms are depicted in recent TV advertisements, and how the ads may be read as an indication of contemporary…

“Grab gatorade!”: food marketing, regulation and the young consumer

Charlene Elliott

This paper aims to examine current regulatory initiatives on food marketing to young people and to highlight unique considerations when it comes to teenagers.

Intergenerational influences on children’s food preferences, and eating styles: A review and call for research

Elizabeth S. Moore

The purpose of this article is to examine the roles family members play in shaping young children’s food preferences and habits, as well as the extent to which these effects…

Exploring the dynamics of food routines: a practice-based study to understand households’ daily life

Margot Dyen, Lucie Sirieix, Sandrine Costa, Laurence Depezay, Eloïse Castagna

This paper aims to explore consumers’ experienced life and studies how practices interconnect and are organized on a daily basis. The objective is to contribute to a better…