Moral and aesthetic consecration and higher status consumers’ tastes: The “good” food revolution
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Shyon Baumann is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He is a cultural sociologist who studies questions of classification, evaluation, legitimacy, and inequality. He is currently working with co-authors on a large-scale project on the meat industry in North America, drawing on original data on meat producers and meat consumers. He is also involved in a project that seeks to refine the conceptualization and measurement of classed cultural consumption.
Emily Huddart Kennedy is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests bring together environmental sociology, cultural sociology, and the sociology of consumers and consumption to interrogate how individuals, groups, and communities seek to effect positive changes to the natural environment and to understand consumer perceptions and motivations.
Josée Johnston is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research is centrally concerned with understand how cultural and political forces reproduce and legitimate the inequitable and unsustainable features of capitalist economies. She primarily uses food as a lens for investigating questions relating to consumer culture, ethical consumption, gender politics, sustainability, and inequality. Her most recent research stream investigates the cultural politics of meat consumption.