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Brembeck, H. and Fuentes, M. Convenient food for baby: a study of weaning as social practice,
Food, Culture and Society, in press.
Fuentes, M. and Brembeck, H. 2017. Best for baby? Framing weaning practice and motherhood in web-mediated marketing, Consumption Markets and Culture, 20, 2, 153-175.
Halkier, B. (2017). Normalising convenience food? The expectable and acceptable places of convenient food in everyday life among young Danes, Food, Culture and Society, 20, 133-51.
Hertz, F. and Halkier, B. Meal box schemes as a convenient way to avoid convenience food? Uses and understandings of meal box schemes among Danish consumers, Appetite, in press.
Helene Brembeck and Maria Fuentes, Best for baby. Connecting health, sustainability and convenience on the webpages of four baby food companies, International Conference on Consumer Research, Bonn (2014)
Helene Brembeck and Maria Fuentes, Convenient food for baby. An ethnographic study of processed baby food and the practice of weaning European Sociological Association, Prague (2015)
Jackson, P. 2015. Anxious Appetites: food and consumer culture. London: Bloomsbury.
Christine Wenzl, Food geographies at work: practice theory and workplace catering in Germany, RELATE workshop, Tampere, Finland (2016)
Christine Wenzl, The doing of convenience food in workplace canteens, European Sociological Association conference, Bologna (2016)
Christine Wenzl, Convenience food and convenient food: evidence from German Canteens, Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, Aarhus (2016)
Christine Wenzl and Jonathan Everts, Food geographies at work, Neue Kulturgeographie XIII, Graz (2016)
Jackson, P. 2016. Go home Jamie: reframing consumer choice, Social and Cultural Geography 17, 753-757.
Jackson, P. and Viehoff, V. 2016. Reframing convenience food. Appetite 98, 1-11.
Meah, A. and Jackson, P. Convenience as care: culinary antinomies in practice. Environment and Planning A, in press.
Maria Fuentes and Helene Brembeck, Introducing solids: normalizing convenience baby food in commercial culture, Nordic Conference on Consumer Culture, Aarhus (2016)
Maria Fuentes, The moralization of convenience food, European Sociological Association, Bologna (2016)
Conference presentations
Peter Jackson, Food, convenience and sustainability, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), London (2014)
Bente Halkier: Getting along with pizza-fication? The expectable and acceptable places of convenience food in everyday life among young Danes. Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, Vaasa, Finland (2014)
Peter Jackson, Convenience food as a chaotic concept, Roskilde University, Denmark (2014)
Peter Jackson and Angela Meah, Making sense of ‘convenience food’ in theory and practice, Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, Vaasa, Finland (2014)
Peter Jackson, Food, convenience and sustainability: the FOCAS project, Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, Sheffield (2014)
Bente Halkier, Communicating conveniencisation of cooking: comparative analysis of how meal box-schemes are framed in four European countries, European Sociological Association, Prague (2015):
Bente Halkier: ‘Post your pizzas, please!’ Convenience food consumption and media food among young Danish consumers, European Sociological Association conference, Prague (2015)
Peter Jackson, Food, convenience and sustainability, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (2015)
Peter Jackson, Geographies of food (keynote), Raum is(s)t Nahrung – geographies of food conference, University of Bayreuth (2015)
Peter Jackson, Food choice and consumer practice, ESRC Food seminar, Newcastle (2015)
Peter Jackson, Angela Meah and Valerie Viehoff, Rethinking ‘convenience’ food, European Sociological Association conference, Prague (2015)
Christine Wenzl, What is convenience food and to whom? Cooking practices in German canteens, Raum is(s)t Nahrung – geographies of food conference, University of Bayreuth (2015)
Christine Wenzl and Jonathan Everts, Places of work or places of eating? Canteens and the everyday practices of work-place food, European Sociological Association conference, Prague (2015)
Bente Halkier, Meal box-schemes: A challenge for the category of convenience food? Nordic Conference on Consumer Culture, Aarhus (2016):
Frej Hertz, Meal-boxes: a new kind of convenience food? Nordic Conference on Consumer Culture, Aarhus (2016)
Bente Halkier, Comparing conveniencisation across four convenient ways of providing for food in everyday life. European Sociological Association, Consumption Research Network, Bologna (2016).
Frej Hertz, How different positions for convenience food coexist. European Sociological Association, Consumption Research Network, Bologna (2016):
Peter Jackson, Behaviour change or consumer practice? Food Standards Agency, Science Summit, London (2016).
Peter Jackson, Angela Meah and Valerie Viehoff, Temporalities of convenience food, Nordic Conference on Consumer Research, Aarhus (2016)
Peter Jackson and Valerie Viehoff, Food, convenience and sustainability, Defra, London (2016)
Angela Meah, Managing family intimacy through everyday food practices, University of Oslo (2016)
Angela Meah, Peter Jackson and Valerie Viehoff, The moralization of convenience food, European Sociological Association, Bologna (2016)
Valerie Viehoff, Peter Jackson and Angela Meah, Temporalities of convenience food consumption, Royal Geographical Society with the IBG, London (2016)