Identifikations- und Identifizierungsprozesse

in Wille, Christian; Reckinger, Rachel; Kmec, Sonja (Eds.) et al Räume und Identitäten in Grenzräumen. Politiken – Medien – Subjekte (2014)

Zur Untersuchung von Raum- und Identitätskonstruktionen in Grenzregionen

in Wille, Christian; Reckinger, Rachel; Kmec, Sonja (Eds.) et al Räume und Identitäten in Grenzregionen. Politiken – Medien – Subjekte (2014)

Implicit Competence and Responsibility in Everyday Practices of Sustainable Food Choices

Scientific Conference (2013, September)

The aim of this paper is to analyse everyday appropriations of ‘responsible’ eating habits – seen as a set of plural ways of how people put into practice plural ideas of sustainability. In order not to ... [more ▼]

The aim of this paper is to analyse everyday appropriations of ‘responsible’ eating habits – seen as a set of plural ways of how people put into practice plural ideas of sustainability. In order not to pre-empt normative or socially desirable results, but to find out if the motor for ‘responsible’ consumption is driven by personal, social, ecological, geopolitical or political motivations, the notion of sustainability is not addressed directly in my empirical surveys. It is rather characterised, in a first stage, by quantitative indicators of possible sustainability in the food domain. These indicators are related either to the consumed foods themselves such as organic, fair trade, regional, seasonal, etc. or to the individual practices, namely the array of places where people procure different food stuffs – commercial ones ranging from hard discounters, supermarkets, etc. to more specific ones (groceries, delicatessens, retailers, box subscription scheme, etc.) and non-commercial ones (common, own garden, exchange barter, etc.). This survey (N = 3000), situated in Luxembourg and the surrounding Greater Region, is completed, in a second stage, by 50 qualitative, semi-directive interviews, which provide in-depth insights into the meanings of, and values behind, those indicators. What is of interest here are the everyday priorities, criteria, appropriations and strategies of consumption, as well as the justifications of this consumption in a perspective of regional/spatial identification. This approach not only shows which aspects of the polysemic idea of sustainability are relevant to people’s preoccupations (shaped by their everyday constraints and, in turn, shaping selective purchases), but uncovers to what extent people are reflexive in their ‘responsible’ food choices and in which ways, as well as for which reasons, consumers engage in the political domain of food issues. [less ▲]

Wege zur vinophilen Kennerschaft. Die Verschränkung von Normen und deren Aneignungen beim Weinkonsum

in Mitteilungen (2013), (N° 20), 18-22

Présentation de l’ouvrage Parler Vin. Entre Normes et Appropriations

Speeches/Talks (2012)

Paths to wine connoisseurship. Inter-relations of public norms and domestic appropriations within wine consumption

Scientific Conference (2012, September)

Contribution : Wine consumption is becoming ever more culturalised and reflexive. I propose a micro-sociological approach to contemporary œnophile discursive practices, in Luxembourg, by concentrating on ... [more ▼]

Contribution : Wine consumption is becoming ever more culturalised and reflexive. I propose a micro-sociological approach to contemporary œnophile discursive practices, in Luxembourg, by concentrating on their inherent normativity (moral and aesthetic) and ordinary appropriation (ethical and hedonistic). The empirical context for this articulation are wine tasting lessons ‘for beginners’, which convey a specific type of normativity. The publics of this institution – mainly male and affluent – have both ‘operational’ and ‘hedonistic’ motivations. Appropriations of the œnophile normativity are reactive – either positively or negatively : interviewees adopt tactical usages of specific dispositions and of tactical courses of action, related to vertical differenciations (social trajectory and position), but mainly to horizontal ones (milieus, interactions and experiments carried out through various projects of subjectivation). These dispositions and tactics are linked to the domestic œnophile logics of action – which are active and strategic. Contrasting with the œnophile normativity (focusing on wine), ordinary discursive practices relate to preoccupations with one’s personal and social life, rather than to wine. Nonetheless, it is the aesthetic-based œnophile canonisation that contains essential prerequisites of subjectivation, even if it is appropriated in a hedonistic, socio- or egocentric way. This shows the consubstantial and flexible interweaving of norms and pleasure, leading to a personal and social empowerment (with a potential that is mainly ethical, but also distinctive), via one particular food item. Theoretical framework : Foucault (discursive practices, governmentality, ethics/morals), Carré (motivations), Bourdieu (dispositions, distinction), De Certeau (strategy/tactics) and Dubet (logics of action). Methodology : Grounded theory (Strauss/Glaser), in-depth interviews and participant observation. [less ▲]

Projektpräsentation IDENT2 – Regionalisierungen als Identitätskonstruktionen in Grenzräumen

Presentation (2012, July)

Regionalisation processes as practices of borderisation

E-print/Working paper (2012)

Judd mat Gaardebounen & Co. – les cuisines de terroir

in Kmec, Sonja; Péporté, Pit (Eds.) Lieux de mémoire au Luxembourg (2012)

Auswertung der Selbstevaluation des IDENT-Projekts (2007-2010)

Presentation (2011, October)