A master thesis from Aalborg University
The search for something 'authentic': Exploring social constructions to the discourse of authentic food: Exploring social constructions to the discourse of authentic food
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Term
4. term
Publication year
2016
Submitted on
2016-06-01
Pages
201 pages
Abstract
Dette kandidatspeciale undersøger eksplorativt forskellige sociale virkeligheder i relation til diskursen autentisk mad. Med udgangspunkt i videnskabelige artikler som empirisk data, indsamlet fra fem fremtrædende og brede videnskabelige databaser, der repræsenterer sociologi og udgivelsesårene fra 1990 til 2016, vil dette kandidatspeciale forsøge at tilnærme sig og definere konceptet og fænomenet autenticitet samt foreslå en forståelse af dette som enten nostalgisk eller innovativ autenticitet. Endvidere, med anvendelsen af en Foucault-inspireret kritisk diskursanalyse på den empiriske data, vil dette kandidatspeciale også kategorisere diskursen autentiske fødevarer ud på diskurserne identitet og mad, lokale mad, national mad samt global mad, der tilsammen udgør forskellige skalaer, hvor forskellige kontekster giver substans og mening til disse forskellige diskurser. Ud fra den empiriske data og den Foucault-inspirerede kritiske diskursanalyse anvendt på denne er diskurserne lokal mad samt global mad udpeget som overordnede diskurser med de stærkeste magtrelationer.
This master thesis explores different social constructions to the discourse of authentic food. More specifically, with point of departure in scientific articles as empirical data, gathered from five prominent and broad scientific databases, representing the angle of social science as well as the publication years of 1990 to 2016, this master thesis conceivably approaches and defines the concept and phenomenon of authenticity, proposing an understanding of authenticity as either nostalgia or innovation. Furthermore, with the appliance of Foucauldian critical discourse analysis to the empirical data, this master thesis also categorize the discourse of authentic food into discourses of identity and food, local food, national food and global food, constituting a discursive framework through which the discourse of authentic food can be explored in different scales where different contexts give substance and meaning to these different discourses. From the empirical data and the Foucauldian critical discourse analysis applied to it, discourses of local food and global food are appointed as superior discourses with the strongest relations of power.
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