Intersectionality and food consumption: a roundtable

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Stefan Wahlen University of Giessen, Germany

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Wesley Dean University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Kia Ditlevsen University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Stergios Magkriotis University of Edinburgh, UK

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Vasco Ramos University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Intersectionality is a concept that has received little attention in scholarship on consumption, despite its significant relevance. Marie Plessz and Stefan Wahlen organised a roundtable held at the European Sociological Association (ESA) Consumption research network (RN5) interim meeting, 2 September 2022, in Oslo. This is a summarised and edited transcript of this roundtable discussion. As such, it advances the conceptual lens of intersectionality applied to (food) consumption studies and critically assesses possible future avenues of research that build on existing approaches. It first discusses the role of social and political positions that might be considered intersectionally, to then outline central characteristics as well as empirical strategies when investigating food. This transcript also showcases a possible novel format that is welcomed in the journal Consumption and Society.

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