Elsevier

Geoforum

Volume 82, June 2017, Pages 204-205
Geoforum

Critical review
On sensing and making sense: Debate title: Better than text? Critical reflections on the practices of visceral methodologies in human geography

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    For example, when using visceral methods to examine the Slow Food (SF) movement in Nova Scotia, Canada and California, US, Hayes-Conroy's method focused on food and food-based settings to explore how “SF guides bodies to be affected by specific foods and environments” (2010: 734). Recently, Sexton et al. (2017) considered innovative non-textual approaches to visceral methods including the use of body mapping to examine how brown women's bodies feel violence (Sweet, 2017), developing the concept of ‘foodsensing’ as a consumer process of sensing and making sense of food (Miele, 2017), and understanding how non-human participants in healthy school meal programs influence children's food practices (Miele, 2017). The visceral method described in this paper builds on current literature by using a visceral approach around food (the preparation and consumption of a traditional cultural meal) as an informative tool to access an unrelated visceral experience (migration to a new country).

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