Tena Mensa, Júlia (2023) A study of the role of time in food provision practices. Master thesis.
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Abstract
In order to live within the planetary boundaries while providing for everyone's basic needs, new economic systems are being built in response to the current social, economic, and environmental issues. These new economic systems research use more holistic approaches to acknowledge the economic, political and social impacts of new policies. For instance, it is asserted that working less hours will improve health and wellbeing by increasing time availability. This policy also addresses issues of overproduction and overconsumption within the Global North considering the time spent at work. Within this master thesis I investigate role of time in daily practices, using food provision practices as an example. This demonstrates the initial steps in gaining a better understanding the role of time, daily practices, and any potential connections to health and wellbeing. Using practice theory and in-depth interviews, this study finds that food provision practices need to be considered together in order to account for the importance of the role of time. This impacts on food provision practices as an organisational factor and as a resource to perform food practices. As a result, this study contributes to our understanding of food provision behaviours as a whole, rather than as discrete practices, and it frames how they can be investigated to further explore how people perceive health and wellbeing. Finally, this research provides new recommendations in how to improve working conditions related to time using more holistic approaches.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Population Studies |
| Supervisor: | Adaawen, S.A. |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Sep 2023 10:15 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Sep 2023 10:15 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4379 |
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