Within the social sciences there has been an increased interest in the senses. Much of this
work has focused on ethnographic methods and has concentrated on research about the …

Making and consuming food are evident aspects in migrants' construction and reproduction
of memory, identity and belonging. Food consumption can also enable migrants to make …

Recent scholarship in the sociological subfields of culture and immigration offers several
promising directions for studying how people experience the world in embodied ways and …

By analysing sensorial aspects of social memory and emotions, this paper theorizes the
social significance of olfaction and other senses towards reconfigurations of self and social …

Increasingly, there exists work that shows a strong and intimate entanglement between
emotions, memory, food and the senses. Relevant cultural anthropological and sociological …

This paper examines the relationship between obesity, knowledge and education in a South
Australian community setting. In public health circles and public understandings it is …

This chapter highlights how sugar as chemical substance and sweetness as relational
experience are intimately, and at times uneasily, linked in the lives and lounge-rooms of our …

In 2003, 38 immigrant women were interviewed about sewing and contributed sewn items to
an exhibition at the Migration Museum, South Australia. Secondary analysis of the interviews …

Through everyday activities, often performed by women, a version of family becomes reified
for its members. Family discourse, linked to cultural capital via family capital, creates …

After severe illness, there are stories: narrative strands to suture discontinuities of identities,
practices, and lives. But within these narratives of illness and recovery, the body's …