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Meal for two: a typology of co-performed practices

  • Ratna Khanijou
    ,
  • Benedetta Cappellini
    ,
  • Sameer Hosany
  • Durham University
    ,
  • Royal Holloway University of London
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Abstract

Drawing on practice theory, this ethnographic study investigates how meal practices are co-performed by 13 newly cohabiting couples. Findings reveal how practices previously performed by individual consumers become co-performed through a synergetic and chronologically multi-phased process. Disruption, the first phase, is characterised by misalignments of individually performed practices and their elements. The second phase, incorporation, is characterised by initial collective re-alignments of practices and their elements. The third phase, synergetic outcomes, shows three different ways in which alignments can shape a co-performed practice, namely blending, combining and domineering. Theoretically this paper offers two contributions to practice theory and domestic meal consumption. It reveals the synergetic process through which meal practices become co-performed over time and provides a typology of co-performed practices.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 675-688 (14 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Journal of Business Research (Volume 134)

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 27/05/2021
  • Published - 19/06/2021

Publication status

Published - 19/06/2021

ISSN

0148-2963

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/625269
  • Scopus: 85109179732

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