Professor Benedetta Cappellini's Outputs (20)

Happy to chat? Understanding older people’s attitudes and experiences of talking to strangers (2024)
Journal Article
Yen, D. A., Cappellini, B., Jen, M.-Y., & Victor, C. (online). Happy to chat? Understanding older people’s attitudes and experiences of talking to strangers. Ageing & Society, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x24000783

Extant literature shows that small conversations with strangers can help improve individuals’ wellbeing while reducing feelings of loneliness. Nevertheless, previous studies on talking to strangers tend to focus on young participants in controlled ex... Read More about Happy to chat? Understanding older people’s attitudes and experiences of talking to strangers.

Acculturating again: Taiwanese migrants’ enduring COVID-19 coping paradox in the UK (2023)
Journal Article
Yen, D., Cappellini, B., Hendy, J., & Ming-Yao, J. (2024). Acculturating again: Taiwanese migrants’ enduring COVID-19 coping paradox in the UK. International Marketing Review, 41(7), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMR-09-2022-0196

Purpose
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe challenges to ethnic minorities in the UK. While the experiences of migrants are both complex and varied depending on individuals' social class, race, cultural proximity to the host country and accultu... Read More about Acculturating again: Taiwanese migrants’ enduring COVID-19 coping paradox in the UK.

Feeding grandchildren: competing priorities and blurred relational boundaries (2023)
Journal Article
Webster, M., Cappellini, B., & Harman, V. (online). Feeding grandchildren: competing priorities and blurred relational boundaries. Food, Culture & Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2023.2195336

With grandparents providing increasing amounts of childcare, through the lens of food, this paper explores how the provision of regular childcare may be blurring the boundaries of the grandmother role. Drawing on semi-structured, photo elicitation in... Read More about Feeding grandchildren: competing priorities and blurred relational boundaries.

Epistemic in/justice: towards 'Other' ways of knowing (2022)
Journal Article
Hutton, M., & Cappellini, B. (2022). Epistemic in/justice: towards 'Other' ways of knowing. Marketing Theory, 22(2), 155-174. https://doi.org/10.1177/14705931221076563

This paper brings a critical awareness to the interrelations between epistemic injustice and knowledge hierarchies, through an insufficient attention to the Other as epistemically harmed. Because of the dominant empirical and theoretical authority Ot... Read More about Epistemic in/justice: towards 'Other' ways of knowing.

Primary School Children’s Responses to Food waste at School (2022)
Journal Article
Yen, D., Dovey, T., & Cappellini, B. (2022). Primary School Children’s Responses to Food waste at School. British Food Journal, 124(13), 109-125. https://doi.org/10.1108/bfj-06-2021-0608

Purpose: This paper seeks to understand children’s responses to food waste in school by exploring children’s view on food waste and empowering them to discuss and develop their own solutions. Design/methodology/approach: Using creative problem-solvin... Read More about Primary School Children’s Responses to Food waste at School.

Meal for Two: A Typology of Co-performed Practices (2021)
Journal Article
Khanijou, R., Cappellini, B., & Hosany, S. (2021). Meal for Two: A Typology of Co-performed Practices. Journal of Business Research, 134, 675-688. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.05.054

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 a... Read More about Meal for Two: A Typology of Co-performed Practices.

Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture (2021)
Journal Article
Harman, V., Cappellini, B., & Webster, M. (2022). Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture. Sociology, 56(1), 38-54. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211034983

This paper explores the ways in which the intensification of parenting and the notion of children at risk have influenced grandmothers’ narratives and practices. Interviews with grandmothers who regularly look after their grandchildren, reveal that t... Read More about Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture.

Family practices and temporality at breakfast: hot spots, convenience and care (2021)
Journal Article
Pirani, D., Harman, V., & Cappellini, B. (2022). Family practices and temporality at breakfast: hot spots, convenience and care. Sociology, 56(2), 211-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211015563

Drawing on 34 semi-structured interviews, this study investigates the temporality of family practices taking place in the hot spot (Southerton, 2003). It does so by looking at how breakfast is inserted in the economy of family time in Italy. Our data... Read More about Family practices and temporality at breakfast: hot spots, convenience and care.

Coping with Coping: International migrants’ experiences of the Covid-19 lockdown in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Yen, D., Cappellini, B., Yang, H., & Gupta, S. (2021). Coping with Coping: International migrants’ experiences of the Covid-19 lockdown in the UK. British Journal of Management, 32(4), 1219-1241. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12512

Globally, policy makers have overlooked the challenges faced by international migrants in host countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The policies and support systems designed by host governments highlight the lack of social justice and raise concer... Read More about Coping with Coping: International migrants’ experiences of the Covid-19 lockdown in the UK.

Foodwork and Foodcare in Hard Times: Mothering, Value and Values (2021)
Journal Article
Parsons, E., Harman, V., & Cappellini, B. (2024). Foodwork and Foodcare in Hard Times: Mothering, Value and Values. Gender, Work and Organization, 31(3), 937-953. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12630

In this article, we analyze the foodwork of mothers when feeding their families on low and reduced incomes. By exploring their accounts of food shopping and household budgeting, we argue that foodwork is intrinsically linked to other areas of social... Read More about Foodwork and Foodcare in Hard Times: Mothering, Value and Values.

Subjectivities in motion: Dichotomies in consumer engagements with self-tracking technologies (2021)
Journal Article
Zakariah, A., Hosany, S., & Cappellini, B. (2021). Subjectivities in motion: Dichotomies in consumer engagements with self-tracking technologies. Computers in Human Behavior, 118, Article 106699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106699

With the rise of self-tracking technologies (STT), self-quantification has become a popular digital consumption phenomenon. Despite recent academic interests, self-tracking practices remain poorly understood, in particular, little is known on how con... Read More about Subjectivities in motion: Dichotomies in consumer engagements with self-tracking technologies.

Who Really Cares? Introducing an “Ethics of Care” to Debates on Transformative Value Co-creation (2020)
Journal Article
Parsons, E., Kearney, T., Surman, E., Cappellini, B., Moffat, S., Harman, V., & Scheurenbrand, K. (2021). Who Really Cares? Introducing an “Ethics of Care” to Debates on Transformative Value Co-creation. Journal of Business Research, 122, 794-804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.06.058

This paper introduces an “ethics of care” lens to the literature on Transformative Services Research (TSR) to understand how service users and providers co-create transformational value and well-being. In considering six food poverty organizations—ca... Read More about Who Really Cares? Introducing an “Ethics of Care” to Debates on Transformative Value Co-creation.

Intensive mothering in hard times: Foucauldian ethical self-formation and cruel optimism (2019)
Journal Article
Cappellini, B., Harman, V., Marilli, A., & Parsons, E. (2019). Intensive mothering in hard times: Foucauldian ethical self-formation and cruel optimism. Journal of Consumer Culture, 19(4), 469-492. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540519872067

Discourses of intensive mothering now seem to dominate European and American parenting cultures. This is a problem for those mothers who do not currently possess the resources to match up. In a study of Italian and British mothers who are experiencin... Read More about Intensive mothering in hard times: Foucauldian ethical self-formation and cruel optimism.

From West to East: British Sojourners’ acculturation in China (2019)
Journal Article
Yu, Q., Yen, D., Cappellini, B., & Wang, C. (2021). From West to East: British Sojourners’ acculturation in China. International Marketing Review, 38(4), 671-689. https://doi.org/10.1108/imr-12-2018-0362

Purpose: Previous literature has often focused on Asian migrants’ acculturation to Western cultures with data collected in the Western contexts. This study will explore Western consumers’ acculturation to East Asian cultures and their consumption beh... Read More about From West to East: British Sojourners’ acculturation in China.

The Italian breakfast: Mulino Bianco and the advent of a family practice (1975-1995) (2018)
Journal Article
Pirani, D., Cappellini, B., & Harman, V. (2018). The Italian breakfast: Mulino Bianco and the advent of a family practice (1975-1995). European Journal of Marketing, 52(12), 2478-2498. https://doi.org/10.1108/ejm-06-2018-0374

Purpose This paper aims to examine how Mulino Bianco, an iconic Italian bakery brand, has reshaped the symbolic and material aspects of breakfast in Italy, transforming a declining practice into a common family occasion. Design/methodology/approach A... Read More about The Italian breakfast: Mulino Bianco and the advent of a family practice (1975-1995).

Cycling into headwinds: analysing mobility practices that inhibit sustainability (2018)
Journal Article
Scheurendrand, K., Parsons, E., Cappellini, B., & Patterson, A. (2018). Cycling into headwinds: analysing mobility practices that inhibit sustainability. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 37(2), 227-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/0743915618810440

Using the example of cycling, the authors contribute to public policy debates surrounding sustainability. They employ practice theory to shift the debate away from consumer choice and agency to examine instead why sustainable practices are not always... Read More about Cycling into headwinds: analysing mobility practices that inhibit sustainability.

Shouting on Social Media? A borderscapes perspective on a contentious hashtag (2018)
Journal Article
Cappellini, B., Kravets, O., & Reppel, A. (2019). Shouting on Social Media? A borderscapes perspective on a contentious hashtag. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 145, 428-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.016

This article extends the concept of borderscapes to understand the role of hashtags, a social media content sorting device, in organizing public conversations on important social issues. We examine a highly contentious hashtag, shout your abortion, t... Read More about Shouting on Social Media? A borderscapes perspective on a contentious hashtag.

Unpacking the lunchbox: biopedagogies, mothering and social class (2018)
Journal Article
Cappellini, B., & Harman, V. (2018). Unpacking the lunchbox: biopedagogies, mothering and social class. Sociology of Health & Illness, 40(7), 1200-1214. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12751

This study investigates how mothers respond to school surveillance of their children's packed lunches. In a context where increasing attention is focused on healthy eating, we adopt a biopedagogical approach to illustrate different positions and stra... Read More about Unpacking the lunchbox: biopedagogies, mothering and social class.

Right Taste, Wrong Place’: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Middle-class Identity (2015)
Journal Article
Cappellini, B., Parsons, E., & Harman, V. (2015). Right Taste, Wrong Place’: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Middle-class Identity. Sociology, 50(6), 1089-1105. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515593033

This article investigates how culinary taste contributes to the formation of middle class identity in a working class context in the UK. We explore practices of food consumption among a group of individuals working at a UK university located in a wor... Read More about Right Taste, Wrong Place’: Local Food Cultures, (Dis)identification and the Formation of Middle-class Identity.

Mothers on display: lunchboxes, social class and moral accountability (2015)
Journal Article
Harman, V., & Cappellini, B. (2015). Mothers on display: lunchboxes, social class and moral accountability. Sociology, 49(4), 764-781. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514559322

This article explores middle class mothers’ narratives on their daily routines of preparing lunchboxes for their children. In this study lunchboxes are understood as an artefact linking together discourses and practices of doing and displaying mother... Read More about Mothers on display: lunchboxes, social class and moral accountability.