Jackson, Peter
(2016).
Manufacturing meaning along the food commodity chain.
[Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex:
UK Data Archive.
10.5255/UKDA-SN-852344
Data description (abstract)
This data collection consists of life stories, individual interview transcripts and one focus group.
Recent ‘food scares’ and farming crises have led to declining consumer confidence in food safety. Focusing on two commodities, chicken and sugar, this project has investigated the social, political and technological changes that have transformed the British food industry within living memory. It uses a life-history approach (supplemented by interviews with policy-makers and consumer focus groups), recording the personal testimony of people involved at every point along the supply chain ‘from farm to fork’. Faced with the need to restore consumer trust, we argue that food producers are involved in managing the shifting cultural meanings of food as much as they are concerned with the commercial imperatives of technological change, product innovation and profitability. Questions of memory and tradition, gender and generation, authenticity and provenance (referred to here as the process of ‘manufacturing meaning’) are therefore assuming greater economic significance for the retail trade.
| Data creators: |
| Creator Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Jackson Peter |
University of Sheffield |
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| Contributors: |
| Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Russel Polly |
University of Sheffield |
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| Sponsors: |
Economic and Social Research Council, AHRC
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| Grant reference: |
RES-143-25-0026
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| Topic classification: |
History
Economics
Society and culture
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| Keywords: |
commodities, food, chickens, oral history
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| Project title: |
Manufacturing meaning along the food commodity chain
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| Grant holders: |
Professor Peter Jackson, Professor Neil Ward, Dr. R. Perks
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| Project dates: |
| From | To |
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| 1 March 2003 | 30 April 2007 |
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| Date published: |
08 Jun 2016 13:24
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| Last modified: |
08 Jun 2016 13:24
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| Collection period: |
| Date from: | Date to: |
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| 1 March 2003 | 30 April 2007 |
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| Geographical area: |
London, Dorset |
| Country: |
United Kingdom |
| Data collection method: |
Life history interviews; Interviews with policy makers; Consumer focus groups and interviews with 20 food industry professionals (relevant industry professionals working in poultry and sugar industries) and 1 focus group; 16 interviews took place in London and 2 interviews took place in Dorset. |
| Observation unit: |
Group, Individual |
| Kind of data: |
Text |
| Type of data: |
Qualitative and mixed methods data |
| Resource language: |
English |
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| Data sourcing, processing and preparation: |
The data collected is derived, in part, from an oral history collection held at the British Library Sound Archive as part of a project titled 'Food: From Source to Salespoint.' The original sound recordings from which the transcripts and summaries were derived are held at the British Library Sound Archive.
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| Rights owners: |
| Name |
Affiliation |
ORCID (as URL) |
| Jackson Peter |
University of Sheffield |
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| Ward Neil |
University of Leeds |
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| Perks Rob |
The British Library |
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| Contact: |
| Name | Email | Affiliation | ORCID (as URL) |
|---|
| Jackson, Peter | p.a.jackson@sheffield.ac.uk | University of Sheffield | Unspecified |
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| Publisher: |
UK Data Archive
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| Last modified: |
08 Jun 2016 13:24
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