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'Teddies' and 'Gollies'; Smart-casual dining

Laurie Taylor analyses the transformation of gourmet restaurant style. Also, 'teddies' and 'gollies' and their role in racialised children's literature.

Smart/casual dining - Once fine dining meant chandeliers, white tablecloths, and suited waiters. Yet today many of us will queue up for a seat at a loud, crowded noodle bar or eagerly seek out street stalls where the burgers are organic. The US food writer, Alison Pearlman, talks to Laurie Taylor about the forms and flavours taken by this 'foodie' revolution. Through on-the-scene observation and interviews with major players and chefs, she explores the blurring of boundaries between high and low cuisine. She's joined by Alan Warde, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester.

'Teddies' and 'Gollies' - US English Professor, Rhoda Zuk, talks to Laurie about her historical study into the place and meaning of teddy bears and golliwogs in children's lives and books, as well as in the 'racist' imagination.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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Rhoda Zuk

Associate Professor, Department of English, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Abstract: Donna Varga, Rhoda ZukÌý
DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12042
The Journal of Popular Culture
Volume 46, Issue 3, pages 647–671, June 2013

Jean Upton

Author and illustrator

Alison Pearlman

Los Angeles-based art historian and cultural critic

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Smart Casual: The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226651401
ISBN-13: 978-0226651408

Alan Warde

Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester

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Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure
Alan Warde, Lydia Martens
Publisher: Cambridge University
ISBN-10: 0521590442
ISBN-13: 978-0521590440

Ethnography Award

Thinking Allowed in association with the British Sociological Association announces a new annual award for a study that has made a significant contribution to ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a culture or sub-culture.

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Are you involved in social science research and completing or will have completed an ethnography this year? The Award is open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution of higher education.

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An entry should be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research project which provides a detailed description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole authored book or peer reviewed research article published during the calendar year of the award will be eligible.

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The judges for the Award are Professor Dick Hobbs, Professor Henrietta Moore, Dr Louise Westmarland, Professor Bev Skeggs. The Chair is Professor Laurie Taylor. (Please do not contact any judges directly).

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