„Rzuciła pracę w korpo i zajęła się… gotowaniem”. Praca z jedzeniem, nieoczywiste transformacje zawodowe i poszukiwanie alternatywnej relacji ze światem
“She Quit Her Corporate Job and Took Up… Cooking.” Professional Food Work, Unobvious Career Shifts and the Search for an Alternative Relationship with the World

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to a vision of the good life realized in a niche model of professional mobility: resigning from a middle-class profession and changing to the work in craft food production or gastronomy. This model is popularized by culinary media that encourage this type of biographical scenario. The article is based on the in-depth interviews with people in Poland who decided to change their professional career according to the above model. The main problem that the article focuses on is a contradiction between the hegemonic normalization of creativity in relation to one’s own biography, on the one hand, and the perceived alternativeness of this career change with regard to hegemonic ideology, on the other. The analysis is set in the contexts of both the broader shift in the socio-cultural meanings of food and an ideal of blurring the boundaries between leisure and work. The article also refers the sense-making nature of professional food work that is due to the tangibility of its effects as well as to its potential to build a new (resonance-like) relationship with the world.

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