Interests

I am a discourse analyst interested in cultural and social issues at the intersection of food, lifestyle and politics in the media and popular culture. From Britain and in particular Scotland, to the regions of former Yugoslavia in socialism an post-socialism, my research unveils through discourse analysis how we understand our society and how we think about ourselves, others and the world around us.

My excursion into the history of food television was prompted by curiosity around (poorly researched) origins of the contemporary food television and ways in which early television has shaped food culture in the post-war decades of big political, economic and cultural changes in Europe. TV food programming in the decades after the Second World War lays foundations for the explosion in lifestyle television of the 1990s and early 2000s. Researching it demonstrates that many trends and practices we see on TV today have started then, especially as food is one of the earliest themes to feature on many televisions across Europe.