doctoral project
Nutritional responsibility in the area of conflict between society and the individual.
Topic/content
Meat is one of the main drivers of growth in nutrition and food production. For this reason, a predominantly vegetarian diet is considered by researchers to be an effective approach to counteracting problems caused by food production. Calls to adapt individual consumption practices are often the result of such assessments and entail explicit or implicit attributions of responsibility. This dissertation examines from a nutritional biographical perspective how individuals from different social milieus and with different nutritional practices experience these processes of responsibilisation. The focus here is on the question of where and what opportunities and obstacles pass in terms of a socio-ecological transformation in different milieus.
Curriculum Vitae
Academic and professional qualifications
2015: M. Sc. International Business - Reykjavik University, Iceland
2012: BBA - Dutch University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012: B.A. Business Administration - Hessian BA
2011: Professional qualification: Shipping Clerk
Research activities
Active participation as researcher in the following projects:
01/2023-07/2023: Research project: "Eye-tracking studies in the field of nutrition economics and sociology"
01/2018 - 12/2022: Research project: "Food of the future - Nutrition 2030"
08/2020-12/2021: BMBF research project: "Meat Knowledge"
07/2020-07/2021: Research project: "Effects of sensitisation in the discussion about meat as food"
04/2019-06/2020 and 11/2020-04/2021: Coordinator of the Regional Innovation Centre for Health and Quality of Life Fulda
08/2018-07/2019: Research project: "Nutritional poverty in old age"
Publications (examples)
Rückert-John, J., Ruppenthal, Tonia. & Schweers, Nils. (2023). Meat renunciation as a question of the young generation? Hirschfelder et al. Meat knowledge - on the reification of the living. Production, consumption and social discourses. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag (forthcoming).
Werking, Röckert, Schweers, Ruppenthal. & Rückert-John. (2021). Nutrition in Corona times - A literature review. Yearbook of Culinary Studies 3, 221-245.
Schweers, N. (2021). Packaging vegan meat substitutes. FleischRegion Westerwald, accompanying volume to the special exhibition, 14-15.
Presentations (examples)
Section Conference of the Section of Rural, Agricultural and Nutritional Sociology of the German Sociological Association: "Taking stock of current research in the sociology of land, agriculture and nutrition" Lecture title: "Vegan and vegetarian nutritional practices - biographical localisations and conflict potentials" (10/2023)
ELVe Annual Conference: "Sustainable (nutrition) supply - between tradition and transformation" Lecture title: "Vegetable nutritional practices - in the tension between tradition and transformation?" (10/2023)
Conference: "Fleischwissen" - Zur Verdinglichung des Lebendigen in globalisierten Märkten Lecture title: "Vegetabiles Fleisch: Semantische und biografische Verortungen." (07/2021)
Symposium: "Das Schlachthaus und die moderne Gesellschaft - eine problematische Beziehung" Lecture title: "Man reißt den Tauben die Köpfe ab" - Veränderungen von Schlachtsemantiken in Kochbüchern von 1850 bis in die Gegenwart." (01/2021)
Online forum of the Nutrition Culture Network (Esskult.net) "Opportunities and challenges for sustainable everyday nutrition and eating habits during the crisis" Lecture title: "Everyday nutrition and shopping organisation in private households during the coronavirus pandemic" (01/2021)
3. Regional Innovation Conference of the Regional Innovation Centre for Health and Quality of Life Fulda Lecture title: "Smarter Acker, smarte Küche - Wie die Digitalisierung unsere Ernährungsweise beeinflusst" (11/2020)
40th Congress of the German Sociological Association "Gesellschaften unter Spannung" Lecture title: "Flaschensammeln für Bio-Bannen - Einblicke in den Ernährungsalltager älterer Menschen mit geringen finanziellen Ressourcen" (09/2020)
