Food, passion and marginalised young people : technologies of the self in Jamie's kitchen Kelly, Peter 2009, Food, passion and marginalised young people : technologies of the self in Jamie's kitchen, in TASA 2009 : Proceedings of the Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association 2009 : The future of sociology, TASA, Canberra, A. C. T., pp. 1-12. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads kelly-foodpassion-2009.pdf Published version application/pdf 154.39KB 287 Title Food, passion and marginalised young people : technologies of the self in Jamie's kitchen Author(s) Kelly, Peter Conference name Australian Sociological Association. Conference (2009 : Canberra, A.C.T) Conference location Canberra, A.C.T Conference dates 1 - 4 Dec. 2009 Title of proceedings TASA 2009 : Proceedings of the Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association 2009 : The future of sociology Editor(s) Lockie, Stewart Bissell, David Greig, Alistair Hynes, Maria Marsh, David Saha, Larry Sikora, Joanna Woodman, Dan Publication date 2009 Conference series Australian Sociological Association Conference Start page 1 End page 12 Total pages 12 Publisher TASA Place of publication Canberra, A. C. T. Keyword(s) Jamie’s Kitchen Marginalised Young People Foucault Food Passion Technologies of the Self Summary A passion for food that is understood in certain ways – slow, organic, not industrialised – plays a central role in the drama of the successful and popular Jamie’s Kitchen (2002) and Jamie’s Kitchen Australia (2006). Large parts of the drama in these shows revolve around an apparent lack of passion that is displayed by the marginalised, unemployed young people that are the central characters in this story. In this paper I examine the ways in which these accounts of food, passion, and the training of marginalised young people expose some of the challenges and opportunities faced by marginalised young people as they seek to transition into the uncertain and risky labour markets of 21st century capitalism. I argue that Michel Foucault’s (1988) concept of technologies of the self enables us to understand passion, and its particular manifestations in Jamie’s Kitchen, and in the training of marginalised young people, as a powerful technology of self transformation. The drama of Jamie’s Kitchen suggests that as a technology of the self passion for food promises to provide precarious, possibly temporary, forms of salvation, meaning and purpose for the young people engaged in the Fifteen Foundation’s social enterprise transitional labour market program. Notes Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner. ISBN 9780646525013 Language eng Field of Research 160805 Social Change Socio Economic Objective 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed HERDC collection year 2009 Copyright notice ©2009, The Author Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30039919 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 04 Nov 2011, 08:33:38 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2011, 08:38:55 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2011, 08:41:11 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2011, 12:39:45 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2011, 12:46:44 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2011, 12:47:33 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2011, 12:56:22 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2011, 12:58:12 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2011, 13:08:51 EST Wed, 16 Nov 2011, 08:36:26 EST Wed, 16 Nov 2011, 10:57:56 EST Thu, 17 Nov 2011, 08:28:09 EST Mon, 21 Nov 2011, 13:47:45 EST Mon, 21 Nov 2011, 15:05:55 EST Fri, 16 Mar 2012, 19:08:35 EST Fri, 22 Aug 2014, 15:12:56 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 10:53:51 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 15:33:43 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 238 Abstract Views, 288 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 04 Nov 2011, 08:33:18 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas