Dr. Rachel Reckinger
Sociologist and Anthropologist
PI of Sustainable Food Practices ( and Member of several other Research Projects food.uni.lu)
Member of the Multidisciplinary Area of Research on Sustainability (MARS)
Scientific Coordination of two Interdisciplinary Research Projects ( and ) at the University of Luxembourg IDENTIDENT2
Free-Lance Sensory Analyst
Research Areas
Food Studies
Food Production, Retail and Governance
Everyday Food Consumption Cultures
Sustainable Development and Social Justice
Practices and Reflexivity
Governmentality and Policy Gaps
Food Literacy
Identity and Gender Issues
Scientific Approach
My empirical research interest evolves in a praxeological and social-constructivist framework. It focuses on everyday, processual dynamics of (morally motivated) attributions and (ethically realized) appropriations in a dialectic of power constructions and constitutions of meaning – within Luxembourg’s food sector. The interaction between norms (e.g. from politics and expertise) on the one hand, and collective and individual identifications on the other, play a key role in the analysis of these permanently renegotiated discrepancies. I am interested in how these learning and negotiation process operate, by which constraints and values – and generally by which cultural and social dynamics – they are governed and how they could be organized more effectively and sustainably through motive alliances. In general, I use these approaches to research the transition(s) to a low carbon post-growth society.
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