Technique and Technology in the Kitchen: Comparing Resistance to Municipal Trans

Abstract

This chapter addresses how small businesses resist city regulations by using material things, by making craft knowledge claims about material things, and by letting material things organize their political activity. Chefs successfully resisted a foie gras ban in Chicago, where political resistance shaped the production and use of material things. Bakers successfully resisted a trans fat ban in Philadelphia, where material properties of things structured political resistance. We bring together analytic tools from the sociology of culture and science and technology studies to demonstrate how materiality can be both an instigator and an instrument of legal and political resistance.

Citation

DeSoucey, M. and Schleifer, D. (2010), "Technique and Technology in the Kitchen: Comparing Resistance to Municipal Trans", Sarat, A. (Ed.) Special Issue Interdisciplinary Legal Studies: The Next Generation (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 51), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 185-218. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-4337(2010)0000051010