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Our appetite for story means we not only live in, but also crave, a storied world. From dressing to decorating to buying to cooking, we play out daily narratives that tell the bigger story of our lives. Our fascination with telling stories can be explicit or implicit, meaning that as well as literally telling stories, we habitually convey a sense of story from the choices we make as human beings. Externalising inner choices through outer actions, we tell others not just who we are, but what we care about. Our politics can be conveyed not only by our literal engagement with politics, but also by our everyday practices of consumption and performance.
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Batty, C. (2016). You Are What You Eat: Film Narratives and the Transformational Function of Food. In: Bradley, P. (eds) Food, Media and Contemporary Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137463234_3
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