Social Geography Discussions www.soc-geogr-discuss.net 1816-1499 1816-1502 6 1 2010 10.5194/sgd-6-51-2010 http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/6/51/2010/ http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/6/51/2010/sgd-6-51-2010.html http://www.soc-geogr-discuss.net/6/51/2010/sgd-6-51-2010.pdf 51 74 2010-08-04 Families and food: beyond the "cultural turn"? P. Jackson p.a.jackson@sheffield.ac.uk Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK This paper provides some personal reflections on the "cultural turn" in human geography including a tentative chronology of events. It outlines some of the characteristics of the "cultural turn" and some of the criticisms that have been levelled against it. In the body of the paper, I attempt to assess the value of the "cultural turn", conceptually and methodologically, as applied to two recent research projects on the geography of food and families. 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