Intercultural household food tensions: a relational dialectics analysis

摘要: Purpose: Recent global migration trends have led to an increased prevalence, and new patterning, of intercultural family configurations. This paper is about couples how they manage tensions associated with change as settle in their cultural context. The focus specifically the role food plays navigating these tensions, effects on couples’ relational cultures. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative relational-dialectic approach taken for studying Polish-Irish couples. Engagement relevant communities provided multiple points access informants. Findings: Intercultural arise jointly transition, consumption represents implicit household’s culture. Such are sometimes resolved, but not, leading enduring tensions. Dialectical movement causes change, which has developmental consequences Research limitations/implications: study shows ways that addressed fundamental formation a identity. Practical implications: Recommendations emphasize importance understanding culture develops creation practices. Marketers can look supporting couple retain tradition, while smoothly Social policy analysts may reflect develop identity rooted each other’s culture, range strategies demonstrate synthesize successfully negotiate challenges face. Originality/value: Dealing simultaneously separately variety dialectical oppositions around food, weave together elements from cultures facilitate both social change. Within relationship, stability-change dialectic experienced negotiated, at relationship’s nexus couple’s ecology, negotiating conventionality-uniqueness enables them reproduce or depart societal conventions, thus