“Quarentenar”: narrativas sobre as práticas alimentares durante a pandemia de COVID-19

Abstract

The physical distance, as one of the measures to cope with the pandemic of COVID-19 transformed the urban scenario, changing the functioning of ways of living, affecting food practices based on the experience of urban commensality. In this sense, the present research sought to understand how people agencies their food practices in the face of the confinement imposed by the pandemic, being restricted to the domestic environment. . Of qualitative nature, carried out from interviews with twelve adults who reported following the guidelines of physical distance between March 2020 and December 2021 were analyzed the permanences and transformations of food practices and the meanings attributed to eating, food and healthy in the pandemic of COVID-19. Beyond the rearrangements of food practices, the data unveiled reflections on the ways of living and transiting in a domestic daily life, bringing ponderings to the almost univocal affirmation, in the discourses of Health Sciences and common sense, of the home as a promoter of healthy eating practices. Demarcating this way, the complexity around food practices that takes place in a context within which the modern way of life, in its multiplicity of urban commensalities, has invaded the home.