Food, belonging and digital public spaces

Researchers from FOOD2GATHER attended the conference Migrant belongings: digital practices and everyday life this year, which took place digitally 21st-23 April. The F2G project investigates the roles that food play in creating public spaces and shaping communication and relations between places and the people who inhabit them. For this conference, we thus organised a panel […]

Food Conviviality and Migrants’ Sustainable Livelihoods in Germany – ICAF Conference, September 2020

In September 25th 2020, the German team participated in the XLI Conference of the International Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (ICAF). Based on our fieldwork in Berlin with our partners REFUEAT and Über den Tellerrand, we explored the role of food and cooking in the articulation of relations between migrants and host communities in Germany. We analyzed how two initiatives by our partners foster food conviviality, and the social and economic relations this encompasses, to create sustainable responses to the unequal relationships that affect the lives of migrants. This post is the text of the presentation.

Foodscapes at ESA 2020

The European Sociological Association’s (ESA) midterm conference for the consumption research network kicked off late August on Zoom, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. FOOD2GATGHER had a designated roundtable to discuss the use of foodscapes in researching migration and public spaces. The roundtable started with some presentations of FOOD2GATHER members (Gun Roos, Laura Terragni and Helene […]

Discussing foodscapes at ESA’s Consumption Conference 2020

The European Sociological Association’s midterm conference for the consumption research network kicked off late August. The conference took place online, at Zoom, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. FOOD2GATGHER had a designated roundtable to discuss the use of foodscapes in researching migration and public spaces. The roundtable started with some presentations of FOOD2GATHER members Gun Roos, […]