Exploring children's foodscapes
Journal article, 2013

In this article, we discuss children’s becoming as food consumers in the intersection of various foodscapes. We draw from a project, Children as co-researchers of foodscapes, where we have been working with children as co-researchers, using basically ethnographic methods, and as co-designers in a collaborative design effort. This article focuses on the findings from a theoretically inspired perspective, using the concept of foodscapes. These are food-related structures of different kinds, which evolve as the child explores them and where children as food consumers are generated. In this article, we highlight the scapes of taste, routines, people, things, commerce, child (as opposed to adult) and health and give brief accounts of the way the children related to them. Finally, we turn to the benefits of working with foodscapes for a better understanding of children’s becoming as food consumers in the intersection of various foodscapes. This article is based on data gathered by the children, but also on our fieldwork notes and observations following the children in their foodscapes.

eating

foodscape

becoming

children

health

food

Author

Helene Brembeck

University of Gothenburg

Barbro Johansson

University of Gothenburg

Kerstin Bergström

University of Gothenburg

Pontus Wallgren

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Design and Human Factors

Sandra Hillén

University of Gothenburg

Lena Jonsson

University of Gothenburg

MariAnne Karlsson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Design and Human Factors

Eva Ossiansson

University of Gothenburg

Helena Shanahan

University of Gothenburg

Childrens Geographies

1473-3285 (ISSN)

Vol. 11 1 74-88

Subject Categories

Ethnology

Educational Sciences

DOI

10.1080/14733285.2013.743282

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Created

10/7/2017