Fieldwork Topics - (2000)

Food

discourses
food and the miljø discourses

do greens cook differently? do they eat differently? does discourse participation have social effects - exchange/sharing? (see Bente Halkier Ph.D.)

junkfood as a counterdiscourse?

mad som politisk identification
spiser racister pizza eller shawarma?

institutional food issues
school meals - practice and meaning
Sundhedsstyrelsen has an initiative here. Interest both in food served at school and what is brought from home.

madordninger
f.eks i kollegium - samordning af tidspunkter, preferencer - praksis eller kreativitet?

gender and institutional eating
comparative studies of canteens - e.g. male canteen at Kødbyen (butchers) vs a predominantly female canteen (postarbejdere)

madordninger og aktivering
Mange lokale kantiner køres med arbejdkraft fra aktiveringsordninger. Det kan betyde, at de der laver og serverer mad har helt andre madkulturer (er indvandre eller blot ung uden erfaring med dansk mad)

restaurants
restaurant 'culture' - Spradley, Barthes or Bourdieu

restaurant communication
kogekoner og kokker

mad ud af huset som kulturel performance - regler, praksis, selvpresentation
categories, structures and communication

what defines the edible?
food preferences and taboos - by age, gender, context

presenting 'new' foods
to customers
ved Grøn Torvet osv
to family members

food disposal
leftovers vs garbage - evt Whorfian perspective - 'empty drums'

social life of a product (Appadurai,Kopytoff) - chains of social contexts
fish from boat to plate, veggies from farm to distributor to market

animal to edible - the culture of transformation

ethnicity
ethnic fast-food as ethnic communication

ethnic fast-food as ethnic business

families and meals
how do family meal practices change?

family meals from different positions