Eating out practices among Swedish youth. Gothenburg Area Foodscapes

Abstract

The aim of this field report is to show how different foodscapes map and intersect in a big city centre in order to get a grip of how youth interact with fast food in their local environment. Or, to somehow formulate the question in a more mundane fashion: my intention with this report have been to qualitatively examine and to theoretically analyze how young people gets access to differing varieties of lunch food depending on the localization of the schools that they go to. Or, to put it in the academic way: my purpose have been to make visible how certain populations of objects and actors are brought together in concrete encounters, these encounters being events whose appearance and constitution differ in quality depending largely on the composition or flow schemas bringing them there, and to comprehend the outcome of these events. Or, just shortly: I have tried to place eating out-habits among young people in a wider societal context in order to see what influences it. Hopefully, there has been meaningful reading for the academic as well as for the layman.