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Delgado, Jayson (2024)

"You Are What You Eat" Negotiating Urban Identity in Multicultural Foodscapes

Bachelor thesis | Urban Studies (BA)

Food studies are an increasingly prominent field of study for studying various socioeconomic processes in the urban environment. This paper explores the sociocultural usage of food studies through the study of foodscapes. Food is not merely a source of sustenance, but can also function as a method of expressing or experiencing a sense of identity. Foodscapes, which concern the manner in which people relate to the food they consume, is thus an important concept for sociocultural food studies. Foodscapes are additionally one of the major factors able to contribute to a distinctly urban sense of identity, but are as of yet understudied. This thesis will explore the relation between a city’s foodscape and the feeling of urban identity through the lens of Rotterdam’s Cape Verdean community, using semi-structured interviews.

Foodscapes, Urban Identity, Cape Verdean Community, Rotterdam

Author

Delgado, Jayson

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Multicultural City

Supervisors

Dr. S. Kersbergen

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en