The 3rd Conference on Food and Communication

Attended and presented at the 2023 Food and Communications Conference at Örebro University. The conference theme “Communicating ‘good’ foods” generated constructive discussions on different meanings attributed to ‘good’ food, how ‘good’ food is represented and thoughts on conflicting discourses connected to ideas of ‘good food’. Very interesting!

Below you have some snapshots from the conference. Inspiring talks from Paul Svensson on the empathic meal and Josee Johnston on paradoxes of good food. My own talk highlighted culinary experts in the foodie sphere and experts’ role in communicating ideas of good (and bad) food.

Urban Dirt: Exploring Spatial Dimensions of Market Change

Presented a work-in progress paper at the 2023 Consumer Culture Theory Conference in Lund, Sweden. The presentation was entitled “Urban dirt: Exporing the spatial dimensions of market change.

This study explores the connection between spatial contexts and specific consumption spheres during market change. I explore dimensions of urban dirt as creative/destructive in the spatiality of the city in relation to the introduction of food trucks and the transformation of the Swedish street food market