Food and food work in times of crises: The case of rural South Bohemia

This qualitative research addresses rural development in South Bohemia, Czech Republic, on the backdrop of ongoing political, economic and ecological/climate induced transformations.  Focus is on production, consumption and sharing of food within and across families, and in the local communities studied. The project builds on research that Haukanes conducted in the 1990s and early 2000s. Three distinct, but interlinked areas are investigated:

• Families’ everyday food work: changes and continuities over time. This sub-area focuses on people’s day-to- day food work and its social organization, including practices of subsistence farming.
• The sociality of food: sharing and circulation of food. This sub-area addresses practices of food sharing within families and in the community more broadly.
• Rural development "at large". This sub-area explores policies and discourses of agricultural and rural development.