Uncovering the special in the everyday
This section refers to maps and mappings of urban collective agency, memory and food fiction, as well as of adaptation and resilience. Through case studies, its chapters explore the role of urban food mapping especially around the everyday as they contribute to urban histories and narratives, identities and customs. They show how participatory and scientific mapping methods combined with a range of approaches, such as ethnographic observation, literature and historical analysis as well as photographic fieldwork, can make concealed connections visible. Past and present challenges can so be understood as future opportunities. Urban food mapping understands food system activities to be made up of everyday practices, performed by individuals and collectives on a local level with repercussions of global reach. Spatialised across our daily work routine, domestic or social life, they often slip from our memory as each day passes. Here, authors map these small connections between individuals, social groups and the local built environment as a product of everyday life.
