Scientific Tools II - P 9.1 – Project Seminar in Sustainability - The Corona Diaries: Food practices in times of rupture

The Covid-19 pandemic and resulting restrictions regarding different aspects of everyday life (e.g. mobility, eating out) have radically altered what and how much people consume. Food practices in particular have changed dramatically, including a sharp rise in home cooking and eating and related shifts in food shopping and storage. This seminar provides participants with opportunities to record and analyse their own food practices and those of other household members (if present), complemented by intensive engagement with social scientific literature on the (sustainability) impacts of ruptures in routine practices. In particular, participants will be asked to reflect critically on the social, economic and ecological implications of newly adopted or ‘resurrected’ food practices and their potential future impacts. Overall, the seminar combines an in-depth literature review with intensive methods training across the qualitative-quantitative divide (e.g. autoethnography, collection of diary data and qualitative interviews).