Abstract
In every city, everyday, people eat. Eating is the primitive biological practice with bigger sociological interconnections and always bounded to territories, practices, cultural scapes. The production and reproduction of the city’s dynamics can be read through its foodscapes - the complex relation between people, food and place. This paper reflects on the ongoing research on urban foodscapes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and points to the possibility of reading urban invisibilities (imaginaries) and visibilities (practices) that tie city’s underlying processes, through food in space. The empirical research is ongoing, focusing on three complex and contrasting areas of the city - a group of favelas in the North part of the city (Maré complex); a quilombola community in the West part of the city (Cafundá Astrogilda) and the formal and most expensive square meter of the city, in the South part of the city (Leblon). Some reflections on the previous results are presented.
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URBAN FOODSCAPES, URBAN IMAGINARIES, RIO DE JANEIRO, SITOPIA, LEFEBVRE
