Foodscapes
摘要
‘Foodscape’ is a fusion of food and landscape and represents all food-related processes including production, distribution, and consumption of foodstuffs. While nutrition-related issues can already look back on a long tradition in cultural and social sciences, ‘foodscape’ as a term and analytical framework first made its way into scientific studies in the mid-1990s and was classified as an issue of concern within the concept of ‘food desert’, which was intended to illustrate unequal access to food. Previous studies that address ‘foodscapes’ mostly have a very strong quantitative orientation and are subject to a positivist perspective. This article demonstrates that a comprehensive approach to ‘foodscapes’ can only succeed in the combination of social constructivist and positivist perspectives and that a neopragmatic approach, which, based on Popper’s Three Worlds Theory is excellently suited for this, divides food landscapes into ‘Foodscape 1’, ‘Foodscape 2’, and ‘Foodscape 3’, respectively.