Peter Rothe
Geographies of Edibility: A spatial analysis of the sociopolitical, materialist, and individual determinants of the edibility of (vegan) foods.
Peter Rothe has been doing his doctorate at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at TU Dresden since March 2025.
Motivation
The production, distribution and consumption patterns of human food have an enormous impact on the functioning of the planet and human societies. One of the oldest and strongest counter-proposals to the current model of mass killing and exploitation of animals is veganism. Over the last few decades, various disciplines have developed an intensive interest in this phenomenon. Nevertheless, a comprehensive and in-depth spatial examination of the topic is still largely lacking. The intention of this study is to expand precisely this spatial view of the functioning of veganism on both the systemic and the individual level.
Research objective
The research project aims to investigate the influence of the use of digital media on the perception of the edibility of vegan food in more detail and to work out the resulting individual consequences for the spatial organization of everyday practices. The methods used for the project are interviews and multimodal analyses of digital platforms. The spatial dimension "place" and related concepts as well as the use and extension of the concept of territorialization conceptualized by Terra-R to the everyday subjectivation under investigation serve as a theoretical basis.
Current publications by Peter Rothe can be found on Research Gate.