The white worker’s hotdog and the not-so-white worker’s falafel: food-based public art and urban redevelopment in a changing society

Figures & data

Figure 1. Left, a map of the municipality of Gothenburg, with the island of Hisingen to the north and the neighbourhood of Kvillebäcken marked in pink. Right, a map of Kvillebäcken is marked with the intended locations of the two monuments.

Figure 2. A typical fast-food stand in modern Gothenburg, Sweden, selling both hot dogs and burgers, and falafel and kebab. Photo by the author, January 2022.

Figure 3. Overview of the processes and texts examined.

Figure 4. Jesper Hallén’s original design of the halv special monument, posted on Facebook in 2019. Reproduced with Hallén’s permission.

Figure 5. The original photo of Nazih Elsheikali posing with the falafel (Askerup 2014, 9), and Roozbeh Behtaji imitating the pose (Moberg 2021). Reproduced with permission of the photographers, Stefan Edetoft and Per Wahlberg.

Table 1. Distribution of differentiating and enregistering resources used in the commentary on the two proposals.

Resource for differentiation and enregisterment	Halv special	Falafel
Dialect	Yes	No
Accent	No	Yes
Wordplay	Yes	No
Renaming	No	Yes
Wit	Yes	No
Sarcasm	No	Yes
Gendering	Yes	No
Racialization	No	Yes

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