Agnese Bankovska
Agnese Bankovska is a Doctoral Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. In the year 2013 she accomplished her graduate studies at the Riga Stradins University with the research on food habits in families with small children. A focus of her current doctoral project is an alternative food movement of 'tiešā pirkšana' (direct buying), which is a representation of social, economic and political change in Latvia today. She follows these changes on a small and big scale through the intimacies of families' everyday food practices.