Social Science Resarch on Food Action Networks in the Alternative Agrifoods Movement

替代农产品运动中食品行动网络的社会科学研究

• 批准号: 0922229
• 负责人: Donald Nonini
• 金额: $ 45.72万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0922229&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Social; Science; Resarch; Food; Action

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5).Anthropologists Dr. Donald M. Nonini and Dr. Dorothy C. Holland (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) will undertake research on food action networks (FANs) and the alternative agrifoods movement in four sites in North Carolina. The researchers seek to investigate multiple aspects of this local manifestation of increasing social concern about food, its production, circulation, and consumption in the United States, at a time of widespread economic challenges and climate change. Topics to be addressed include: (a) the relationship between socio-spatial organization, local governmental and infrastructure resources, social diversity, and FAN participation; (b) the organization and activities of FANs within and across sites; (c) how participants perceive and act upon the moral logics of FANs, particularly in relation to marketplace logics; and (d) the relationship between this movement and sustainable agriculture and community food security movements found elsewhere in United States. The researchers will employ a mix of social science research methods, including ethnographic participant observation, semi-structured interviews, intensive key-informant interviews, text analysis of print and other media, archival research, and social network analysis. This research is important because it will contribute to public and policymaker understanding of alternative agrifoods practices and discourses, which will help to build a more robust and resilient food provision system. The research also will help to develop social science theory that recognizes diversity within social movements and that is able to incorporate micro-level studies of local actors who also are aware of and act in relation to the larger economic and political institutions within which they operate. Funding this research also supports research training of four graduate students.

该奖项由《2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案》（公法 111-5）资助。人类学家 Donald M. Nonini 博士和 Dorothy C. Holland 博士（北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校）将在北卡罗来纳州的四个地点开展食品行动网络 (FAN) 和替代农产品运动的研究。在面临广泛的经济挑战和气候变化之际，研究人员试图调查美国社会对食品及其生产、流通和消费日益关注的当地表现的多个方面。讨论的主题包括： (a) 社会空间组织、地方政府和基础设施资源、社会多样性和 FAN 参与之间的关系； (b) 站点内和站点间 FAN 的组织和活动； (c) 参与者如何看待 FAN 的道德逻辑并采取行动，特别是与市场逻辑相关的道德逻辑； (d) 这一运动与美国其他地方的可持续农业和社区粮食安全运动之间的关系。研究人员将采用多种社会科学研究方法，包括人种学参与观察、半结构化访谈、关键信息密集访谈、印刷品和其他媒体的文本分析、档案研究和社交网络分析。 这项研究很重要，因为它将有助于公众和政策制定者对替代农产品实践和讨论的理解，这将有助于建立一个更加强大和有弹性的粮食供应系统。该研究还将有助于发展社会科学理论，该理论认识到社会运动的多样性，并且能够纳入对当地行动者的微观层面的研究，这些行动者也意识到他们所在的更大的经济和政治机构并采取与他们运作的更大的经济和政治机构相关的行动。资助这项研究还支持四名研究生的研究培训。