Doctoral Dissertation Research: Food Sovereignty and Social Justice in Post-Katrina New Orleans

博士论文研究：卡特里娜飓风过后新奥尔良的粮食主权和社会正义

• 批准号: 1129728
• 负责人: Hilda Kurtz
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1129728&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Food; Sovereignty

This doctoral dissertation research will examine how marginalized communities perceive and assert their rights over access to adequate food in the city of New Orleans. Racial and economic disparities in access to nutritious food have become prominent concerns in U.S. cities, including New Orleans, especially after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina exposed the city's pervasive racial and class inequalities. Despite greater attention to these inequalities, low-income residents of New Orleans continue to struggle to obtain sufficient fresh food, and the impacts of racism are pronounced. Movements that are concerned about disparities in access to food have combined with those interested in working toward a food system that is environmentally sustainable and transparent, and from this has emerged a "food sovereignty" movement that is activist and democratically controlled. This project will examine food sovereignty activism in the city of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina and how it is perceived and understood by both community members and activists. The theoretical basis of this research is a combination of urban geography, critical race studies, and agro-food studies and the project will examine how food activism both constructs and contests race in an urban context. The methods used in this project include interviews, participant observation, and focus groups. The research will situate food sovereignty activism in New Orleans within a broader national context to better understand how ideologies of justice and racial equality within the food system are translated, interpreted, and enacted at the local level within New Orleans.This project will draw crucial linkages between theories of urban space, racial and socioeconomic disparities, and the food system. Additionally, this study will add to the growing body of research on post-Katrina New Orleans Findings from the research in New Orleans will offer insight into the potential for racially-sensitive food activism in other U.S. cities. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.

本博士论文研究将研究边缘化社区如何感知和维护他们在新奥尔良市获得充足食物的权利。在获得营养食品方面的种族和经济差异已成为包括新奥尔良在内的美国城市的突出问题，特别是在卡特里娜飓风造成的破坏暴露出该市普遍存在的种族和阶级不平等之后。尽管对这些不平等给予了更多的关注，但新奥尔良的低收入居民仍然难以获得足够的新鲜食物，种族主义的影响也很明显。关注食物获取不均的运动与那些对环境可持续和透明的食物系统感兴趣的运动结合在一起，由此产生了一种积极和民主控制的“食物主权”运动。本项目将考察自卡特里娜飓风以来新奥尔良市的粮食主权活动，以及社区成员和活动人士如何看待和理解粮食主权活动。这项研究的理论基础是城市地理学、批判性种族研究和农业食品研究的结合，该项目将研究食物行动主义如何在城市背景下构建和竞争种族。在这个项目中使用的方法包括访谈，参与观察和焦点小组。该研究将把新奥尔良的粮食主权行动主义置于更广泛的国家背景下，以更好地理解食物系统内的正义和种族平等的意识形态是如何在新奥尔良的地方层面上被翻译、解释和颁布的。这个项目将在城市空间理论、种族和社会经济差异以及粮食系统之间建立重要的联系。此外，这项研究将增加对卡特里娜飓风后新奥尔良的研究，新奥尔良研究的结果将为美国其他城市种族敏感食品激进主义的潜力提供见解。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项将为有前途的学生提供支持，使他们能够建立强大的独立研究事业。