Doctoral Dissertation Research: Urban Homesteading: Changing Social and Economic Relations and the Practice of Self-Provisioning in the City.

博士论文研究：城市宅基地：不断变化的社会经济关系和城市自我供给的实践。

• 批准号: 1234241
• 负责人: Deborah Martin
• 金额: $ 1.16万
• 依托单位: Clark University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1234241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Urban; Homesteading

This doctoral dissertation project examines the social and economic relations that develop around urban self-provisioning practices. In recent year self-provisioning practices such as home-based small-scale agriculture have exhibited visible growth in U.S cities. Local municipal governments across the country have been refashioning land-use, zoning, and food safety policies accordingly, as a means of encouraging urban sustainability. Self-provisioning is especially prevalent among urban homesteaders who are reclaiming domestic agrarian skills such as food-oriented gardening, food preservation, and the keeping of poultry, to foster household and community resilience. Despite the current rise of self-provisioning practices in the U.S. and the popularity of urban homesteading, little research has sought to fully explain why these practices are on the rise, who is practicing them, and how they affect dynamics of gender, race, and class in social and economic relations within urban environments, including the home and household. Through an integration of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and surveys of urban homesteaders in the Boston area, this doctoral dissertation research project aims to answer the following questions: (1) What is the nature of self-provisioning among urban homesteaders in the Boston area? (2) What kinds of social and economic relations are self-provisioning practices embedded in and enabled by? (3) What are the impacts of self-provisioning on social and economic relations across various urban scales? Working with the urban homesteaders' league and other community organizations committed to urban sustainability and food justice, this project samples a wide range of individuals and self-provisioning practices occurring in different kinds of spaces (homes, community gardens, places of worship), each with particular legal, social, economic, and environmental constraints, including property values, industrial toxins, zoning, and food safety laws. The research contributes to human-environment geography by asking what new relationships with nature self-provisioning creates, and contributes to economic geography by considering how these activities contribute to the diversification of local economies. It also makes more specific contributions to feminist geographic research on domestic labor and social reproduction by examining the ways in which urban homesteading expands and reworks the gender relations of work in the home. Findings from this research will be of interest to policy makers as they consider the quality of life, economic resilience, gender equity, and social justice dimensions of urban agriculture and sustainability. The research will produce an everyday account of what urban sustainability means in practice, in terms of urban homesteaders? lived experiences, spatial practices, and attitudes. Research findings will be shared with participants and local policy makers through public talks, community forums, and an interactive website. The research will also identify possible policy changes in land use, zoning, and food safety laws that will benefit urban residents engaged in a variety of urban homesteading practices. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this project will provide support that will enable a promising graduate student to establish an independent research career.

该博士学位论文项目研究了围绕城市自我保护实践发展的社会和经济关系。 近年来，诸如家庭小型农业等自我保护实践在美国城市表现出可见的增长。 全国各地的当地市政府一直在重塑土地利用，分区和食品安全政策，以鼓励城市可持续性。 在恢复家庭农业技能（例如面向食品的园艺，食物保存和家禽的保留）之类的城市宅基地中，自我保护尤为普遍，以促进家庭和社区弹性。 尽管当前在美国的自我证明实践的崛起以及城市居家园的流行，但很少的研究试图充分解释为什么这些实践正在上升，正在实践它们以及它们如何影响城市环境内社会和经济关系的性别，种族和阶级的动态，包括家庭和家庭在内。 通过整合参与者的观察，半结构化访谈以及对波士顿地区城市宅基地的调查，该博士学位论文研究项目的目的是回答以下问题：（1）波士顿地区城市寄宿家庭中自我提供的性质是什么？ （2）由哪些社会和经济关系嵌入并启用的自我保护实践？ （3）自我保护对各个城市量表的社会和经济关系的影响是什么？ 该项目与致力于城市的可持续性和食品正义的其他致力于城市可持续性和食品正义的社区组织合作，样本样本众多的个人和自我证明实践在不同的空间（家庭，社区花园，崇拜场所），每种空间（每个人都具有特殊的法律，社会，经济和环境约束），包括财产价值，工业价值，工业供您的工业供毒素，Zon，Zoning，Zoning，Zoning，Zoning和Food Sapity和Food Sapity和Food Sapity和Food Sapity，以及食品和食品。 这项研究通过询问与自然自我保护的新关系创造的新关系来促进人类环境地理，并通过考虑这些活动如何促进当地经济的多样化来促进经济地理。 它还通过研究城市居家扩展和重新工作在家中的性别关系的方式来对女权主义地理研究对女权主义地理研究做出更具体的贡献。 这项研究的发现将引起政策制定者的关注，因为他们考虑了城市农业和可持续性的生活质量，经济韧性，性别平等以及社会正义方面。 这项研究将每天对城市可持续性在实践中的含义，在城市宅基地方面的意义？生活经验，空间实践和态度。 研究结果将通过公开谈判，社区论坛和互动网站与参与者和当地政策制定者共享。 这项研究还将确定土地使用，分区和食品安全法的可能发生变化，这将使从事各种城市居家园实践的城市居民受益。 作为博士学位论文研究改进奖，该项目将提供支持，使有前途的研究生能够建立独立的研究职业。