Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Anthropological Examination of the Reorganization of Urban Space in Food Security and Redevelopment Efforts

博士论文研究：粮食安全和重建工作中城市空间重组的人类学检验

• 批准号: 1356904
• 负责人: Kristin Monroe
• 金额: $ 1.14万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2015-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1356904&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Anthropological; Examination

University of Kentucky doctoral student Megan Maurer, under the supervision of Dr. Kristin Monroe, will conduct this study of redevelopment. By understanding and assessing the efforts of community members, civic organizations, and local governments to transform their urban environments, this research will help identify strategies for more inclusive urban redevelopment. The research takes place in Southeast Michigan, an area characterized by crumbling urban infrastructures and bankrupt municipalities. Social scientists find socioeconomically devastated areas of the U.S. such as this particularly useful for studying the social and cultural impediments to redevelopment efforts.The purpose of this project is to investigate the strategies used by individuals from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds to improve their food security. This project also asks how community efforts to transform urban space for productive ends are shaped by different socioeconomic experiences. This research will be conducted in a small city in Southeast Michigan. Using data from semi-structured interviews with local community stewards the researcher will explore four community food production efforts for case study. These case studies will use surveys, maps, in-depth interviews, and participant observations, to identify the connections between ideas about urban land use and their civic engagements. These methods will also be used to determine the role demographics and relationships to others play in shaping these connections. A group of individuals from the four case study neighborhoods that are not part of the organized food production efforts will be included as a comparison group. This project also advances scholarship on the ways working people and socially disadvantaged individuals engage with food security and other challenges in their daily lives. Finally, this study furthers anthropological and other scientific research on the connections between urban space, citizenship, and social change.

肯塔基大学博士生梅根·莫雷尔（Megan Maurer）在克里斯汀·梦露博士的监督下将进行这项重建研究。通过理解和评估社区成员，公民组织和地方政府改变其城市环境的努力，这项研究将有助于确定更具包容性城市重建的策略。这项研究在密歇根州东南部进行，该地区的特征是城市基础设施崩溃和破产市。社会科学家发现，美国的社会经济遭受破坏的领域，例如研究重建工作的社会和文化障碍特别有用。该项目的目的是调查来自不同社会经济背景的个人使用的策略，以改善其粮食安全。该项目还询问社区如何改变城市空间为生产目的的努力是由不同的社会经济经验塑造的。这项研究将在密歇根州东南部的一个小城市进行。利用与当地社区的半结构化访谈中的数据，研究人员将探索四项社区粮食生产工作，以进行案例研究。这些案例研究将使用调查，地图，深入的访谈和参与者的观察，以确定有关城市土地使用及其公民参与的思想之间的联系。这些方法还将用于确定人口统计学和与他人的关系在塑造这些连接方面发挥的作用。来自有组织的粮食生产工作一部分的四个案例研究社区的一组个人将作为比较组包括在内。该项目还为奖学金提供了奖学金，以工作人员和社会不利的人参与日常生活中的粮食安全和其他挑战的方式。最后，这项研究进一步发展了人类学和其他科学研究，该研究对城市空间，公民身份和社会变革之间的联系。