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.

肯塔基大学的博士生Megan Maurer将在Kristin Monroe博士的指导下进行这项重新开发的研究。通过了解和评估社区成员、公民组织和地方政府为改变其城市环境所做的努力，这项研究将有助于确定更具包容性的城市重建战略。这项研究发生在密歇根州东南部，该地区的特点是城市基础设施摇摇欲坠，市政当局破产。社会科学家发现，像这样的美国社会经济受灾地区对于研究重建工作的社会和文化障碍特别有用。这个项目的目的是调查来自不同社会经济背景的个人使用哪些策略来改善他们的粮食安全。该项目还询问了社区如何通过不同的社会经济经验来改变城市空间以达到生产目的。这项研究将在密歇根州东南部的一个小城市进行。使用与当地社区管理人员的半结构化访谈数据，研究人员将探索四个社区食品生产努力的案例研究。这些案例研究将使用调查、地图、深度访谈和参与者观察，以确定关于城市土地使用的想法和他们的公民参与之间的联系。这些方法也将被用来确定人口统计和与他人的关系在塑造这些联系中所起的作用。来自四个案例研究社区的一组人将被作为对照组，这些社区不是有组织的食品生产努力的一部分。该项目还促进了关于劳动人民和社会弱势个人如何在日常生活中应对粮食安全和其他挑战的学术研究。最后，这项研究进一步对城市空间、公民身份和社会变化之间的联系进行了人类学和其他科学研究。