Doctoral Dissertation Research: Understandings of Food Insecurity and Urban Space in Kansas City

博士论文研究：对堪萨斯城粮食不安全和城市空间的理解

• 批准号: 1656950
• 负责人: ANN KINGSOLVER
• 金额: $ 1.81万
• 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: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1656950&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Understandings; Food

This project, which trains a graduate student in methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, explores how low-income urban residents experience and respond to food insecurity when organizational efforts that target hunger alleviation are introduced into their neighborhoods. Food insecure populations and economically divested urban spaces are increasingly the focus of municipal government and non-governmental programs, which focus on turning vacant lots into sources of food. But studies indicate that a majority of these programs are not succeeding at including food insecure people of color. This project asks how those served by food justice programs themselves map food access and barriers to food access. How do understandings of those providing and receiving services in food justice programs compare? Food justice initiatives and the creation of urban gardens are often spoken of as strong benefits to urban citizens. But are those the most effective ways to address food insecurity, or do residents express other means of addressing food access and urban vacancy? This data and findings from this project will be disseminated with the aim of contributing to a stronger framework for designing effective policies for more equitable food access in diverse U.S. cities. This research will be conducted by University of Kentucky doctoral student Chhaya Kolavalli, with direction from Dr. Ann Kingsolver, in Kansas City, Missouri. Kolavalli will conduct extensive participant observation in a fragmented area of the city that officials refer to as a food desert. This section of the city is predominantly occupied by African American residents, and is the site of many food justice programs intended to address food insecurity, making it an ideal site to test the efficacy of these initiatives. Her mixed methods approach will include interviewing, content analysis, interactive social mapping, and focus groups. Interactive social mapping will be used to map and compare food justice activist service providers and service recipients' understandings of food access, race, and urban space. Findings from this research will contribute to understandings of how urban space and hunger are experienced and navigated by low-income minority populations. Results will be shared with Kansas City's municipal government and representatives of non-governmental organizations.

该项目培训了一名研究生的经验，科学数据收集和分析方法，探讨了低收入城市居民的经历和对粮食不安全的反应，当将饥饿减轻的组织努力引入其附近时。粮食不安全的人口和经济剥离的城市空间越来越成为市政政府和非政府计划的重点，这些计划的重点是将空置的土地变成食物来源。但是研究表明，这些计划中的大多数并没有成功地包括有色人种的粮食不安全的人。该项目询问食品正义计划自己服务的人本身如何绘制食品获取和食品获取的障碍。对在食品正义计划中提供和接受服务的人的理解如何比较？粮食正义计划和城市花园的创建通常对城市公民表示强烈的好处。但是，这些方法是解决粮食不安全的最有效方法，还是居民表达解决粮食获取和城市空缺的其他手段？该项目的数据和调查结果将被传播，目的是为更强大的框架做出更强大的框架，以设计有效的政策，以便在美国各种城市中更公平的食品获取。这项研究将由肯塔基大学的博士生Chhaya Kolavalli进行，并从密苏里州堪萨斯城的Ann Kingsolver博士进行指示。科拉瓦利将在官员称为食品沙漠的城市零散地区进行广泛的参与者观察。该市的这一部分主要由非裔美国居民占领，是许多旨在解决粮食不安全感的许多食品正义计划的所在地，使其成为测试这些举措有效性的理想场所。她的混合方法方法将包括访谈，内容分析，交互式社交映射和焦点小组。互动社会映射将用于映射和比较食品正义激进主义者服务提供商以及服务接受者对食品获取，种族和城市空间的理解。这项研究的发现将有助于理解如何由低收入少数民族的人口经历和导航。结果将与堪萨斯城的市政府和非政府组织的代表分享。