Doctoral Dissertation Research: Food Security, Heritage, and Sustainability in Urban Contexts

博士论文研究：城市背景下的粮食安全、遗产和可持续性

• 批准号: 2017165
• 负责人: Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels
• 金额: $ 2.44万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-15 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2017165&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Food; Security

The research supported by this award investigates the creation and consequences of urban sustainability initiatives that use food heritage as a springboard for development. This project examines how community groups are building divergent visions of what the desired city looks like based on different conceptions of the past. Understanding how to evaluate, articulate, and bring together these visions is essential to pursuing food security, minimizing risk to communities, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of urban places. In addition to providing funding for the training of a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, the project will engage a broad cross-section of urban community groups engaged in a collaborative development initiative. It will also provide insight into the role heritage plays in informing how different groups negotiate development programs, with significant implications for planners working in urban development. The research project will be carried out by University of Maryland anthropology doctoral student Ellen Platts, under the supervision of Dr. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels. At a site in the Southwestern United States where sustainable urban development initiatives based on food and culture are being created, this project explores how the politics of sustainability are negotiated in planning for the future. The research questions center on what food heritage means for different groups, how its use in development is perceived and pursued, and what different visions for a sustainable city exist. Data will be collected through semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and archival research. Findings will contribute to improved theoretical and practical understandings of the processes that underlie the use of heritage in development, by actors such as grassroots community organizations, municipal governments, and private investors.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持的研究调查了利用粮食遗产作为发展跳板的城市可持续发展倡议的创建和后果。这个项目探讨了社区团体如何根据过去的不同概念，建立对理想城市的不同看法。了解如何评估、阐明和整合这些愿景对于追求粮食安全、最大限度地减少社区风险以及确保城市地区的长期可持续性至关重要。该项目除了提供资金，培训一名人类学研究生掌握经验性科学数据收集和分析方法外，还将使广泛的跨部门城市社区团体参与合作发展倡议。它还将深入了解遗产在告知不同群体如何谈判发展计划方面所发挥的作用，对从事城市发展的规划者具有重要意义。该研究项目将由马里兰州大学人类学博士生埃伦·普拉茨在凯瑟琳·拉夫伦茨·塞缪尔博士的监督下进行。在美国西南部的一个地方，正在创建基于食物和文化的可持续城市发展倡议，该项目探讨了如何在规划未来时谈判可持续发展的政治。研究问题集中在食物遗产对不同群体意味着什么，如何理解和追求其在发展中的用途，以及可持续城市存在哪些不同的愿景。将通过半结构化访谈、参与者观察和档案研究收集数据。研究结果将有助于提高基层社区组织、市政府和私人投资者对遗产利用发展过程的理论和实践理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。