Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award: Food Security Under Colonial Rule

博士论文改进奖：殖民统治下的粮食安全

• 批准号: 2219566
• 负责人: Amanda Logan
• 金额: $ 1.75万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2219566&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Award; Food

This project investigate the deep histories of food (in)security, specifically seeking to understand how colonial impositions affect local food systems and the strategies that communities develop to mitigate these impacts. These issues are investigated in a region where Indigenous communities experienced two separate but linked waves of colonialism which extended control by forcibly displacing people, imposing religion, and implementing taxes on both labor and goods. Such impositions could decrease food availability within communities, introduce new foods, or alter who has access to food. The project will study archaeological plant remains to document the foods that people produced and ate in the period immediately preceding and during imperial occupations. Plant remains form an unwritten archive of ancient food and therefore offer valuable insight to past peoples’ day-to-day lives, choices, and work. An archaeology of food security is important because it helps to understand the long-term processes that cause food insecurity in the present and the strategies past communities developed in response to food system disruptions. By employing a food security framework, this project seeks not only to contribute to understandings about the past, but also to inform current work on food systems. The project will create paid training opportunities for undergraduate students to gain specialized skills in archaeological science and by assisting in the collection, processing, and analysis of botanical samplesThe project will study plant remains collected from archaeological excavations in ancient households, communal gathering and eating spaces, and agriculture fields. These data will allow the assessment of two key pillars of food security: availability and access. Availability will be documented by tracing stability or change in ingredients over time at the community scale, while access will be studied by comparing plant remains recovered in different households within the community. Findings on availability and access will also inform about the food strategies community members employed by demonstrating stability or change in agriculture, food storage, or trade relations. As such, this project will speak to how food (in)security was created by both imperial impositions and local actions. Overall, this research will advance understandings of colonialism and offer a case study about the interplay between local food strategies, colonial impositions, and food security.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.

该项目调查了粮食安全的深层历史，特别是试图了解殖民强加如何影响当地的粮食系统以及社区为减轻这些影响而制定的战略。这些问题是在一个土著社区经历了两次独立但相互关联的殖民主义浪潮的地区进行调查的，殖民主义通过强迫人民流离失所，强加宗教以及对劳动力和货物征税来扩大控制。这种强制措施可能会减少社区内的粮食供应，引入新的食物，或改变谁可以获得食物。该项目将研究考古植物遗骸，以记录帝国占领之前和期间人们生产和食用的食物。植物遗骸形成了古代食物的不成文档案，因此为过去人们的日常生活，选择和工作提供了宝贵的见解。粮食安全考古学很重要，因为它有助于了解造成目前粮食不安全的长期过程，以及过去社区为应对粮食系统中断而制定的战略。通过采用粮食安全框架，该项目不仅寻求促进对过去的理解，而且还为当前关于粮食系统的工作提供信息。该项目将为本科生创造有偿培训机会，以获得考古科学方面的专业技能，并协助收集，处理和分析植物样本该项目将研究从古代家庭，公共聚会和饮食空间以及农业领域的考古发掘中收集的植物遗骸。这些数据将有助于评估粮食安全的两个关键支柱：供应和获取。将通过在社区范围内追踪成分随时间的稳定性或变化来记录可用性，同时将通过比较社区内不同家庭回收的植物遗骸来研究获取情况。关于可用性和获取的调查结果还将通过展示农业、粮食储存或贸易关系的稳定性或变化，为社区成员提供有关粮食战略的信息。因此，该项目将探讨帝国强加和地方行动如何创造粮食安全。总的来说，这项研究将促进对殖民主义的理解，并提供一个关于当地粮食战略，殖民强加和粮食安全之间相互作用的案例研究。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。