Food, Ethnicity, and Place: Feeding Families and Nourishing Communities

食物、种族和地方：养活家庭和滋养社区

• 批准号: 1155844
• 负责人: Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
• 金额: $ 24.92万
• 依托单位: San Diego State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2016-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1155844&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Food; Ethnicity; Place; Feeding; Families

The project investigates the everyday food practices of children and their families in various urban neighborhoods in an effort to better understand the relationships between food, ethnicity, and place. Although scholars have noted the importance of food environments in shaping food choices and health outcomes, research to date tends to compartmentalize place-level factors and ignore the relational qualities of place. The presumably less healthy food habits of low-income and minority populations are typically explained by lower access to affordable and healthy food. However, food practices, ethnicity and place are mutually constituted through a web of social, political, economic and emotional relations within homes and communities. These connections between food, ethnicity and place remain poorly theorized and need to be more systematically substantiated through empirical and comparative analysis. In particular, there is limited research on the ways that family dynamics and children influence these relationships. The project addresses this knowledge gap by investigating everyday family food practices associated with the acquisition, preparation and consumption of food, intra-household negotiations of these practices and responses to diverse and changing local food environments in several neighborhoods in San Diego representing predominantly Italian, East African and Mexican communities. Particular attention is given to the enabling/constraining capacities of place in shaping social reproduction and children's agency in influencing family practices, resisting gendered divisions of labor, and creating new bridges between home and other environments. Quantitative and qualitative approaches are integrated to collect and analyze data. In each site, the research team will conduct food audits, map food resources and census data, and interview store and restaurant owners, school and public officials, and leaders of community-based organizations to generate a better understanding of the local food environment. This will inform extensive ethnographic research centered on children and their families to collect data on everyday food practices and the dynamic relationships between food, place, and ethnic identities. Data will be collected through food-related activities in schools, participant observation, focus groups and subsequent family interviews of children and parents/guardians both separately and together.This project will be the basis of a new community-based research and service-learning curriculum for undergraduates and will provide training for graduate students. The research team will work closely with local organizations in identifying needs and resources, developing solutions, and disseminating findings. This project will also advance the literature on food practices by situating them in place-specific social relations. Doing so, it will contribute to research on environmental context of food consumption by considering the relational qualities of place, their embeddedness in social relations, and the ways these spatialized relations produce unique food environments and influence food choices. It will expand and further connect literatures on children and social reproduction by bringing children firmly into the negotiated process of social reproduction through our ethnographic work. In addition, the research will contribute knowledge on race by generating better understandings of the spatiality of 'ethnic' food practices and the social construction and materiality of race. This project is cofunded by the Geography and Spatial Sciences and Cultural Anthropology Programs.

该项目调查了各个城市社区中儿童及其家人的日常食品实践，以更好地了解食物，种族和地方之间的关系。尽管学者注意到食物环境在塑造食物选择和健康成果中的重要性，但迄今为止的研究倾向于将地位级别的因素分散，而忽略了当地的关系质量。低收入和少数族裔人口的健康食品习惯可能减少了，通常可以通过降低可负担和健康食品的机会来解释。但是，粮食实践，种族和地点是通过家庭和社区内社会，政治，经济和情感关系的网络相互构成的。食物，种族和地点之间的这些联系仍然很差，需要通过经验和比较分析来系统地证实。特别是，关于家庭动态和儿童影响这些关系的方式的研究有限。该项目通过调查与食品的获取，准备和消费相关的日常家庭食品实践，对这些实践的收购，准备和消费相关的日常粮食实践以及对圣地亚哥几个社区的多元化和不断变化的当地粮食环境的反应，代表意大利，东非，东非，东非和墨西哥社区。特别关注在影响家庭实践，抵抗性别分裂的劳动分裂以及在家庭和其他环境之间创建新的桥梁时，特别注意塑造社会繁殖和儿童代理方面的位置和约束能力。定量和定性方法被整合以收集和分析数据。在每个站点中，研究团队将进行食品审核，地图饮食资源和人口普查数据，并采访商店和餐厅老板，学校和公共官员以及社区组织的领导者，以更好地了解当地食品环境。这将为以儿童及其家人为中心的广泛的人种志研究提供信息，以收集有关日常食品实践的数据以及食物，地方和种族身份之间的动态关系。数据将通过在学校中与食物相关的活动，参与者的观察，焦点小组以及随后的儿童和父母/监护人的家庭访谈进行收集。该项目将是一项新的基于社区的本科生的研究和服务学习课程的基础，并将为研究生提供培训。研究团队将与当地组织紧密合作，以识别需求和资源，开发解决方案并传播发现。该项目还将通过将食品实践置于特定的社会关系来推动有关食品实践的文献。这样做，它将通过考虑当地的关系品质，它们在社会关系中的嵌入以及这些空间关系产生独特的食物环境并影响食物选择的方式来有助于对食物消费环境的研究。它将通过我们的民族志工作将儿童牢固地进入社会繁殖过程，扩大并进一步联系有关儿童和社会繁殖的文献。此外，这项研究将通过对“种族”食品实践的空间以及种族的社会建设和实质性的空间了解，从而为种族提供知识。 该项目由地理，空间科学和文化人类学计划造就了索福。