A5053220285- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Education Systems and Policy
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Sex work and related issues
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Gut microbiota and health
University of Arizona
2017-2025
Harvard University
2024
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
2022
Kansas City University
2021
University of Washington
2014-2017
Seattle University
2015-2017
Arizona State University
2014-2015
University of California, Santa Barbara
2011-2012
University of California, Santa Cruz
2012
Humans are inextricably linked to each other and our natural world, microorganisms lie at the nexus of those interactions. Microorganisms form genetically flexible, taxonomically diverse, biochemically rich communities, i.e., microbiomes that integral health development macroorganisms, societies, ecosystems.
Abstract What transformative potential might reside in play as a collaborative method, particularly contexts of migration and with populations marginalized youth? In this paper, we explore “ anthropology ” while drawing from our collective experiences research through Palermo‐based participatory film storytelling lab that foregrounds “il gioco” (play). We discuss the lab's approach to method process co‐creation helps navigating social linguistic differences, invites practices improvisation,...
Attention to culinary care can enrich the framing of health within medical anthropology. We focus on practices in six Latin American kitchens illuminate forms not located a singular human subject. In these kitchens, women cared for individuals but meals, targeting families and landscapes. Many anthropologists have critiqued its associations with biomedicine/biocapitalism, some even taking stance 'against health.' Although sympathetic this critique, our women's caring through food highlights...
Abstract Global climate change and the continued neoliberalization of food systems have exacerbated levels insecurity hunger, producing an ever-expanding population displaced persons who are also nutritionally vulnerable. Restrictive immigration policies in post-arrival resettlement contexts compound with other cultural, social, political, economic conditions to negatively affect security health persons. This article engages a comparative ethnographic perspective for examining migration-food...
Abstract Drawing on preliminary research in Italy the months following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and gradual lifting pandemic‐related public health measures, this essay explores widespread economic, political, environmental anxieties as well calls for solidarity that were circulating at time their implications ethnographers attempting to “make sense” sociocultural phenomena a world feels “unhinged.” From these swirling anxieties, hegemonic framings “reality” by state actors contrast...
Views Icon Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Get Permissions Cite Search Site Citation Susan Greenhalgh, Megan Carney; Bad Biocitizens?: Latinos and the US "Obesity Epidemic". Human Organization 1 September 2014; 73 (3): 267–276. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.73.3.w53hh1t413038240 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar...
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. We Had Nothing to Eat: The Biopolitics Food Insecurity 2. Caring Through Food: La Lucha Diaria 3. Nourishing Neoliberalism? Narratives Sufrimiento 4. Disciplining Subjects: Security as a Biopolitical Project 5. Managing Care: Strategies Resistance and Healing Conclusion Epilogue Appendix A B Notes References
In this article, I utilize a political ecology of the body (PEB) approach to analyze women's transnational migration and their experiences with 'food insecurity.' situate analysis within tradition feminist ecology, seeking advance 'postcolonial intersectionality' that is attentive gender, race, class as axes power difference, also markers citizenship or lack thereof, including 'illegality.' argue ideologies behind these obscure very social processes in which constituted, those allow an...
This paper contextualizes the discourses of "food security" and sovereignty" within history global industrial food system aims to increase understanding these different among activists, justice activists in particular. The highlights some epistemological, methodological, ethical challenges defining, measuring, alleviating insecurity, using U.S. as a case study. As suggested conclusion, social scientists must continue engage with through campus-community partnerships help decipher trade-offs...
Anthropological approaches to "immigrant mental health" as an object of ethnographic inquiry can illuminate how psychosocial well-being – or decline and the therapeutic realm health is always enacted by a variety institutions social actors. The ways that understood approached across different geographical settings are constitutive range cultural meanings, norms, relations. authors in this special section provide crucial insights into landscape immigrant experience multiple exclusions...
In this article, we highlight findings from ethnographic research on dietary health interventions with low-income Latino im/migrant populations in the Central Coast of California. We discuss assumptions underpinning different models nutrition intervention and education, as well what these suggest about common perceptions knowledge. demonstrate how contribute to further marginalization im/migrants by positioning them either helpless, unknowing subjects or freeloading dependents state. argue...
This article introduces the feminist praxis of duoethnography as a way to examine COVID era. As group diverse, junior, midcareer, and senior scholars, we developed methodology critically reflect on our positions in institutions social worlds. method, emphasizes dialogical intimacy that can form through anthropological work. While autoethnography draws individual daily lives make sense sociopolitical dynamics, relational character research across people practices. Taking aspects knowledge...
In this article, I examine the various meanings of Mexican and Central American migrant women's utilization private food assistance programs. present findings from 20 months ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2008 2011 with women, public health workers, staff volunteers programs in Santa Barbara County, California. discuss barriers undocumented women face accessing formal care social moral obligations that underpin these role feeding others. also document ways which are orienting...
Ongoing social, economic, and political marginalization combined with racialized gender violence has sentenced Black women in the United States to disproportionate harm form of premature illness death. Despite widespread recognition within medical social sciences, public health, work health inequities that unevenly impact women, as a population, their suffering continues be overlooked marginalized biomedical research, healthcare institutions, policy. This omission contributes naturalization...
This article examines how state practices around food contribute to the militarization of migration experience. Specifically, I argue for more attention feeding detention centers in particular, as topic has been relatively absent from critical analyses surveillance, detention, and deportation unauthorized migrants. In case centers, depriving detainees is a primary mode constructing detainee subjectivity. present evidence systems both reinforce logic contemporary biopolitics by exacting...
The Lancet Commissions are widely known as aspirational pieces, providing the mechanisms for consortia and networks of researchers to organize, collate, interrogate publish around a range subjects. Although predominantly led by biomedical scientists cognate public health professionals, many address social science questions involve expertise. Medical anthropologist David Napier was lead author Commission on Culture Health (2014), example, all commissions global...
Abstract This article discusses migrant food insecurity in the United States from perspective of Mexican and Central American women. Many describe migrating because they had nothing to eat their countries origin. Migration is thus framed as a necessary strategy for overcoming insecurity. I argue that these women's perspectives are unique migration literature security comprises gendered labour which men frequently spared. Unfortunately, still prevails households US . Assuming “double‐duty”...
Abstract The rhetoric of "food security" has dominated mainstream approaches to global food insecurity while alternative have received less attention. For decades, the World Food Prize honored work in tradition security." More recently, Sovereignty brought attention approaches, namely sovereignty" approach. This article explores how inaugural awarding represents an attempt bring broader visibility and gain recognition these by policymakers. Notes 1. 2nd was awarded Family Farm Defenders at...