The Taste of Gentrification

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-53
Author(s):  
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli ◽  
Fernando J. Bosco
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Food Deserts ◽  
Spatial Processes ◽  
Social Distinction

Food and taste have become symbols of neighborhood transformation and powerful tools of urban renewal. Building on Bourdieu’s notion of taste as social distinction, we argue that food distinguishes places, giving some neighborhoods character and value, while stigmatizing others as food deserts. Although new and reclaimed food spaces seem to transform gentrifying neighborhoods and attract newcomers, food insecurity remains a significant concern among long-term residents, who resent recent changes and feel displaced. This chapter relies on qualitative reviews of restaurants in two rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods of San Diego to show how tastes become ways for newcomers and long-term residents to relate to each other, reflecting broader socio-spatial processes associated with class, race, and ethnicity.

scholarly journals The Persistence of Race and Ethnicity in the use of Long-Term Care

1998 ◽  
Vol 53B (2) ◽  
pp. S104-S112 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Wallace ◽  
L. Levy-Storms ◽  
R. S. Kington ◽  
R. M. Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Term Care

Niger self-defence groups will hasten violence spiral

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Downward Spiral ◽  
Self Defence

Significance Such attacks reinforce the sense of vulnerability and desire revenge that give rise to such self-defence groups in the first place, and contribute to a downward spiral in security in the Tillaberi and Tahoua regions. Impacts Governor and prefect reshuffles will not be enough to arrest the rising tide of violence. Western Niger will remain at crisis levels of food insecurity through mid-2022, due to the violence and other long-term vulnerabilities. Mali’s own spreading violence will hinder Niger from containing its own.

Resetting the “Good Food” Table

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Sbicca
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Food Access ◽  
Food Deserts ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Direct Knowledge ◽  
Labor Activists ◽  
Food Movement ◽  
Good Food

The formation of food-labor alliances in Los Angeles pushes food justice politics beyond a focus on food access, culturally appropriate food, and self-determination by strategically emphasizing economic inequalities and working conditions and engaging in confrontational politics. These alliances reveal that it is important to have highly visible labor campaigns, the integration of activists with direct knowledge or experience of food work and food insecurity into the food movement, and labor activists who will combat food deserts and therefore work alongside food justice activists through the lens of poverty. In short, it is essential to build a food movement that can fight to take care of the hands that grow, process, deliver, and sell the food meant to nourish the good food revolution.

Impact of COVID-19 on Food Insecurity and Coping Mechanisms of Marginalized People in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
pp. 241-254
Author(s):  
Emadul Islam ◽  
Ishtiaque Jahan Shoef ◽  
Mehadi Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Coping Mechanisms ◽  
Index Score ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Food Needs ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact

This chapter is part of an extensive panel survey conducted among the BRAC COVID-19 response HHs between April 2020 to September 2020. This chapter aims to describe the food insecurity status of BRAC-supported HHs and their coping strategies to combat the impact of COVID-19. A total of 6,086 HHs were interviewed in the 1st round (April 2020-June 2020), whilst these HHs were interviewed in the 2nd round (July 2020 to September 2020). Findings reveal that COVID-19 has created an unprecedented impact on HH food insecurity. The study prepared a food index score and found that 33% of HHs are extremely food insecure, whilst 19% are highly insecure. In terms of coping strategies to the current food needs of the HHs, dependency on the personal mechanism and institutional mechanisms were identified. The study argues that the COVID-19 crisis forces HHs into long-term loan burden, which may lead to another hurdle, causing delayed HHs economic recovery. Long-term GO and NGO sustainable economic recovery intervention could help marginalized people to build back better from COVID-19.

Food Insecurity and Mortality in American Adults: Results From the NHANES-Linked Mortality Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 152483992094592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srikanta Banerjee ◽  
Tim Radak ◽  
Jagdish Khubchandani ◽  
Patrick Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The Impact

Food insecurity is a significant public health problem in the United States leading to substantial social, economic, and health care–related burdens. While studies continue to estimate the prevalence of food insecurity, the long-term outcomes are not extensively explored. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of food insecurity on mortality. We analyzed data on adults (≥ 20 years) from the 1999–2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, with mortality data obtained through 2015. Among the total study participants (n = 25,247), 17.6% reported food insecurity. Food-insecure individuals were more likely to be younger in age, minorities, poorer, with lesser education, obese, smokers, and with diabetes compared to food-secure counterparts. During a 10.2-year follow-up, among the food insecure, 821 individuals died (11%). The hazard ratio (HR) for mortality among the food insecure compared with the food secure, with adjustment for age and gender only, was 1.58; 95% confidence interval [CI: 1.25, 2.01]. The adjusted HRs for all-cause mortality, HR = 1.46, CI [1.23, 1.72], p < .001, and cardiovascular mortality, HR = 1.75, CI [1.19, 2.57], p < .01, were statistically significantly higher among food-insecure individuals, after adjustment for multiple demographic and health risk factors. Individuals who are food-insecure have a significantly higher probability of death from any cause or cardiovascular disease in long-term follow-up. Comprehensive and interdisciplinary approaches to reducing food insecurity–related disparities and health risks should be implemented. Including food insecurity in health risk assessments and addressing food insecurity as a determinant of long-term outcomes may contribute to lower premature death rates.

scholarly journals Do Urban Food Deserts Exist in the Global South? An Analysis of Nairobi and Mexico City

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Wagner ◽  
Lucy Hinton ◽  
Cameron McCordic ◽  
Samuel Owuor ◽  
Guénola Capron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Dietary Diversity ◽  
Food Deserts ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Global South ◽  
Food Desert ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Household Survey Data

Recent conceptualizations of ‘food deserts’ have expanded from a sole focus on access to supermarkets, to food retail outlets, to all household food sources. Each iteration of the urban food desert concept has associated this kind of food sourcing behavior to poverty, food insecurity, and dietary diversity characteristics. While the term continues to evolve, there has been little empirical evidence to test whether these assumed associations hold in cities of the Global South. This paper empirically tests the premises of three iterations of the urban food desert concept using household survey data collected in Nairobi, Kenya, and Mexico City, Mexico. While these associations are statistically significant and show the expected correlation direction between household food sourcing behavior and food security, the strength of these relationships tends to be weak. These findings indicate that the urban food desert concept developed in North American and UK cities may have limited relevance to measuring urban food insecurity in the Global South.

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