Mallika Bose (mub13@psu.edu)<\/p>\n
Motivation<\/strong><\/p>\n The motivation behind my work has been very simple: to get an understanding of the food system of low-income families in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 The plan is to use this understanding as a springboard for future work related to food system planning. As part of this project I have worked with public housing communities in Harrisburg and Lewistown, and more recently two neighborhoods in West Philadelphia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Expectations<\/strong><\/p>\n I plan to work in this area for an extended period of time.\u00a0 I hope to understand the complexities of the system and figure out ways of engaging with the actors involved at different locations (being an architect\/planner, my worldview is place based, and hence my unit of analysis is at the neighborhood scale) with the intention of being a (positive) change agent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Modes of engagement <\/strong><\/p>\n My work has engaged with community members though I typically do not characterize it as public scholarship, since I only work with a small group of students.\u00a0 One of my prime motivations for participating in this seminar is to see how others are engaging in work related with the food system through a public scholarship framework.\u00a0 I have engaged with community members through focus groups and telephone interviews. I have also learned about the food environment of the communities that I am working in by conducting surveys of restaurants\/grocery stores\/convenience stores at the neighborhood scale.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Unforeseen implications <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Personally, one ramification of my project is finding out the complexities of the food system in this country, and the structural inequalities of the social\/political\/economic system in which we are all implicated. Grappling with the complexity of the issues is sometimes a roadblock to my personal agency. It is daunting to figure out how to tackle the problem without being overwhelmed by the issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mallika Bose (mub13@psu.edu) Motivation The motivation behind my work has been very simple: to get an understanding of the food system of low-income families in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 The plan is to use this understanding as a springboard for future work related to food system planning. As part of this project I have worked with public housing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blonsway.expressions.syr.edu\/sustainingsustenance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}