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Recipes of Resolve: Food and Meaning in Post-Diluvian New Orleans

Menck, Jessica Claire
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1331074997

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2012, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
In 2005 the city of New Orleans experienced catastrophic flooding as a result of the failure of the federal levee system following Hurricane Katrina. This was an immediate disaster that evolved into a longer-term crisis as the city, state, and national government struggled to respond to the event. This study focuses on one part of managing crisis: meaning making. Specifically, the study investigates meaning making within the food community of New Orleans, asking the questions: is food a way for individuals and groups to make meaning following critical change events such as the failure of the federal levee system in New Orleans, and if so, how? It employs tools of ethnographic inquiry and participatory action research, such as: case study, interviews, field notes, photography, recipes, and multiple media, to suggest an approach to investigating meaning making within food systems affected by critical change events. The sample of the study draws on a wide spectrum of experience and perspective on food in the region. This spectrum ranges from restaurateurs and others who go back multiple generations in the New Orleans food community and new comers, including two groups of recent immigrants. This study finds that despite these differences, there are four common discourses that leaders and others in this community use to think and talk about food in relationship to critical change: culture, ecology, economics, and politics. The study embodies an approach that goes beyond the dominant nutrition versus culture paradigm. The discourses this study reports, may serve as a framework for investigating the meaning of food in other locales and contexts of change. Finally, this study illustrates the emergence of formal and informal leadership in the face of critical change. In this way, the study moves beyond the dominant attention given to people in formal positions of authority to focus on the leadership of people in their resolve to make meaning out of crisis. This dissertation integrates multiple media to express data and findings, and is accompanied by twenty-six embedded audio files. The electronic version of the Dissertation is accessible in the open-access OhioLink ETD Center, www.ohiolink.edu/etd/
Richard A. Couto, PhD (Committee Chair)
Philomena Essed, PhD (Committee Member)
Paul Stoller, PhD (Committee Member)
Arjen Boin, PhD (Committee Member)
Barbara Mossberg, PhD (Other)
287 p.
Agricultural Economics; American Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Ecology; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Nutrition; Organizational Behavior; Political Science; Social Research; Social Structure; Sustainability
New Orleans; food; meaning-making; crisis; disaster; resiliency; Hurricane Katrina; food industry; ethnography; participatory action research; food assessment; civic groups; leadership; sustainability; food systems; civic agriculture; culinary history

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  • Menck, J. C. (2012). Recipes of Resolve: Food and Meaning in Post-Diluvian New Orleans [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1331074997

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Menck, Jessica. Recipes of Resolve: Food and Meaning in Post-Diluvian New Orleans. 2012. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1331074997.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Menck, Jessica. "Recipes of Resolve: Food and Meaning in Post-Diluvian New Orleans." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1331074997

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