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Meanings and Visions of Healthy and Unhealthy Food in Flevoland, the Netherlands
No full textThis chapter turns attention to the Netherlands, precisely the province of Flevoland, to show the meanings of healthy and unhealthy food. The choice of Flevoland was because the province is on an agricultural polder in the Netherlands at the forefront of agricultural transformations. By combining photovoice and online surveys, findings show that meanings of healthy food are predominantly nutrition-based. This is determined by the government recommendation (Disc of five) promoting a nutrition-based understanding of healthy and unhealthy food. This chapter highlights the overemphasis on nutrition in meanings of healthy and unhealthy food. The chapter argues that although the nutrition-based discourse on healthy and unhealthy food is dominant amongst Dutch consumers, there also exist socio-culturally informed meanings of un/healthy which include the pleasure derived from the acts of sharing food experiences that positively contribute to consumers’ overall pleasure and satisfaction with consumer’s food consumption. These socio-culturally informed meanings of un/healthy food are equally important to consumers. Therefore, the author argues that the key to the future of healthy food is a middle ground where nutritionally rich food meets socially informed meanings of healthy food
Introduction to Understandings of Healthy and Unhealthy Food
No full textThe introductory chapter begins by making a strong case for the food system transformation based on the argument that food system transformation currently has a very limited focus on social sustainability. More importantly, there is a lack of sufficient recognition for the inclusion of consumers’ perspectives in pathways for food transformation. In addition, the chapter argues for explicit and diverse transition pathways regarding food systems. Drawing on the dearth of knowledge in connection with what (un)healthy food means in some contexts, the chapter argues for a more inclusive global vision of (un)healthy food as a pathway for achieving a diversified transformation but also pluralising the voices within the transition process. By raising six key questions, the chapter further explains the geographic notions of place and space as the conceptual basis for describing the study's contexts. In conclusion, the chapter quizzed whether place or space has much influence in framing meanings of what is healthy or unhealthy. Without pre-empting the data gathered, the theory of sensemaking is also employed to explain plausible meanings of what is (un)healthy
Contradictions and Consistencies in Understandings of Food in High and Low-Middle-Income Countries
No full textThe existence of different food cultures across the world and their link to health or well-being raise the questions of how health or unhealth in food is perceived in these different food cultures?; What characterises them?; and What similarities and differences exist between them? Although speculatively, studies around these questions suggest that there might be heterogeneity not only in terms of different regions within a country or continent but also with regard to different global regions; there is currently insufficient comprehensive international comparison of different food cultures in a single study. To fill this gap in the literature, this chapter used Photovoice to engage 90 participants across 18 countries selected from the World Banks’ 2023 financial year categorisation of High-Income Countries (HICs) and Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). While the two worlds—HICs and LMICs—are similar in terms of vegetable consumption and snacking, there are significant differences on how these manifest in these blocks. Results revealed five key areas of difference between LMICs and HICs concerning similar categories—rising cost of food, vegetable consumption, fruit consumption, perceptions of fast food and meat eating. This knowledge could promote a better understanding of food cultures that go beyond nutrition which has been the dominant frame for defining healthy and unhealthy food. Varied knowledge bases must be considered when promoting healthy eating habits and addressing food insecurity in different parts of the world
Geographies of Food: Global visions of healthy and unhealthy food
No full textThe book offers a multi-scale, epistemically diverse, and sense-making perspectives on the food system. The book argues that sustainable food system transformation is a complex proposition that can better thrive upon the inclusion of consumer perspectives. The book brings together scholarly works of scholars and practitioners who bring to bear the uniqueness of places, cultures, histories and interactions in the milieu of food
Viola M. Harrison letter to Lucile Atcherson, August 14, 1914
No full textOn August 14, 1914, the executive secretary of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, Viola M. Harrison, sent this letter to Lucile Atcherson, a suffragist in central Ohio and executive secretary of the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association. Harrison wrote to Atcherson to confirm that the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association's state banner, which had been on loan with the FCWSA, had arrived safely in Lincoln, Nebraska. Harrison also congratulated Atcherson on a successful petition event in Ohio, and expressed her hopes for both Ohio and Nebraska to achieve equal suffrage for women.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
CANCELLED: Author and Activist Maggie Harrison Lowery to Speak
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2018). CANCELLED: Author and Activist Maggie Harrison Lowery to Speak. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/223946
'If I should die tonight' poem
No full textHumorous poem copied by Harrison Kerr and written by Benjamin Franklin King ca. 1890. The poem, titled "If I should die tonight," jokes about money owed to the author and the shock he would experience at being repaid upon his death. It was written as a parody of a serious contemporary poem of the same title.
Harrison Henry Kerr (1839-1901), born in North Georgetown, Ohio, served along with his brother, Ezra, as a private in Company D of the 58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi, on December 29, 1862., and held for three months before being exchanged and returning to his regiment. He was discharged on January 14, 1865. Following the war, he was married to Elizabeth (Rettig) Kerr. The two lived in Cleveland and had one son, Harrison McKinley Kerr. In 1888, he joined the Memorial Post No. 141, Grand Army of the Republic. He is buried in North Georgetown Cemetery
Striving for just sustainabilities in urban foodscape planning: the case of Almere city in the Netherlands
No full textAs cities increasingly adopt diverse ethnic, social, and cultural characteristics, there is an emerging logic for planning and policy to reflect this hyper-diversity (inclusion) while resolving the looming sustainability-related challenges. However, what is not adequately addressed in the current literature on urban planning – which could also solidify the justification for more citizen inclusion – is what happens when citizens are involved in planning from the perspective of sustainability. In response, this paper asks a key question: “What are the implications, in the case of urban foodscape, when citizens are involved in planning from the perspective of sustainability?” This question is investigated in this paper in the domain of urban foodscapes and through qualitative interviews, with the support of maps, in the Dutch city of Almere. A novel theoretical combination of just sustainabilities and social licence to operate (SLO) was utilised to frame citizen inclusion in foodscape planning. The findings showed that based on everyday practical experiences of food access in the city, citizens were more concerned about social interaction, the representation of food from cultural origins, and local food production. This theoretical combination, as a way of deepening inclusion, would help avoid the tendency of urban planning being used as an instrument for glossing over social injustice under the guise of citizen participation. This paper, therefore, argues that SLO can be a key pathway for actualising just sustainabilities in both urban planning research and policy
Scott Harrison: Founder and CEO of Charity: Water and New York Times Best-Selling Author
No full textScott Harrison spent almost 10 years as a nightclub promoter in New York City before leaving to volunteer on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia. Returning to New York two years later, he founded the nonprofit organization charity: water in 2006.
To address the global water crisis and help the world\u27s 663 million people without clean water to drink, charity: water has raised more than $350 million and funded nearly 30,000 water projects in 26 countries. When completed, those projects will provide more than 8.5 million people with safe drinking water.
He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and author of the New York Times bestselling book Thirst: A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
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