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Eating in Urban Frontiers: Alternative Food and Gentrification in Chicago

Havlik, Brooke (University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)

While scholars and activists have analyzed the consequences of a largely white, middle-class membership in the alternative food movement, lesser consideration has been given to the relationship food has with gentrification ...
Food Values and the Human Right to Food: A Sociological Analysis of Food Insecurity in Oregon

Van Pelt, Craig (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)

Treating food as a commodity is a dominant mode of valuing food in the United States, and around the world, in which people exchange money for food. But in a world that can feed over 10-billion people why is poverty ...
Why do people use Community Gardens? To bolster their sense of community, of course!

Kilmer, Mark (University of Oregon, Dept. of Architecture, Portland Program, 2008)

Objective - To assess the motivating factors in participation of community garden users. This was done through a series of short interviews with users at various locations. An attempt to discover a set of morals and ...