How was it decided what sensory food experiences would be used in the film, Tompopo? Were the exaggerated sensations intended to shock viewers or get them to more strongly relate to the experiences?
Month: February 2020 (Page 4 of 8)
The report Behavior Change for Nature: A Behavioral Science Toolkit for Practitioners is a guide for professionals on how behavioral science can be better applied to campaigns and programs that seek to change the behavior of a group of people. Firstly, it explains why behavior change is so critical for tackling the many facets of environmental decline that we face and looks at audiences that should be addressed to help combat this loss. It also emphasizes the importance of regulation and legislation, but discusses situations where they are ineffective. The development of new strategies for motivating behavior change is absolutely critical, and this report addresses some of those strategies and how to put them into practice. This report is useful because it dives deeply into behavioral psychology’s relevance and applicability to our society to meet the goals that are necessary if we want to stop the global climate crisis and habitat loss that we face. In our project, knowing these techniques while also understand how to go about implementing them will be extremely valuable, as our campaign will seek to change student behavior here at Dickinson.
Rare and The Behavioural Insights Team. (2019). Behavior Change For Nature: A Behavioral
Science Toolkit for Practitioners. Arlington, VA: Rare.
The article Food Science Challenge: Translating the Dietary Guidelines for Americans to Bring About Real Behavior Change is the result of two discussions between food and nutrition scientists on how to meet the goals of shifting the American diet to be more aligned with dietary recommendations set by the US government. The importance of the family in integrating food-related behavior change stood out to me in this article, and made me wonder about how that is different here at Dickinson, where everyone is in charge of their own diets. A point of commonality is that these changes were stressed as needing to be as seamless as possible to integrate into our daily routines, otherwise they will not work. Everyone on this campus has likely at least heard of the climate crisis and probably has their own opinion. It will be difficult if not completely impractical to try to convince people to change their beliefs – if they do not already align with actions that are less impactful on the environment – just by throwing raw information about the environmental impact of choosing certain foods over others. This article also made me think about how it will be important for Giuseppe and I to be in communication with Dining Services throughout this process and adapt to their goals. I know that Dining Services has a plan to reduce meat consumption on campus by 25%, so it will be critical for us to meet with them to see what they have planned already, and how our project can contribute.
Rowe, Sylvia, et al. “Food Science Challenge: Translating the Dietary Guidelines for Americans to Bring About Real Behavior Change.” Journal of Food Science, vol. 76, no. 1, 2011, pp. R29–R37., doi:10.1111/j.1750-3841.2010.01973.x.
This article explores how food memories contribute to the construction of migrant identities and cultural practices. Often times migrant communities seek to create a home away from home through cooking, sharing, and consuming ethnic food. The article argues that food is central to the ways migrants identify themselves both in an individual and collective way. This source will provide background information on food, memory, and identity while giving us specific examples from the Cameroonian community in Cape Town, South Africa.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26549625?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
During the constant movement and relocation immigrants experience, food has the ability to give people a sense of place or belonging. From production, preparation, or consumption individuals and groups craft their identities around these different goods and lifestyles. This article will help us to understand how others have used food to find their sense of belonging while constantly moving. This source can also give us some ideas on the types of interview questions we would like to ask people.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q7NA-RN5NgomkOqfyeJe4-HrbK0IyPTkTRkqCQJIV2c/edit?usp=sharing
Our project will be a documentary focusing of the psychological benefits, policy structures and environmental elements of community gardens. As a psychology major, I will research the psychological frameworks that make documentaries emotional and motivating for audiences in order to design a persuasive film.
Bondebjerg, I. (2014). Documentary and Cognitive Theory: Narrative, Emotion and Memory. Media and Communication, 2(1), 13-22.
This source discusses cognitive theory in relation to documentary filmmaking and how these types of media can shape the audiences emotions and cognitions. “There is a clear ambition in cognitive theory to try to understand to what extend human phenomena are defined by universal and biological dimensions and how these dimensions interact with and are influenced by social and cultural conditions and historical change” (Bondebjerg, 2014, p. 13). This theory tries not to replace social and cultural studies, but add the assumption that there are biological dimensions that shape our experiencing of reality. Using the cognitive theory as a framework for analyzing case studies of documentary films, such as An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim featuring Al Gore, which has an authoritative structure full of facts and compelling arguments, but also triggers emotional and nostalgic memories through visuals and narrative. This will be a useful source in helping us plan our video’s structure and what imagery and narrative we want to have and to whom will it influence.
Ristovska, S. (2016). Strategic witnessing in an age of video activism. Media, Culture & Society, 38(7), 1034–1047.
This article presents an interesting conceptual framework around how the professionalization of activist documentaries are used as mediums for strategic witnessing and encouraging action and audience responsibility. The argument of the article is that there is a shift towards professionalizing activist videos for specific legal or political audiences that is potentially decreasing pubic cognizance of global ethical violations. This brings an interesting theory into the planning of our video, because we will have to think of our intended audience and what media presentation they resonate most with, but also who we are leaving out of the audience as we choose certain elements. Furthermore, this article deals with the ideas of witnessing as a structure of prompting action and responsibility, which is relevant for our project as well.
Professor Vooris’ lecture explored the realm of food and the LGBTQ+ community. The history that Professor Vooris covered really stood out to me because I did not have much prior knowledge of this field of study. For instance, potluck dinners were and continue to be vital to the LGBTQ+ community because these dinners act as spaces of safety and conversation. They bring people together to create changes and to discuss the changes that people want to see done. Overall, this reminded me that food is more than sustenance, it is also political and so much more.
Niñez, Vera, “Household-level food production”, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol. 7, no.3. 1985. Retrieved from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/156482658500700306
This article discusses both the historical and cultural significance of home gardening, comparing it to other local methods of food production as a way of showing its necessity in terms of food security. This article will act as a great resource for my group’s project because it provides a background for why it is essential to growing food in small places. In addition, it discusses how smaller gardens fit into economics and nutrition.
Perini, Katia, et al. “Vertical Greening Systems, a Process Tree for Green Façades and Living Walls.” Urban Ecosystems., vol. 16, no. 2, Chapman & Hall, June 2013, pp. 265–77, doi:10.1007/s11252-012-0262-3.
This article takes a broader approach to our group’s topic by discussing the capacity for food production in a larger system such as a city by creating vertical greening systems. This article discusses the different applications of urban food production, discussing green roofs, façades and living wall systems. This article is helpful because it broadens the scope of the project. Although we intend to use Carlisle as the audience of our project, it is important to see how the concept of vertical food production can be adapted to a larger-scale system and the creative ways in which that is being accomplished.
For my part of the research project, I will be investigating the issue of inclusivity in relation to community gardens and will find case studies where local government initiatives helped to implement or support gardening.
T.D. Glover et al. “Association, Sociability, and Civic Culture: The Democratic Effect of Community Gardening”. Leisure Sciences, 2005. Accessed February 20, 2020.
In this article, the authors discuss how community gardening contributes to democratic values. The authors quote De Tocqueville, a political philosopher who believed that voluntary associations foster contributions to civic engagement. Additional benefits from this type of contribution can lead to increased political participation, displaying empathy for others, and whether a leader or not within the garden, the individuals volunteering exhibit leadership skills and responsibilities. Furthermore, voluntary associations produce developmental effects because they cultivate individual autonomy. In a community garden, individuals are working together towards a common goal of improving their community. In the process, they are sharing resources, seeds, materials, etc. For many, the experience of gardening serves as a powerful example of how to become an active member within your own community.
White, Monica. “Sisters of the Soil: Urban Gardening as Resistance in Detroit”. Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, vol. 5, no.1., Indiana University Press, 2011. Accessed February 20, 2020. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/racethmulglocon.5.1.13
This article analyzes a group of black women activists who participate in urban gardening and agriculture as a way to reclaim personal power and a sense of agency over their food choices. The setting is Detroit which as a whole is struggling with poverty related challenges due to the decline of industry and a shrinking middle class. Nationally, African American majority communities live on average 1.1 miles further from a supermarket. Community gardens have been an initiative to develop community food security which is defined as “all community residents [ability to] obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes community self-reliance and social justice” (15). In Detroit, there is a specific group of women in the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network that use gardening as a form of political agency. Through this opportunity, the women are not only able to help feed their families, but are also able to serve as change agents within their communities.
Briesch, Richard A., et al. “How Does Assortment Affect Grocery Store Choice?” Journal of Marketing Research, vol. 46, no. 2, 2009, pp. 176–189. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20618882. Accessed 20 Feb. 2020.
-This post in particular relates to the fact grocery stores are often chosen based on their assortment of goods that they have in store. I plan on using this study to note the fact that Farmers Markets often have much less variety than in grocery stores purely based on resources and space. Grocery stores have large open spaces with bright lights and have the resources to make their products look as attractive as possible, in addition to having many workers in the store. Farmers Markets often rely on the farmers themselves and whoever they bring(if anyone) to assist them. Farmers each bring their own assortment of products but this cannot often compete with the thousands of products that grocery stores offer.
Francis, Mark, and Lucas Griffith. “The Meaning and Design of Farmers’ Markets as Public Space: An Issue-Based Case Study.” Landscape Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, 2011, pp. 261–279. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43324378. Accessed 20 Feb. 2020.
-This case study dives into specific farmers markets throughout the U.S. and breaks them down to describe their physical characteristics and properties. The study uses pictures and a series of charts to describe the physical layout of various markets and how these layouts are intentionally designed. This piece also describes the fact that Farmer’s markets are places for people and are more interactive spaces than grocery stores.
I first learned about Keswick Creamery during my Freshman year at Dickinson, when I worked for Dining Services at the Juice Box. One of my co-workers was Sara, a chipper mom and homesteader who kept a herd of goats, cows, chickens, and dogs. In 2017 I visited Sara’s home and helped with evening chores a few times during the semester, enjoying fresh cheeses and milk as a reward for my labor. At the time, Sara began her transition away from Dining Services to work full time as a cheesemaker for Keswick and for her own business, Swirly Girl Creamery.
Representing Sweet! at the 2019 Market of Curiosities…you can see Keswick’s booth in the left corner. Julie, Kath, and I became friends during our time at the market.
Julie from Keswick became a good friend in the Carlisle small business sphere after my partner, Kathleen, and I sold our baked goods at a booth next to Keswick’s booth at the 2019 Market of Curiosities. Julie, Kath, and I exchanged goods and spent the day chatting about the landscape of small business and food production in our community.
Outside of the historic Carlisle Theatre, the winter home of FOTS.
Much more recently, I visited Julie at Keswick’s booth at the Farmer’s On The Square Market. I picked up a tub of her dill and onion quark, and took advantage of the opportunity to ask her some questions about her involvement with local food production.
How did you get into cheesemaking? How long have you been producing cheese?
Julie’s response: “I’ve been making cheese for 20 years…I’m a farm girl at heart. Keswick provided me an opportunity to stay on the farm while also practicing and developing something new.”
How does Keswick operate in the market system? Where else do you guys carry product?
Keswick operates at diverse farmers markets in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Maryland, and in the Cumberland valley. As a business, they strive to provide handcrafted artisanal cheeses and dairy products produced in a humane and sustainable manner.
Have things changed a lot within the last few years?
We’ve expanded our markets and product offerings. We’re excited to see what the future holds!
How does Keswick practice sustainable dairy?
All of Keswick’s dairy cows are raised freely on pasture, without any pesticide, herbicide, or fertilizer applications. The cattle are grazed rotationally, and have been since 1990. They are treated humanely, and never undergo tail docking or treatment with rBST. Sara and Mark’s goats and cattle are treated in the same ways, and allow us to bring new varieties of cheeses to market while also supporting another local family farmer.
Links and More:
Farmers On The Square (FOTS)
https://www.farmersonthesquare.com/
Sweet!
https://www.facebook.com/SweetBakedGoodsNL/
Keswick Creamery:
https://www.facebook.com/Keswick-Creamery- 316587556951/,
http://keswickcreamery.com/Home_Page.html
Swirly Girl Creamery:
https://www.facebook.com/Swirly-Girl-Creamery-116826321768866/
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