Date of Award
5-2005
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Program
Urban Studies
Department
College of Urban and Public Affairs
Major Professor
Ward, Martha
Second Advisor
Gladstone, David
Third Advisor
Ehrenreich, Jeffrey
Abstract
This study evaluates the public market system in New Orleans, Louisiana by focusing on the history of New Orleans public markets, the privatization of food, and the "greening" of the city with the creation of the Crescent City Farmers Market and other grass roots food activist efforts. Using qualitative methods, ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation and interviewing, issues of food access, food security, food production, food locality, quality, and affordability in New Orleans are explored. The history of public markets in New Orleans and the patterns of market proliferation, regulation, and privatization are significant in the landscape of cultural self-identification, community cohesion, neighborhood networks and economic and ecological development and sustainability. The city's various food shopping arenas and their locations become markers of history, status, rebellion, and of the "other," and become centers for issues of health, economy, politics, and food.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Nicole, "The Public Market System of New Orleans: Food Deserts, Food Security, and Food Politics" (2005). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 250.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/250
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