scholarly journals Family and Social Context Contributes to the Interplay of Economic Insecurity, Food Insecurity, and Health

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBIN T. HIGASHI ◽  
SIMON CRADDOCK LEE ◽  
CARLA PEZZIA ◽  
LISA QUIRK ◽  
TAMMY LEONARD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Economic Insecurity

Involuntary Displacement and Human Security: A Study of the Kaptai Dam in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun Kumar Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Free Market Economy ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Involuntary Displacement

Involuntary displacement caused by development projects has become a great concern in the present era of the free market economy across the globe. There has been extensive research on involuntary displacement; however, it was confined to subjects like anthropology, sociology, and development studies earlier. However, after the 1990s, a very useful theoretical approach to human security is evolving in analyzing the effects of involuntary displacement caused by a number of reasons. Studying the case of the Kaptai Dam of Bangladesh, the study shows that it has brought a broad range of human insecurities into focus—like economic insecurity, food insecurity, health insecurity, environmental insecurity, community insecurity, personal insecurity, and political insecurity. Hence, the paper has suggested for the application of human security approach as a useful tool for researchers while studying the global problems of involuntary displacement.

scholarly journals Physical Disability and Older Adults’ Perceived Food and Economic Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinae L Choi ◽  
Deborah Carr ◽  
Eun Ha Namkung
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
Medical Bills

Abstract Objectives We examined whether older adults with physical disability were vulnerable to three types of perceived economic insecurity (difficulty paying regular bills, difficulty paying medical bills, income loss) and two types of perceived food insecurity (economic obstacles, logistical obstacles) during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. We evaluated the extent to which associations are moderated by three personal characteristics (age, sex, race/ethnicity) and two pandemic-specific risk factors (job loss, COVID-19 diagnosis). Methods Data are from a random 25 percent subsample of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) participants who completed a COVID-19 module introduced in June 2020. We estimated logistic regression models to predict each of five self-reported hardships during the pandemic. Results Bivariate analyses showed that persons with three or more functional limitations were more likely to report both types of food insecurity, and difficulty paying regular and medical bills since the start of the pandemic, relative to those with no limitations. After controlling for health conditions, effects were no longer significant for paying medical bills, and attenuated yet remained statistically significant for other outcomes. Patterns did not differ significantly on the basis of the moderator variables. Job loss substantially increased the risk of economic insecurity but not food insecurity. Discussion Older adults with more functional limitations were vulnerable to economic and food insecurity during the pandemic, potentially exacerbating the physical and emotional health threats imposed by COVID-19. Supports for older adults with disability should focus on logistical as well as financial support for ensuring their food security.

Scaling Worker Cooperatives as an Economic Justice Tool for Communities in Crises

2021 ◽  
pp. 229-248
Author(s):  
Carmen Huertas-Noble ◽  
Missy Risser-Lovings ◽  
Christopher Adams
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Economic Democracy ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Worker Cooperatives

We face a multitude of concurrent crises today acutely manifesting among marginalized communities. Too many lives are threatened by economic insecurity, food insecurity, ubiquitous surveillance, and the constant threat of violence perpetuated or endorsed by the state. All are created by a brutal system that perpetuates itself by controlling the ultimate unrenewable resources—health and time—and are further exacerbated by racial animus. This chapter identifies challenges and responses that attorneys may experience when embracing an integrative lawyering approach in partnership with conceivers of large-scale economic development projects that operationalize principles of economic democracy in the form of cooperatively owned and governed union co-ops that center labor as sovereign and serve as bulwarks against the rapacious excesses of our political and economic systems.

scholarly journals AGING AND THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF FOOD INSECURITY IN AN URBAN MINORITY NEIGHBORHOOD

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. 1201-1201
Author(s):  
A. Costley ◽  
B. Collier ◽  
L. Demarinis ◽  
S. Susseran
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Urban Minority ◽  
The Social ◽  
Minority Neighborhood

Chapter 12 - Modern culinary traditions for precarious times. Food insecurity and everyday practices among poor households in Mexico City

2020 ◽  
pp. 142-150
Author(s):  
Ayari G. Pasquier Merino
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Traditional Food ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Family Expectations ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Food Needs ◽  
Culinary Traditions

This research focused on the food situation of poor households in Mexico City and specifically on women’s coping strategies to meet their families’ food needs under growing economic insecurity. The survey highlighted the cooking techniques used by a group of women to blend commercial ingredients into everyday dishes to satisfy family expectations in terms of taste, appearance, and texture relative to ‘traditional’ food dishes. This chapter shows how these techniques are gradually changing the array of everyday dishes served in Mexico City—a phenomenon described as a process of building ‘modern food traditions for precarious times’.

scholarly journals The social context of food insecurity among persons living with HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda

2011 ◽  
Vol 73 (12) ◽  
pp. 1717-1724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander C. Tsai ◽  
David R. Bangsberg ◽  
Nneka Emenyonu ◽  
Jude K. Senkungu ◽  
Jeffrey N. Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Persons Living With Hiv ◽  
The Social ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

Sociability: Personality, social context, and physical setting.

1985 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1015-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gifford ◽  
Timothy M. Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Physical Setting
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