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Genre/Form: | Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicolas Larchet; Christian Topalov; Dominique Memmi; Pap NDiaye; Anne M Lovell; Érik Neveu; Didier Torny; École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris).; École doctorale de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales.; Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France). Groupement de recherche (7217). |
OCLC Number: | 1131097707 |
Description: | 3 vol. (1033 p.) : ill., cartes. ; 30 cm. |
Responsibility: | Nicolas Larchet ; sous la direction de Christian Topalov et de Dominique Memmi. |
Abstract:
The city of New Orleans has been the scene of diverse social experiments in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This dissertation considers the development and implementation of one among many of these reform projects. Carried by a larger social movement at the national level, this particular project aimed at improving access to "healthy foods" in the city's low-income neighborhoods in order to fight the obesity epidemic and to revitalize the local economy. Based on biographical interviews with members of a food policy council charged with studying this public problem, on in-depth analyses of the council's archives and on participant observation of reformers' work, this study questions the making of a common sense: while the authorities had left to die many inhabitants in the wake of the hurricane, why did they subsequently chose to make them live by reforming their eating habits? This study follows the actors and institutions that undertook this project, from its elaboration at the turn of the millennium in a public health research center until its reception by the local authorities and inhabitants in a city profoundly transformed by the early 2010s. It finally reveals the social conditions of possibility of this experiment and its unintended consequences: all the while mis-diagnosising the problem and missing their target, food reformers nevertheless achieved their main objective by contributing to changing the city's inhabitants rather than changing their habits.
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- Ouragan Katrina (2005).
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- Santé publique -- États-Unis -- La Nouvelle-Orléans (La.).
- Biopolitique.
- Conditions sociales -- La Nouvelle-Orléans (La.) -- 21e siècle.
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- Obésité
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