The Public Market System of New Orleans: Food Deserts, Food Security, and Food Politics

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

College of Urban and Public Affairs

Year

2005

Author dc:creator

• Taylor, Nicole

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ward, Martha
• Gladstone, David
• Ehrenreich, Jeffrey

• New Orleans food access
• Food movements
• Community development
• Food activism
• Regulated free market
• Public health
• Food politics
• Grocery stores
• Farmers market
• Public market
• Food deserts
• Food security

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/250

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1283