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[‘Race and Gender' Special Lecture Series 14] Migrant and Diasporic Women's Experiences with Food and Water Insecurity: Evidence from Community-based Collaborative Research in the US-Mexico Borderlands

Date & Time: October 15 (Thursday) 11am (KST)

Location: Yeonghak-gwan (영학관), Room 101

Pre-registration: https://forms.gle/yuwmmxSvCpf4Jzdn7

Speaker: Prof. Megan A. Carney (Professor of Anthropology, Director of Center for Regional Food Studies, University of Arizona)

Bio: 

Megan A. Carney is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Regional Food Studies at the University of Arizona. As a feminist medical and sociocultural anthropologist, she specializes in critical migration and diaspora studies, food and water insecurity, migrant health, and the politics of care and solidarity. She conducts collaborative ethnographic research in the borderlands of the southwestern United States and the central Mediterranean. She is the author of two award-winning books and president-elect of the Association for Feminist Anthropology.

Abstract:

In this talk, Carney will present findings from ongoing community-based collaborative research on compounding resource insecurities and gendered vulnerabilities in the borderlands region of southern Arizona, located in the southwestern United States and home to the second deadliest border crossing in the world. As this region's desert-dwelling population grapples with perpetual drought and extreme heat — conditions exacerbated by climate change — low-income households and communities in particular are struggling with food and water insecurity. Contrary to myths about resource security in the global North, findings from this research underscore current realities and the disproportionate effects for women as they navigate multiple forms of marginalization while also being charged with responsibility for resource provisioning and management. This talk will interrogate the processes of racialized gendered violence that position some populations on the frontlines of environmental crises and contemplate the future of a gendered division of labor that has undergirded social reproduction and shaped responses to resource insecurities.