Promoting Food Systems Paradigm Shifts through Critical Reflexivity: Exploring Interviews as Intervention

Leah Joyner (), Blanca Yagüe and Adrienne Cachelin
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Leah Joyner: Department of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Administration, California State University, Sacramento, CA 95819, USA
Blanca Yagüe: Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Adrienne Cachelin: Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA

Social Sciences, 2023, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-18

Abstract: This article highlights the transformative power of community-engaged research for food sovereignty through an examination of reflexive interviewing and knowledge co-production with community partners. Initially, we connected with an urban Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm to explore farmers’ concerns regarding their export of food from marginalized areas of the city to predominantly affluent neighborhoods. Our response to confirmatory data was to explore CSA members’ interest in subsidizing shares for low-income residents. However, continued fieldwork revealed that similar charity-based approaches implemented by other food-access advocates were perhaps underutilized, given their basis in food security rather than more complex community-driven food sovereignty. Recognizing the need to understand the broader relationship between urban agriculture and food equity in SLC, we set out to research how university scholars can work with community partners and food advocates to advance food justice and sovereignty. Through dialogic methods, we explore how critical reflexivity can be embedded in research protocols such that researchers and interviewees reflect on their own biases, thus shifting the outcomes and research processes. Through a retrospective review of data collection, we highlight interactional strategies to promote critical reflexivity before proposing an interview framework that prompts paradigm shifts towards food sovereignty.

Keywords: food justice; community-engaged research; qualitative research; reflexivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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