A creative response to food issues during the Covid-19 lockdown: Singing over the anger

Pettinger, Clare

doi:10.32920/cd.v5i3.1434

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“…Collage (or visual mind mapping) is an important arts-based method for engagement and empowerment (109,110) , which utilizes sought images and objects to foster the process of de-construction in the tearing, cutting and gluing of images and objects (96) . Music/song communicates expressively as a deeply reflexive tool (111) and can, within food justice discourses, enhance political potency, 'providing meaning to express things we don't know how to articulate in words' (112) . Finally, documentary filmmaking has a rich history in humanities research and successful documentary films use compelling stories to influence positive individual and environmental changes (113) .…”

Section: Participatory Methods With Foodmentioning

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Engaging with ‘less affluent’ communities for food system transformation: a community food researcher model (FoodSEqual project)

Pettinger,

Hunt,

Gardiner

et al. 2023

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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The UK food system is distorted by inequalities in access, failing the people most in need, yet it should provide access to safe, nutritious affordable food for all citizens. Dietary patterns are associated with sociodemographic characteristics, with high levels of diet-related disease mortality attributed to poor dietary habits. Disadvantaged UK communities face urgent public health challenges, yet area often treated as powerless recipients of dietary and health initiatives. The need for food system transformation has been illustrated within recent UK government policy drivers and research funding. The Food Systems Equality project1 is a research consortium that aims to ‘co-produce healthy and sustainable food systems for disadvantaged communities’. The project focusses on innovating food products, supply chains and policies, placing communities at the center of the change. Tackling the above issues requires new ways of working. Creative approaches in food research are known to empower a wider range of individuals to share their ‘lived food experience’ narratives, building relationships and corroborating co-production philosophies, thus promoting social justice, and challenging more traditional positivist/reductionist ‘biomedical’ approaches for nutrition and food studies. This review paper critiques the use of community-centric approaches for food system transformation, focusing on one, a community food researcher model 1 as an exemplar, to highlight their utility in advocating with rather than for less affluent communities. The potential for creative methods to lead to more equitable and lasting solutions for food system transformation is appraised, consolidating the need for community driven systemic change to foster more progressive and inclusive approaches to strengthen social capital. The paper closes with practice insights and critical considerations offering recommendations for readers, researchers, and practitioners, enabling them to better understand and apply similar approaches.

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Section: Participatory Methods With Foodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging with ‘less affluent’ communities for food system transformation: a community food researcher model (FoodSEqual project)

Pettinger,

Hunt,

Gardiner

et al. 2023

Proc. Nutr. Soc.

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MUSICOVID-19: When the world paused but singing continued

Sandt

Coppi

2021

International Journal of Community Music

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The COVID-19 pandemic was unexpected and changed most aspects of our lives in a very short period; it led to surprising and unexpected experiences and changes for most people. To cope with these changes and hardship, Italians turned to songs as a medium of emotional and communicative expression. The songs that resounded from the windows, balconies, and homes of families came from the past and the present, connecting generations and serving as a medium to strengthen people’s individual and collective resilience. This study offers a reflection of qualitative research using a phenomenological approach on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the practical musical experience of local communities from a Transformative, Lifelong, and Intergenerational Learning perspective. Purposeful sampling for this study was conducted through invitations to choral- and music associations for families to volunteer to participate in the study. Of the more than 30 families who volunteered, 82 individuals from 15 families in the provinces of Emilia Romagna (n=50) and South Tyrol (n=32), Italy, best met the sampling criteria. The methodology relied on semi-structured interviews as a research tool, accompanied by a thematic analysis of the narratives according to the aforementioned perspectives. The results show that participants used communal singing and music-making as important forms of helping, caring and sharing. This demonstrates the positive role of shared music-making and singing in improving wellbeing and promoting various forms of learning during social isolation COVID-19.

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A creative response to food issues during the Covid-19 lockdown: Singing over the anger

Cited by 2 publications

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Engaging with ‘less affluent’ communities for food system transformation: a community food researcher model (FoodSEqual project)

Engaging with ‘less affluent’ communities for food system transformation: a community food researcher model (FoodSEqual project)

MUSICOVID-19: When the world paused but singing continued

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