2021 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Corporate food-regimes, food-politics and wellbeing: Deskilling the urban poor in the Global South
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20F20304
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
LOPEZ Mario 京都大学, 東南アジア地域研究研究所, 准教授 (70527639)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
RUIZ TAFOYA HERIBERTO 京都大学, 東南アジア地域研究研究所, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-11-13 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | Packaged Food / Food Patterns / Food Skills / Cooking / Urban Poor / Metro Manila / Mexico City |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
A peer-review paper entitled “Governmentality in the Time of COVID-19: the use of Corporate Packaged Food as an instrument for tension management in Metro Manila” published at journal Social Theory and Dynamics 3: 87-104. ISSN 2432-8464. The applicant also presented at two international conferences, three international seminar sessions and three talks.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
To prepare the fieldwork research and research tools, from March to June, 2021 12 interviews were held with Mexican and Filipinas housewives in Japan. From July to August, 2021 qualified researchers in Manila and Mexico City were employed and trained. From September to December 2021 data was collected from 60 families in poor urban neighborhoods on the peripheries of Metro Manila and Mexico City. Data were collected according to the research plan and protocol for health alerts in both metropolises. Translation from Tagalog to English was completed in the first weeks of January 2021. This set of data includes audio, photos and videos of cooking space (the kitchen), stoves, utensils, containers, food preparation, food storage, corporate food brands, etc.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Currently, we have begun data analysis and specifically, the Manila data have been used to make revisions to the book manuscript that was previously submitted to Ateneo de Manila Press and Kyoto University Press. The revised manuscript will be submitted by the end of May 2021. Two of the manuscript chapters related to food consumption (structural conditions, food situations and food patterns) will serve for the first comparative paper, Manila-Mexico City. In parallel, data on purchasing, cooking and service will be used to revise the hypotheses to situate them in the theoretical discussions on Corporate Food Consumption and the skilling/deskilling of urban poor.
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