title: Narratives of Food Insecurity in Tippecanoe County, Indiana: Economic Constraints in Local Meanings of Hunger.
abstract: Food insecurity and its most extreme form, hunger, have increased exponentially in the United States since 2006. This essay seeks to contribute to our understanding of hunger by attending to the context of the financial crisis as an organizing frame for understanding local meanings of hunger. Within a broader framework of the culture-centered approach (CCA) that works to identify and develop locally rooted solutions to food insecurity, we describe through locally grounded stories of food insecurity the financial climate where large percentages of U.S. households have been cast into poverty because of the crash of an unregulated economy. These local understandings of hunger in the context of the economy offer entry points for organizing a food-insecure coalition that seeks to address the stigma around food insecurity.
authors.affiliation: a Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) , National University of Singapore.
authors.forename: Mohan Jyoti
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Dutta
authors.affiliation: b Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University.
authors.forename: LaReina
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hingson
authors.affiliation: b Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University.
authors.forename: Agaptus
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anaele
authors.affiliation: b Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University.
authors.forename: Soumitro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sen
authors.affiliation: c Department of Anthropology , Purdue University.
authors.forename: Kyle
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D057172:Economic Recession; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005523:Food Supply / Q000191:economics*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D006815:Hunger; D007196:Indiana; D008297:Male; D033262:Narration; D011203:Poverty / Q000191:economics* / Q000523:psychology*; D057545:Social Stigma; D014478:Unemployment / Q000523:psychology