Serenity Hill

Narrative ethnographic study of change in primary food production practices

Serenity is conducting ethnographic research with primary food producers in two case study sites in northern Victoria: Violet Town and Shepparton East.

Fieldwork will be conducted between October 2009 and September 2010, which will involve collecting information from existing documents and statistics about food production and its history and context in each area. A questionnaire will be conducted to collect information about recent change in primary food production practices in each area and people’s views about this change. Her research will also involve public workshops and life history interviews with primary food producers at each site.

Serenity’s research falls into the CRC’s Program 4 research area.

Objectives:

• The purpose of this study is to explore how primary food producers in two sites in Northern Victoria are responding to climate and other complex change
• To contribute to the discourse on resilience theory by exploring its relevance for understanding change in primary food production systems in two localities in North East Victoria
• To contribute to social theory by exploring the application of Bourdieu’s ideas on practice in research on primary food production systems in two localities in Northern Victoria.

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