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Gina K Thornburg, PhD

Rural Geography +8

Supervisors: Max Lu, Gerad Middendorf, and Robert K. Schaeffer

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Papers

Mental Health and Well-Being in Geography: Creating a Healthy Discipline Report of the AAG Task Force on Mental Health (2015-2018)

Embeddedness, Marketness, and Economic Instrumentalism in the Oklahoma Farm-to-School Program

U.S. farm-to-school (FTS) projects and programs promote the incorporation of locally or regionall... more U.S. farm-to-school (FTS) projects and programs promote the incorporation of locally or regionally produced food, primarily fresh fruits and vegetables, in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), a feeding program that relies on federal reimbursements and long, industrialized supply chains. FTS encourages the formation of hybrid agrifood networks that utilize shortened supply chains. This research builds upon and expands current FTS research because it examines the experiences, motivations, practices, and perceptions of farmers in a U.S. state in which FTS is facilitated by a state law. The state's promotion of FTS has reached many Oklahoma farmers through meetings with the program administrator. Some farmers have chosen to participate, while others have not. Differences in the scale of farming operations may be important in this choice. The perspectives and experiences of Oklahoma farmers vis-a-vis the state's FTS program reveals structural incompatibilities between the N...

The Shop-Locally Discourse in Jefferson County

ABSTRACT-Inhabitants in the villages of Jefferson County, Kansas, respond to socioeconomic change... more ABSTRACT-Inhabitants in the villages of Jefferson County, Kansas, respond to socioeconomic changes in a variety of ways. Empirical research conducted in 2004 revealed multiple discourses that constituted such responses. The shop-locally discourse emerged in structured interviews, newspaper articles, and newspaper advertisements as an emblem of socioeconomic empowerment. Discourse was analyzed within its context and interpreted to provide some insight into residents ' responses to change. The discourse revealed not only nostalgia for formerly vibrant commercial districts but also the importance of economic vitality to social life. Shopping locally today, however, will not restore yesteryear's social milieu. The proximity of midsize cities in adjacent counties pulls the economic lifeblood out of Jefferson County, transforming the villages into bedroom communities. If their economies are to be revitalized, inhabitants will need to become more thoughtful and creative agents of...

Who benefits?: the intersection of governance and agency in farmers’ engagement with the Oklahoma Farm to School Program

Farm-to-school (FTS) programs are promoted as direct-marketing opportunities for farmers. As such... more Farm-to-school (FTS) programs are promoted as direct-marketing opportunities for farmers. As such, they are regarded by advocates and state and federal agencies as a pathway to rural economic development. The implementation of FTS food procurement poses significant challenges, however. Farmers make decisions regarding whether or not to market products to schools after learning about the program and considering an array of signals from multiscalar policies and governance structures. Research to date has left a gap in understanding farmers’ agency as it relates to governance structures and policy signals. This research on farmers’ engagement with the Oklahoma FTS Program contributes evidence to bridge this gap by examining the experiences not only of producers who participated in a FTS program but also of those who ceased participation or who chose not to participate. Employing a phronetic approach to social science, this explanatory, sequential, mixed-methods case study obtained quantitative and textual data from a mail survey, as well as data from two stints of qualitative fieldwork, in fall 2011 and fall 2012, which involved semistructured interviews and participant observation. Archival research completed the study methods used to gain a deeper understanding of farmers’ perspectives, practices, values, and experiences that informed their decisions to participate or not in a top-down-administered FTS program. Data collection was driven by the concept of farmers’ engagement. As such, eight categories of farmers’ engagement with the Oklahoma Farm to School Program emerged. This research answers these value-rational questions (Flyvbjerg, 2001): (1) Which farmers gain, and which farmers lose, by which mechanisms of power? (2) Is this desirable? (3) What should be done? Results provide evidence of geographically uneven development of a FTS program and incompatibilities between small- to midscale farming and the structure and governance of federal child-nutrition programs.

The Shop-Locally Discourse in Jefferson County Kansas

Inhabitants in the villages of Jefferson County, Kansas, respond to socioeconomic changes in a va... more Inhabitants in the villages of Jefferson County, Kansas, respond to socioeconomic changes in a variety of ways. Empirical research conducted in 2004 revealed multiple discourses that constituted such responses. The shop-locally discourse emerged in structured interviews, newspaper articles, and newspaper advertisements as an emblem of socioeconomic empowerment. Discourse was analyzed within its context and interpreted to provide some insight into residents' responses to change. The discourse revealed not only nostalgia for formerly vibrant commercial districts but also the importance of economic vitality to social life. Shopping locally today, however, will not restore yesteryear's social milieu. The proximity of midsize cities in adjacent counties pulls the economic lifeblood out of Jefferson County, transforming the villages into bedroom communities. If their economies are to be revitalized, inhabitants will need to become more thoughtful and creative agents of change with...

Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In K. Kennedy White, America Goes Green: An Encyclopedia of Eco-Friendly Culture in the United States. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO

Thornburg, Gina K. (2013). Embeddedness, Marketness, and Economic Instrumentalism in the Oklahoma Farm-to-School Program. Journal of Rural and Community Development, 8(3)

ABSTRACT

Mental Health and Well-Being in Geography: Creating a Healthy Discipline Report of the AAG Task Force on Mental Health (2015-2018

We Put Their Faces in It0001

The Progressive, 1996

Embeddedness, Marketness, and Economic Instrumentalism in the Oklahoma Farm-to-School Program

Perceptions of economic and population change in four small Kansas towns

The Shop-Locally Discourse in Jefferson County Kansas

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Nina L. Etkin: Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food: The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 2006, 301 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-2093-0 and …

Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics, Jan 1, 2011

Simple Justice in LA

Groundbreaking at Livermore Lab

Leaning on Levi's

Koreatown's Workers Find a Voice

The Progressive, Jan 1, 1998

Поиск в библиотеке, Расширенный поиск. ...

Thesis Chapters

Who benefits?: The intersection of governance and agency in farmers' engagement with the Oklahoma Farm to School Program

Farm-to-school (FTS) programs are promoted as direct-marketing opportunities for farmers. As such... more Farm-to-school (FTS) programs are promoted as direct-marketing opportunities for farmers. As such, they are regarded by advocates and state and federal agencies as a pathway to rural economic development. The implementation of FTS food procurement poses significant challenges, however. Farmers make decisions regarding whether or not to market products to schools after learning about the program and considering an array of signals from multiscalar policies and governance structures. Research to date has left a gap in understanding farmers’ agency as it relates to governance structures and policy signals. This research on farmers’ engagement with the Oklahoma FTS Program contributes evidence to bridge this gap by examining the experiences not only of producers who participated in a FTS program but also of those who ceased participation or who chose not to participate. Employing a phronetic approach to social science, this explanatory, sequential, mixed-methods case study obtained quantitative and textual data from a mail survey, as well as data from two stints of qualitative fieldwork, in fall 2011 and fall 2012, which involved semistructured interviews and participant observation. Archival research completed the study methods used to gain a deeper understanding of farmers’ perspectives, practices, values, and experiences that informed their decisions to participate or not in a top-down-administered FTS program. Data collection was driven by the concept of farmers’ engagement. As such, eight categories of farmers’ engagement with the Oklahoma Farm to School Program emerged. This research answers these value-rational questions (Flyvbjerg, 2001): (1) Which farmers gain, and which farmers lose, by which mechanisms of power? (2) Is this desirable? (3) What should be done? Results provide evidence of geographically uneven development of a FTS program and incompatibilities between small- to midscale farming and the structure and governance of federal child-nutrition programs.

Mental Health and the Academy

2018. "Mental Health and Well-Being in Geography: Creating a Healthy Discipline". Report of the AAG Task Force on Mental Health (2015-2018), 76pp.

by Linda J Peake, Gina K Thornburg, PhD, and Deborah Metzel

Mental Health and Well-Being in Geography: Creating a Healthy Discipline Report of the AAG Task Force on Mental Health (2015-2018)

Embeddedness, Marketness, and Economic Instrumentalism in the Oklahoma Farm-to-School Program

U.S. farm-to-school (FTS) projects and programs promote the incorporation of locally or regionall... more U.S. farm-to-school (FTS) projects and programs promote the incorporation of locally or regionally produced food, primarily fresh fruits and vegetables, in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), a feeding program that relies on federal reimbursements and long, industrialized supply chains. FTS encourages the formation of hybrid agrifood networks that utilize shortened supply chains. This research builds upon and expands current FTS research because it examines the experiences, motivations, practices, and perceptions of farmers in a U.S. state in which FTS is facilitated by a state law. The state's promotion of FTS has reached many Oklahoma farmers through meetings with the program administrator. Some farmers have chosen to participate, while others have not. Differences in the scale of farming operations may be important in this choice. The perspectives and experiences of Oklahoma farmers vis-a-vis the state's FTS program reveals structural incompatibilities between the N...

The Shop-Locally Discourse in Jefferson County

ABSTRACT-Inhabitants in the villages of Jefferson County, Kansas, respond to socioeconomic change... more ABSTRACT-Inhabitants in the villages of Jefferson County, Kansas, respond to socioeconomic changes in a variety of ways. Empirical research conducted in 2004 revealed multiple discourses that constituted such responses. The shop-locally discourse emerged in structured interviews, newspaper articles, and newspaper advertisements as an emblem of socioeconomic empowerment. Discourse was analyzed within its context and interpreted to provide some insight into residents ' responses to change. The discourse revealed not only nostalgia for formerly vibrant commercial districts but also the importance of economic vitality to social life. Shopping locally today, however, will not restore yesteryear's social milieu. The proximity of midsize cities in adjacent counties pulls the economic lifeblood out of Jefferson County, transforming the villages into bedroom communities. If their economies are to be revitalized, inhabitants will need to become more thoughtful and creative agents of...

Who benefits?: the intersection of governance and agency in farmers’ engagement with the Oklahoma Farm to School Program

Farm-to-school (FTS) programs are promoted as direct-marketing opportunities for farmers. As such... more Farm-to-school (FTS) programs are promoted as direct-marketing opportunities for farmers. As such, they are regarded by advocates and state and federal agencies as a pathway to rural economic development. The implementation of FTS food procurement poses significant challenges, however. Farmers make decisions regarding whether or not to market products to schools after learning about the program and considering an array of signals from multiscalar policies and governance structures. Research to date has left a gap in understanding farmers’ agency as it relates to governance structures and policy signals. This research on farmers’ engagement with the Oklahoma FTS Program contributes evidence to bridge this gap by examining the experiences not only of producers who participated in a FTS program but also of those who ceased participation or who chose not to participate. Employing a phronetic approach to social science, this explanatory, sequential, mixed-methods case study obtained quantitative and textual data from a mail survey, as well as data from two stints of qualitative fieldwork, in fall 2011 and fall 2012, which involved semistructured interviews and participant observation. Archival research completed the study methods used to gain a deeper understanding of farmers’ perspectives, practices, values, and experiences that informed their decisions to participate or not in a top-down-administered FTS program. Data collection was driven by the concept of farmers’ engagement. As such, eight categories of farmers’ engagement with the Oklahoma Farm to School Program emerged. This research answers these value-rational questions (Flyvbjerg, 2001): (1) Which farmers gain, and which farmers lose, by which mechanisms of power? (2) Is this desirable? (3) What should be done? Results provide evidence of geographically uneven development of a FTS program and incompatibilities between small- to midscale farming and the structure and governance of federal child-nutrition programs.

The Shop-Locally Discourse in Jefferson County Kansas

Inhabitants in the villages of Jefferson County, Kansas, respond to socioeconomic changes in a va... more Inhabitants in the villages of Jefferson County, Kansas, respond to socioeconomic changes in a variety of ways. Empirical research conducted in 2004 revealed multiple discourses that constituted such responses. The shop-locally discourse emerged in structured interviews, newspaper articles, and newspaper advertisements as an emblem of socioeconomic empowerment. Discourse was analyzed within its context and interpreted to provide some insight into residents' responses to change. The discourse revealed not only nostalgia for formerly vibrant commercial districts but also the importance of economic vitality to social life. Shopping locally today, however, will not restore yesteryear's social milieu. The proximity of midsize cities in adjacent counties pulls the economic lifeblood out of Jefferson County, transforming the villages into bedroom communities. If their economies are to be revitalized, inhabitants will need to become more thoughtful and creative agents of change with...

Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In K. Kennedy White, America Goes Green: An Encyclopedia of Eco-Friendly Culture in the United States. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO

Thornburg, Gina K. (2013). Embeddedness, Marketness, and Economic Instrumentalism in the Oklahoma Farm-to-School Program. Journal of Rural and Community Development, 8(3)

ABSTRACT

Mental Health and Well-Being in Geography: Creating a Healthy Discipline Report of the AAG Task Force on Mental Health (2015-2018

We Put Their Faces in It0001

The Progressive, 1996

Embeddedness, Marketness, and Economic Instrumentalism in the Oklahoma Farm-to-School Program

Perceptions of economic and population change in four small Kansas towns

The Shop-Locally Discourse in Jefferson County Kansas

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Nina L. Etkin: Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food: The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 2006, 301 pp., ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-2093-0 and …

Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics, Jan 1, 2011

Simple Justice in LA

Groundbreaking at Livermore Lab

Leaning on Levi's

Koreatown's Workers Find a Voice

The Progressive, Jan 1, 1998

Поиск в библиотеке, Расширенный поиск. ...

Who benefits?: The intersection of governance and agency in farmers' engagement with the Oklahoma Farm to School Program

Farm-to-school (FTS) programs are promoted as direct-marketing opportunities for farmers. As such... more Farm-to-school (FTS) programs are promoted as direct-marketing opportunities for farmers. As such, they are regarded by advocates and state and federal agencies as a pathway to rural economic development. The implementation of FTS food procurement poses significant challenges, however. Farmers make decisions regarding whether or not to market products to schools after learning about the program and considering an array of signals from multiscalar policies and governance structures. Research to date has left a gap in understanding farmers’ agency as it relates to governance structures and policy signals. This research on farmers’ engagement with the Oklahoma FTS Program contributes evidence to bridge this gap by examining the experiences not only of producers who participated in a FTS program but also of those who ceased participation or who chose not to participate. Employing a phronetic approach to social science, this explanatory, sequential, mixed-methods case study obtained quantitative and textual data from a mail survey, as well as data from two stints of qualitative fieldwork, in fall 2011 and fall 2012, which involved semistructured interviews and participant observation. Archival research completed the study methods used to gain a deeper understanding of farmers’ perspectives, practices, values, and experiences that informed their decisions to participate or not in a top-down-administered FTS program. Data collection was driven by the concept of farmers’ engagement. As such, eight categories of farmers’ engagement with the Oklahoma Farm to School Program emerged. This research answers these value-rational questions (Flyvbjerg, 2001): (1) Which farmers gain, and which farmers lose, by which mechanisms of power? (2) Is this desirable? (3) What should be done? Results provide evidence of geographically uneven development of a FTS program and incompatibilities between small- to midscale farming and the structure and governance of federal child-nutrition programs.

2018. "Mental Health and Well-Being in Geography: Creating a Healthy Discipline". Report of the AAG Task Force on Mental Health (2015-2018), 76pp.

by Linda J Peake, Gina K Thornburg, PhD, and Deborah Metzel