Micah M Trapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 628461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Micah M Trapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Micah M |
| FAMILY NAME | Trapp |
| SIGNATURE | TRAPP M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Memphis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0741-4586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Performing Vegetable Nutrition
School food programs across the United States are plagued by widespread criticism and face urgent calls for reform and public discourse has also become fixated upon "healthy" eating as a means to address a variety of child health problems. Scholars widely challenge the admonishment to eat "healthy" as laden with privilege and recognize the inherent, hegemonic whiteness of contemporary alternative food movements, but few studies have directly exam…
The right to taste
The National School Lunch Program (NLSP) draws on federal poverty guidelines to distribute free, reduced, and full price meals to students throughout the United States. The NSLP aims to provide nutritious meals to students in need, and in 2014, the Community Eligibility Provision expanded food entitlements, allowing high poverty districts to serve all meals free. This study analyzes pilot ethnographic research conducted in an urban elementary sch…
Never had the hand
In a long-term refugee camp with few opportunities for wage labor, giving and receiving become vital mechanisms for finding food to eat. Drawing on mixed-methods research at the Buduburam Liberian refugee camp in Ghana, this article focuses on the ethnographic details of everyday economic life to dismantle dominant narratives that shape current understandings of refugee economies. Exclusion from capitalist narratives and the lack of categories to…
You-Will-Kill-Me-Beans
Despite their nuanced palates and cooking skills, as guests at the humanitarian table, Liberians living at the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana were expected and assumed to adapt to the "tastes of necessity." In the refugee camp, the sensory experiences and pleasures of the taste of liberty-or "luxury"-existed, if at all, as an indicator that one was no longer in need of aid. In this article, I consider how innovations in cooking and taste shape h…
Already in America
This article explores how refugees at the Buduburam Liberian refugee settlement in Ghana constructed and imagined home in and through a place they have never been to—“America.” Drawing on ethnographic examples of homemaking at Buduburam, this article develops the concept of entanglement to show how preferences for and access to the three durable solutions of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees were influenced by centuries of transnati…
What's on the Table
This article examines how nutrition outreach efforts address changing food practices among refugee populations resettled in the United States. Qualitative, ethnographic data for the article is drawn from the author's work with the Food and Nutrition Outreach program for resettled refugees and includes the perspectives of practitioners and refugees. Drawing on anthropological theories on the interplay between social meanings and structures of the …
You-Will-Kill-Me-Beans
Despite their nuanced palates and cooking skills, as guests at the humanitarian table, Liberians living at the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana were expected and assumed to adapt to the "tastes of necessity." In the refugee camp, the sensory experiences and pleasures of the taste of liberty-or "luxury"-existed, if at all, as an indicator that one was no longer in need of aid. In this article, I consider how innovations in cooking and taste shape h…
Never had the hand
In a long-term refugee camp with few opportunities for wage labor, giving and receiving become vital mechanisms for finding food to eat. Drawing on mixed-methods research at the Buduburam Liberian refugee camp in Ghana, this article focuses on the ethnographic details of everyday economic life to dismantle dominant narratives that shape current understandings of refugee economies. Exclusion from capitalist narratives and the lack of categories to…
What's on the Table
This article examines how nutrition outreach efforts address changing food practices among refugee populations resettled in the United States. Qualitative, ethnographic data for the article is drawn from the author's work with the Food and Nutrition Outreach program for resettled refugees and includes the perspectives of practitioners and refugees. Drawing on anthropological theories on the interplay between social meanings and structures of the …
Already in America
This article explores how refugees at the Buduburam Liberian refugee settlement in Ghana constructed and imagined home in and through a place they have never been to—“America.” Drawing on ethnographic examples of homemaking at Buduburam, this article develops the concept of entanglement to show how preferences for and access to the three durable solutions of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees were influenced by centuries of transnati…
What's on the Table
This article examines how nutrition outreach efforts address changing food practices among refugee populations resettled in the United States. Qualitative, ethnographic data for the article is drawn from the author's work with the Food and Nutrition Outreach program for resettled refugees and includes the perspectives of practitioners and refugees. Drawing on anthropological theories on the interplay between social meanings and structures of the …
Already in America
This article explores how refugees at the Buduburam Liberian refugee settlement in Ghana constructed and imagined home in and through a place they have never been to—“America.” Drawing on ethnographic examples of homemaking at Buduburam, this article develops the concept of entanglement to show how preferences for and access to the three durable solutions of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees were influenced by centuries of transnati…
You-Will-Kill-Me-Beans
Despite their nuanced palates and cooking skills, as guests at the humanitarian table, Liberians living at the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana were expected and assumed to adapt to the "tastes of necessity." In the refugee camp, the sensory experiences and pleasures of the taste of liberty-or "luxury"-existed, if at all, as an indicator that one was no longer in need of aid. In this article, I consider how innovations in cooking and taste shape h…
The right to taste
The National School Lunch Program (NLSP) draws on federal poverty guidelines to distribute free, reduced, and full price meals to students throughout the United States. The NSLP aims to provide nutritious meals to students in need, and in 2014, the Community Eligibility Provision expanded food entitlements, allowing high poverty districts to serve all meals free. This study analyzes pilot ethnographic research conducted in an urban elementary sch…
Never had the hand
In a long-term refugee camp with few opportunities for wage labor, giving and receiving become vital mechanisms for finding food to eat. Drawing on mixed-methods research at the Buduburam Liberian refugee camp in Ghana, this article focuses on the ethnographic details of everyday economic life to dismantle dominant narratives that shape current understandings of refugee economies. Exclusion from capitalist narratives and the lack of categories to…
Performing Vegetable Nutrition
School food programs across the United States are plagued by widespread criticism and face urgent calls for reform and public discourse has also become fixated upon "healthy" eating as a means to address a variety of child health problems. Scholars widely challenge the admonishment to eat "healthy" as laden with privilege and recognize the inherent, hegemonic whiteness of contemporary alternative food movements, but few studies have directly exam…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Refugee (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works)