Annie Koempel
Biographic Data
| ID | 907489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annie Koempel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annie |
| FAMILY NAME | Koempel |
| SIGNATURE | KOEMPEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Board of Family Medicine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4046-2029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“We didn’t used to be corporate medicine”
Minding the gaps in frayed systems of health and care
“She’s Afraid of Gaining Weight and Losing Her Husband”
This study uncovers the ways rural Appalachian Kentuckians adopt disordered eating patterns in highly motivated attempts to lose weight. The author engages with affective political ecology to explore what disordered eating is, what might produce it, and what it produces in others. This study utilized a mixed-methods approach. Pre-surveys (June 2020; n = 182) and post-surveys (March 2021; n = 56) included the twenty-six-question Eating Attitudes T…
“Whoever Needs Food We’ll Feed Them One Way or the Other”
In one eastern Kentucky county, the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic downturn ushered in increases in federal and corporate aid. In response, families with school-aged children distributed excess food to friends and neighbors and donated food back to pantries they had previously utilized. In-depth, semi-structured interviews illuminate how public-private food aid amidst the COVID-19 pandemic was distributed to and within rural Kentucky comm…
People Around Here Like Their Fruits and Vegetables
This article explores community-based food production and sharing practices in eastern Kentucky that are often obscured by dominant neoliberal paradigms and market-based solutions. I begin with an orientation to eastern Kentucky, which is nestled in the mountains of central Appalachia, and its history of economic precarity and subsistence. Next I introduce my methods, followed by discussions of food sovereignty. Through the presentation of ethnog…
Mountains of Abundance
This note presents the results of interviews with twenty-five participants in a fruit and vegetable walking program in Central Appalachia. Individuals joined and used the program for a number of diverse reasons, most commonly with the hope of improving their health. Participants also valued the abundance of food and social opportunities. Overall, participants enjoyed the program and utilized it in ways that funders and evidence-based medicine (EB…
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Mountains of Abundance
This note presents the results of interviews with twenty-five participants in a fruit and vegetable walking program in Central Appalachia. Individuals joined and used the program for a number of diverse reasons, most commonly with the hope of improving their health. Participants also valued the abundance of food and social opportunities. Overall, participants enjoyed the program and utilized it in ways that funders and evidence-based medicine (EB…
“She’s Afraid of Gaining Weight and Losing Her Husband”
This study uncovers the ways rural Appalachian Kentuckians adopt disordered eating patterns in highly motivated attempts to lose weight. The author engages with affective political ecology to explore what disordered eating is, what might produce it, and what it produces in others. This study utilized a mixed-methods approach. Pre-surveys (June 2020; n = 182) and post-surveys (March 2021; n = 56) included the twenty-six-question Eating Attitudes T…
“Whoever Needs Food We’ll Feed Them One Way or the Other”
In one eastern Kentucky county, the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic downturn ushered in increases in federal and corporate aid. In response, families with school-aged children distributed excess food to friends and neighbors and donated food back to pantries they had previously utilized. In-depth, semi-structured interviews illuminate how public-private food aid amidst the COVID-19 pandemic was distributed to and within rural Kentucky comm…
People Around Here Like Their Fruits and Vegetables
This article explores community-based food production and sharing practices in eastern Kentucky that are often obscured by dominant neoliberal paradigms and market-based solutions. I begin with an orientation to eastern Kentucky, which is nestled in the mountains of central Appalachia, and its history of economic precarity and subsistence. Next I introduce my methods, followed by discussions of food sovereignty. Through the presentation of ethnog…
“We didn’t used to be corporate medicine”
Minding the gaps in frayed systems of health and care
Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Appalachia (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Business (2 works)