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Megan Carney

Member of the Graduate Faculty | Director, Center for Regional Food Studies | Associate Professor, Anthropology

School of Anthropology
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About

Megan Carney is a sociocultural and critical medical anthropologist with specializations in global human displacement and migration, the intersections of food and migration, migrant health, reproductive labor and the politics of care, and the affective dimensions of state-sanctioned violence and economic restructuring. Her fieldwork is focused in the western United States and in Italy, specifically Sicily.

Research Area

public health, food insecurity, nutrition, detention centers, migrant subjectivities, feeding practices, trauma, border meals, political ecology, biopolitics

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    Bellante, L. Carney, M.A. Owen, G. 2022 Leveraging university resources to build awareness, support regional food policy, and disrupt dominant narratives guiding food-based development: Examples from the University of Arizona’s Center for Regional Food Studies Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development Advance online publication.

    2022
    food policy, university resources, regional food studies, food-based development, dominant narratives

    A Scoping Review of the Evidence for a Relationshibetween Political Self-Efficacy and Health Self-Efficacy

    2020
    political self-efficacy, health self-efficacy, scoping review, relationship, evidence

    Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Diet-Related Disease as Structural Violence

    2018
    public health, food systems, social inequality, nutrition, policy analysis

    Immigration and Mental Health in the Era of Trump

    2018
    immigration, mental health, politics, social impact, public health

    Ten years after the financial crisis: The long reach of austerity and its global impacts on health

    2017
    financial crisis, austerity, global impacts, health, long reach

    Demedicalizing Health: The Kitchen as a Site of Care

    2017
    healthcare, nutrition, home care, wellness, lifestyle

    Sanctuary Planet: A Global Sanctuary Movement for the Time of Trump

    2017
    global sanctuary movement, trump administration, environmental protection, political resistance, immigration policy

    Back There We Had Nothing to Eat The Case of Transnational Food Insecurity

    2017
    transnational food insecurity, food access, global hunger, poverty and nutrition, food distribution

    Sharing One's Destiny Effects of austerity on migrant health provisioning in the Mediterranean borderlands

    2017
    migrant health, austerity impact, mediterranean borderlands, health provisioning, impact of austerity measures

    Eating and Feeding at the Margins of the State: Barriers to Health Care for Undocumented Migrant Women and the Clinical Aspects of Food Assistance

    2015
    public health, migration, healthcare access, food insecurity, women's health

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    • The Anthropology of Food

    • Race, Racism, and the American Dream

    • Qualitative Research Methods and Proposal Writing

    • Bodies in Medicine: Introduction to Medical Anthropology

    • Many Ways of Being Human: Anthropological Perspective

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