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Learning my lessons from Street Foods

Learning my lessons from Street Foods 326 ELAINE P OWE R 4. Working with others on research projects has its 8. Food research can lead in just about any direction moments of frustration, as well as tremendous you want, from nutrition and health, to muni- benefits. cipal water treatment, to family studies, to global 5. Some projects, especially community based pro- economic policies. jects, take a long time to finish. You may want These are some of the “academic lessons” I have to wait until after you have gotten tenure to start learned in Street Foods. And when I have served dishes these projects – or at least don’t wait until they are to my friends made from the recipes in the book, I have finished to write them up! had great stories to tell about street vendors in devel- 6. All research is political. Decide whose “side” you oping countries and the impact Dr. Tinker has had on what to be on because that will affect the whole policies and programs that have improved their lives. research process. 7. Ideas are powerful and can lead to social change. Address for correspondence: Elaine Power, Dept. of Public This gives academics a particular burden to think http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Learning my lessons from Street Foods

Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 16 (3) – Oct 1, 2004

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
ISSN
0889-048X
eISSN
1572-8366
DOI
10.1023/A:1007553210766
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326 ELAINE P OWE R 4. Working with others on research projects has its 8. Food research can lead in just about any direction moments of frustration, as well as tremendous you want, from nutrition and health, to muni- benefits. cipal water treatment, to family studies, to global 5. Some projects, especially community based pro- economic policies. jects, take a long time to finish. You may want These are some of the “academic lessons” I have to wait until after you have gotten tenure to start learned in Street Foods. And when I have served dishes these projects – or at least don’t wait until they are to my friends made from the recipes in the book, I have finished to write them up! had great stories to tell about street vendors in devel- 6. All research is political. Decide whose “side” you oping countries and the impact Dr. Tinker has had on what to be on because that will affect the whole policies and programs that have improved their lives. research process. 7. Ideas are powerful and can lead to social change. Address for correspondence: Elaine Power, Dept. of Public This gives academics a particular burden to think

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Published: Oct 1, 2004

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