9th Annual WML Academic Symposium

Time: 2:00
Room: 224
Presenter(s): Caroline Wilson
Title: Enabling & Constraining: Structuration Theory in the Campus Kitchen at Ballard University
Developed under the guidance of Dr. J. Dean Farmer , Communication Studies

The Campus Kitchen at Ballard University (CKBU) is a branch of the nationwide Campus Kitchens Project, an organization that promotes innovative, community-based social change strategies. Like all Campus Kitchens, CKBU has secured food reclamation partners, a commercial kitchen in which to prepare meals, and a presence in an impoverished area in their county. Unfortunately, CKBU has struggled to fulfill the Campus Kitchens Project’s mission of going “beyond the meal” to build sustainable relationships with community members. Through the lens of Anthony Giddens’ structuration theory (1979), this paper explores potential barriers to community within CKBU and proposes ways to reverse the effects of these barriers.