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000007602 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.6083/b5644s14n
000007602 037__ $$aETD
000007602 245__ $$aFood consulting confidential: neoliberalism in Silicon Valley food and technology culture
000007602 260__ $$bOregon Health and Science University
000007602 269__ $$a2019
000007602 336__ $$aThesis
000007602 502__ $$bM.S.
000007602 502__ $$gFood Systems & Society
000007602 520__ $$aCapitalism in the United States encourages entrepreneurs to participate in the food system with prospects of amassing wealth. However, starting a food company is no easy task given the limited access to resources and the social inequities and oppression that serve as barriers of entry. This thesis investigates Silicon Valley's food and technology (tech) culture in its current state, asking whether and how it is upholding social inequities and injustices through neoliberalism and oppression. Using critical inquiry and content analysis, I examine how Silicon Valley maintains power among elites by controlling or influencing the conditions of production necessary to produce food and tech. In addressing the social issues that condition opportunity in Silicon Valley's food and tech culture, I turn to food democracy as a means to distribute power and voice back to the people by decreasing barriers of entry into food entrepreneurship. My findings show there is some success among current efforts to engage with food democracy in various formats. I suggest the positioning of social entrepreneurship in discourse and practice as creating a community that strives for social equity through the redistribution of resources. The hope of this thesis is to encourage more research and development in finding new innovations that enhance food democracy and construct a new culture in the food and tech landscape that addresses social inequities and oppression.
000007602 650__ $$aSocial Justice$$026110
000007602 650__ $$aEconomics$$018190
000007602 6531_ $$asocial entrepreneurship
000007602 6531_ $$aliberalism
000007602 6531_ $$aoppression
000007602 691__ $$aSchool of Medicine$$041369
000007602 692__ $$aGraduate Programs in Human Nutrition
000007602 7001_ $$aChau, Brian
000007602 8564_ $$9ddb6be33-578f-4462-9b50-5dc7187a6ebc$$s327104$$uhttps://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/7602/files/Chau__2019__Food_Consulting_Confidential_-_Neoliberalism_in_Silicon_Valley_food_and_technology_culture.pdf
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000007602 909CO $$ooai:digitalcollections.ohsu.edu:7602$$pstudent-work
000007602 980__ $$aFood Systems & Society