{"id":24788,"date":"2020-11-19T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T21:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?post_type=cu_people&p=24788"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T19:17:50","slug":"deborah-komarnisky","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/deborah-komarnisky\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Komarnisky"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I joined the Ph.D. program in Legal Studies with a concentration in Political Economy in the fall of 2019. I focus on consumers and consumption, brand culture, food security, retail and food governance, and discourse analysis. My research specifically focuses on the unique social time we live in, where the price of food has become a crisis, with citizens unable to afford basic groceries. This crisis displays itself through a polylogue discussion between retailers, citizens, and various levels of government within the current context of high inflation and post-Covid-19 life in Canada. The talk, discussion, and chat comprising discourses provide insight into how actors understand and make sense of the crisis, their impact, and how society and governments respond. Research into events and discursive spaces provides insight into how information is shared and how it reflects the norms and values of the participating actors. I seek to map and analyze talk, chat, and discussions about the food pricing crisis by considering who is talking, the content, and the effects. As a central research question, I ask, how is this crisis in food governance articulated in the discourses of the food pricing crisis? This crisis brings into focus the systemic inequalities and food insecurity experienced by Canadians and the need for a regulated food pricing system. How citizens, retailers and governments talk about the crisis reveals how Canadian society is confronting social inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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