Abstract Food insecurity is a significant problem in the U.S., disproportionately impacting people with disabilities. Yet, little scholarship exists about disability and food, particularly on people in institutions, with even less from disabled people’s perspectives. This article presents two ethnographic examples from different types of “community placements.” These first-hand accounts by disabled people explore the shape that food insecurity takes in different institutional group-home settings, and how one balances the competing needs of health and freedom. They demonstrate how notions of power, control, and resistance, and underlying ableist assumptions about “appropriate bodies,” play out on a day-to-day basis. They highlight an acute awareness by the occupants themselves of these power dynamics and thus, how cautious they were to be critical of their care providers. They further document how severely disabled people can, and cannot, exercise control over what, when, where, and with whom they eat—with implications for both nutrition/health and sociality/inclusion.

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Ableism 及其不满：食物作为生活在美国机构中的残疾人的一种权力、控制和抵抗形式

摘要 粮食不安全是美国的一个重大问题，对残疾人的影响尤为严重。然而，关于残疾和食物的学术研究很少，特别是关于机构中的人，从残疾人的角度来看就更少了。本文介绍了来自不同类型“社区安置”的两个民族志例子。这些残疾人的第一手资料探讨了粮食不安全在不同机构群体家庭环境中的表现，以及人们如何平衡健康和自由的竞争需求。它们展示了权力、控制和抵抗的概念以及关于“适当身体”的潜在能力论假设如何在日常基础上发挥作用。它们突出了居住者本身对这些动力动态的敏锐意识，因此，他们对护理提供者的批评是多么谨慎。他们进一步记录了重度残疾人如何能够和不能控制他们吃什么、什么时候、在哪里以及和谁一起吃——这对营养/健康和社会性/包容性都有影响。