Power, Madeleine Sarah orcid.org/0000-0002-9571-1782, Small, Neil, Doherty, Bob orcid.org/0000-0001-6724-7065 et al. (1 more author) (2018) The incompatibility of system and lifeworld understandings of food insecurity and the provision of food aid in an English city. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. pp. 907-922. ISSN 0957-8765
Abstract
We report qualitative findings from a study in a multi-ethnic, multi-faith city with high levels of deprivation. Primary research over 2 years consisted of three focus groups and 18 semi-structured interviews with food insecurity service providers followed by focus groups with 16 White British and Pakistani women in or at risk of food insecurity. We consider food insecurity using Habermas’s distinction between the system and lifeworld. We examine system definitions of the nature of need, approved food choices, the reification of selected skills associated with household management and the imposition of a construct of virtue. While lifeworld truths about food insecurity include understandings of structural causes and recognition that the potential of social solidarity to respond to them exist, they are not engaged with by the system. The gap between system rationalities and the experiential nature of lay knowledge generates individual and collective disempowerment and a corrosive sense of shame.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018 |
Keywords: | Critical theory,Food aid,Food banks,Food insecurity,Religion |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Health Sciences (York) The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number BBSRC (BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL) BB/N02060X/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2018 13:50 |
Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2024 01:29 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-018-0018-7 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11266-018-0018-7 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:133175 |
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