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dc.contributor.authorPower, M.*
dc.contributor.authorSmall, Neil A.*
dc.contributor.authorDoherty, B.*
dc.contributor.authorPickett, K.E.*
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-18T09:14:06Z
dc.date.available2018-09-18T09:14:06Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationPower M, Small N, Doherty B et al (2020) 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. 31: 907-922.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/16575
dc.descriptionYes
dc.description.abstractWe 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.
dc.description.sponsorshipNIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Yorkshire and Humber (NIHR CLAHRC YH) (Grant Number IS-CLA-0113-10020).
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rights© 2018 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons CC-BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
dc.subjectFood aid
dc.subjectFood banks
dc.subjectFood insecurity
dc.subjectCritical theory
dc.subjectReligion
dc.titleThe incompatibility of system and lifeworld understandings of food insecurity and the provision of food aid in an English city
dc.status.refereedYes
dc.date.application2018-07-09
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.versionPublished version
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-018-0018-7
dc.rights.licenseCC-BY
refterms.dateFOA2018-09-18T09:14:08Z
dc.openaccess.statusopenAccess
dc.date.accepted2018-07


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