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Understanding Lived Experiences of Food Insecurity through a Paraliminality Lens
Moraes, Caroline McEachern, Morven Gibbons, Andrea Scullion, Lisa
Moraes, Caroline
McEachern, Morven
Gibbons, Andrea
Scullion, Lisa
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2021-04-30
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This article examines lived experiences of food insecurity in the United Kingdom as a liminal phenomenon. Our research is set within the context of austerity measures, welfare reform and the precarity experienced by increasing numbers of individuals. Drawing on original qualitative data, we highlight diverse food insecurity experiences as transitional, oscillating between phases of everyday food access to requiring supplementary food, which are both empowering and reinforcing of food insecurity. We make three original contributions to existing research on food insecurity. First, we expand the scope of empirical research by conceptualising food insecurity as liminal. Second, we illuminate shared social processes and practices that intersect individual agency and structure, co-constructing people’s experiences of food insecurity. Third, we extend liminality theory by conceptualising paraliminality, a hybrid of liminal and liminoid phenomena that co-generates a persistent liminal state. Finally, we highlight policy implications that go beyond short-term emergency food access measures.
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Moraes, C., McEachern, M. G., Gibbons, A. & Scullion, L. (2021). Understanding lived experiences of food poverty through a paraliminality lens. Sociology, 55(6), 1169-1190. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211003450
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SAGE Publications
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Sociology
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10.1177/00380385211003450
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Moraes, C., McEachern, M. G., Gibbons, A. and Scullion, L. (2021). Understanding lived experiences of food poverty through a paraliminality lens. Sociology, 55(6), 1169-1190. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211003450. Copyright © [2021] (Copyright Holder). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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0038-0385
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1469-8684