The possibilities and limits of personal agency
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The possibilities and limits of personal agency. / Dean, Wesley R.; Sharkey, Joseph R.; Johnson, Cassandra M.
I: Food, Culture and Society, Bind 19, Nr. 1, 2016, s. 129-149.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The possibilities and limits of personal agency
AU - Dean, Wesley R.
AU - Sharkey, Joseph R.
AU - Johnson, Cassandra M.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The food environment poses many challenges to low-income rural residents as they struggle to sustain themselves and their families. Rural settings in the United States are characterized by poorer food access and availability, including costlier and lower-quality produce, in comparison with urban settings. The practices employed by low-income residents to cope with these rural food environments have nutritional consequences and sometimes even broader health implications. However, these practices can also be interpreted as acts of creative agency. Using insights from earlier work on the environmental determinants of food-related behaviors, and a sociological perspective on the role of individual agency in the process of structuration, this research categorizes food-related hardships, acquisition strategies, and resources, and demonstrates how food access is negotiated within the more or less flexible constraints of rural settings characterized by the unavailability of inexpensive, high-quality foods.
AB - The food environment poses many challenges to low-income rural residents as they struggle to sustain themselves and their families. Rural settings in the United States are characterized by poorer food access and availability, including costlier and lower-quality produce, in comparison with urban settings. The practices employed by low-income residents to cope with these rural food environments have nutritional consequences and sometimes even broader health implications. However, these practices can also be interpreted as acts of creative agency. Using insights from earlier work on the environmental determinants of food-related behaviors, and a sociological perspective on the role of individual agency in the process of structuration, this research categorizes food-related hardships, acquisition strategies, and resources, and demonstrates how food access is negotiated within the more or less flexible constraints of rural settings characterized by the unavailability of inexpensive, high-quality foods.
KW - Coping strategies
KW - Cultural access
KW - Food access
KW - Food security
KW - Rural food environment
KW - Social structure
KW - Spatial access
KW - WalMart
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042158482&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15528014.2016.1145006
DO - 10.1080/15528014.2016.1145006
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85042158482
VL - 19
SP - 129
EP - 149
JO - Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
JF - Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
SN - 1552-8014
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 255453289