Journal
CITY & COMMUNITY
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 4-20Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1177/15356841211007758
Keywords
food access; food acquisition; food deserts
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- Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University
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The study found that urban residents have different cognitive and practices towards food access, divided into immigrant and local resident two groups. Immigrants focus on mobility and self-efficacy, accustomed to obtaining food across the metropolis; while local residents are more inclined towards proximity and moral values, focusing on the residential community. This difference highlights the impact of structural and cultural factors on food access.
How do urban residents access and acquire food? Building on the food desert scholarship, I propose an agentic framework and fieldwork in two mixed neighborhoods (one gentrifying, one working-class suburban) in the Paris metropolis. First- and second-generation immigrants perceive the metropolis as a rich and diverse food environment, whereas natives perceive their neighborhood of residence as a food-deficient environment. First- and second-generation immigrants endow mobility with self-efficacy, whereas natives construct proximity as a moral value. First- and second-generation immigrants' acquisition practices consider price and types of foods and span the metropolis. Those of natives consider types of foods and center on their neighborhood of residence. These findings complicate neighborhood-centric, spatially deterministic approaches to food access and acquisition, by highlighting structural (access to transportation and disposable time and income) and cultural dimensions (judgments and practices). Theoretically, they suggest two distinct ways in which urban residents find meaning in performing mundane activities: believing in self-efficacy and constructing moral values. Additional implications regard social life in gentrifying neighborhoods, space and place in European urban societies, and everyday life and public transportation in the Paris metropolis.
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