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Author O'Connell, Rebecca, author.

Title Families and food in hard times : European comparative research / Rebecca O'Connell.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, [2021].
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations (color)
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Note Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section 1 Setting the scene -- 1 The national contexts: the UK, Portugal and Norway -- The UK, Portugal and Norway: their history, characteristics and welfare regimes -- Poverty and inequality among families after the 2008 financial crisis -- Rising household food insecurity in Europe after the 2008 financial crisis -- Food poverty and public discourse -- Food, food policy and responsibility for household food insecurity
Food aid in austerity Europe -- Notes -- 2 Research questions and concepts -- The study's research questions -- Food poverty: a relative and political approach -- The material dimension of food poverty -- The social dimension: exclusion from customary food practices -- The psychosocial dimension: worry and shame -- Understanding the household as a resource unit -- Food, poverty and change -- Children and poverty -- Notes -- 3 The study -- The macro level: documentary and secondary analysis of international data -- The meso level: the areas where the families live
The micro level: the parents and children -- Selecting the families -- The qualitative methods -- The families -- Analysing the data -- Ethical considerations -- Notes -- 4 Which types of family are at risk of food insecurity? -- The international data: European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions -- Family type in the UK, Portugal and Norway -- Families at risk of income poverty and food insecurity -- Types of family at risk of food insecurity -- The relationship between family type, income poverty and food insecurity -- Discussion
Households experiencing food insecurity in the qualitative research -- Children and parents going without enough to eat -- The quality of children's diets -- Discussion -- Notes -- Section 2 Households as resource units -- 5 Three families headed by an unemployed lone mother -- Living hand to mouth in a coastal town in the UK: Angela and Bryony -- Frequent hunger in an extended family in Lisbon: Lala and Goncalo -- Using the credit card to buy food in a migrant family in Oslo: Faduma and Sadia -- Discussion -- Notes -- 6 Three dual-earner households
Low and fluctuating income in a coastal UK town: Sally and Owen -- Low wages and not enough hours in Lisbon: Sonia and Bianca -- Disability benefits and one insecure income in the Norwegian countryside: Marit, her two sons, Asgier and Filip, and her daughter, Rebeka -- Discussion -- Notes -- 7 Three undocumented migrant families -- Destitution and child hunger in a hostile UK: Morowa and her teenage sons, Emmanuel and Gideon -- Surviving in the informal economy in Portugal: Nuria and Tola -- Feeding a large family on state benefits in Norway: Aamina and Jamal -- Discussion -- Notes
Note Section 3 The social dimensions of food poverty.
Summary Based on cross-national research carried out with low-income families with children aged 11-15, Families and Food in Hard Times examines food poverty in the UK, Portugal and Norway following the 2008 financial crisis.
Subject Poor families -- Great Britain.
Poor families -- Portugal.
Poor families -- Norway.
Food security -- Great Britain.
Food security -- Portugal.
Food security -- Norway.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Familles pauvres -- Grande-Bretagne.
Familles pauvres -- Portugal.
Familles pauvres -- Norvège.
Sécurité alimentaire -- Grande-Bretagne.
Sécurité alimentaire -- Portugal.
Sécurité alimentaire -- Norvège.
Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness
Food security
Poor families
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Norway https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRyK4jjG7gmVvd83RM4Y
Portugal https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxxjMbPKJH7yTMRfq7j4q
Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) (OCoLC)fst01755654 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbr3T8xBMDbJhDhGmm
Chronological Term 2008-2009
Added Author Brannen, Julia.
Other Form: Print version: O'Connell Rebecca. Families and food in hard times. London : UCL Press, 2021 1787356574 (OCoLC)1225067415
ISBN 9781787356580
1787356582
9781787356559 (electronic bk.)
1787356558 (electronic bk.)
1787356574
9781787356573
1787356566
9781787356566
9781787356597 (Kindle ebook)
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Standard No. AU@ 000069442049
UKMGB 020130615
AU@ 000070045166
AU@ 000069228158

 
    
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