Community food work as critical practice: A faith-based perspective through narratives

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dc.contributor.authorLigrani, Rebeccaen
dc.contributor.authorNiewolny, Kimberly L.en
dc.contributor.departmentAgricultural, Leadership, and Community Educationen
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-20T14:49:16Zen
dc.date.available2019-05-20T14:49:16Zen
dc.date.issued2017en
dc.description.abstractCommunity food work is a framework for understanding the interconnections and complexities of food systems issues such as farm sustainability, food access and health equity, environmental resiliency, and social justice. An emerging yet overlooked perspective of community food work is the role of faith-based organizations and practitioners. In this single case study of six faith-based practitioners focused on urban food security in Virginia, we use narrative inquiry to explore how they understand and perform their community food work from a faith-based and social justice context. Our methods included interviewing each practitioner to create stories of their everyday work, researcher-participant analysis of those stories, and a collective reflection session of the group's narratives. The final narratives not only point toward specific social justice values and practices aimed at addressing race and class inequity in the food system as significant elements of their community food work, but also created new space for practitioner reflection and discovery of the way white privilege and class-based assumptions can be uncovered and challenged in the work itself. In this way, the research describes what community food work looks like through a faith-based lens, while also showing how storytelling and narratives can be used as an approach to create possibility for critical reflection about power and privilege in our everyday practice. We conclude with suggestions for using storytelling and narrative inquiry in similar food system contexts as a strategy for community change.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2017.074.001en
dc.identifier.eissn2152-0801en
dc.identifier.issn2152-0798en
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/89576en
dc.identifier.volume7en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectCommunity Food Worken
dc.subjectCritical Consciousnessen
dc.subjectFaith-Based Organizationen
dc.subjectFood Securityen
dc.subjectNarrative Inquiryen
dc.subjectWhole Measures for Community Food Systemsen
dc.titleCommunity food work as critical practice: A faith-based perspective through narrativesen
dc.title.serialJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Developmenten
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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