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‘It doesn’t feel like charity; it feels like a privilege’: exploring recipient experiences of social enterprise-based food projects in urban areas of socioeconomic disadvantage in the UK Open
Due to persistent food insecurity, more households are relying on food support, predominantly food banks. However, food banks often fail to meet people’s nutritional demands in a socially acceptable, dignified way. Social enterprises may r…
‘It doesn’t feel like charity; it feels like a privilege’: Exploring recipient experiences of social enterprise-based food support projects in deprived urban regions of the UK Open
Food insecurity is a growing issue in the UK, with increasing numbers of households relying on food support, predominantly food banks. However, food banks often fail to meet people’s nutritional demands in a socially acceptable, dignified …
Towards measuring food insecurity stigma: development and validation of the Food Insecurity Self-stigma Scale and the Food Support Experiences Scale Open
Background Within high income countries, individuals experiencing food insecurity have become increasingly reliant on food support to satisfy household food needs. However, experiencing food insecurity and accessing food support are highly…
Towards measuring food insecurity stigma: Development and validation of the Food Insecurity Self- Stigma Scale and the Food Support Experiences Scale Open
Background Within high income countries such as the UK, individuals experiencing food insecurity have become increasingly reliant on food support to satisfy household food needs. However, experiencing food insecurity and accessing food sup…
Collective entrepreneurship in low-income communities: The importance of collective ownership, collective processes and collective goods Open
By focusing on individualised theories of entrepreneurship, mainstream entrepreneurship literature often marginalises entrepreneurship as a product of collaborative action. Addressing this limitation, our emphasis on collective entrepreneu…
Corrigendum: Urban commoning under adverse conditions: lessons from a failed transdisciplinary project Open
Zielke J, Hepburn P, Thompson M, Southern A. Corrigendum: Urban commoning under adverse conditions: lessons from a failed transdisciplinary project (vol 3, 727331, 2021). Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 2023;5: 1205886.
Conceptualising food banking in the UK: A mixed studies systematic review and directed content analysis Open
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Urban Commoning Under Adverse Conditions: Lessons From a Failed Transdisciplinary Project Open
While the commons and commoning are generally associated with community-based ecosystems at the localised scale of the neighbourhood, ambitious reinterpretations explore possibilities for scaling up commoning as a collaborative and sustain…
Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region Open
This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – a…
Re-grounding the city with Polanyi: From urban entrepreneurialism to entrepreneurial municipalism Open
Conventional approaches to local economic development are failing to address deepening polarisation both within and between city regions across advanced capitalist economies. At the same time, austerity urbanism, particularly in the UK, pr…
Growth, sustainability and purpose in the community business market in the Liverpool City Region Open
This report builds an evidence base that demonstrates how growth can be achieved in the community business market in Liverpool City Region. Based on a database of community businesses, semi structured interviews and a survey, the report fi…
The world of work and the crisis of capitalism: Marx and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Open
Marx’s work on machines showed an initial clarity on where he believed technology sits in the means of production. The machine, its differentia specifica, while it consumes other forms of raw material just as the labourer consumes food, do…
Community Land Trusts - a radical or reformist response to The Housing Question today? Open
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) can be a focal point of community organization in defence of neighbourhood space and in seeking to push back against powerful developers. Simultaneously, we also see CLTs that represent a reformist desire for s…
The crafting of an (un)enterprising community: Context and the social practice of talk Open
This article examines a ‘deprived’ UK community to identify how (dis)connections between context and enterprise are produced within accounts of a particular locality. We used a discursive psychological approach to examine how the community…