Social solidarity, social infrastructure, and community food access

Katie Kerstetter (), Drew Bonner (), Kristopher Cleland (), Mia Jesús-Martin (), Rachelle Quintanilla (), Amy L. Best (), Dominique Hazzard () and Jordan Carter ()
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Katie Kerstetter: George Mason University
Drew Bonner: George Mason University
Kristopher Cleland: George Mason University
Mia Jesús-Martin: George Mason University
Rachelle Quintanilla: George Mason University
Amy L. Best: George Mason University
Dominique Hazzard: Johns Hopkins University
Jordan Carter: Jordan Curry Carter LLC

Agriculture and Human Values, 2023, vol. 40, issue 3, No 34, 1303-1315

Abstract: Abstract This study examines the case of community resource mobilization within the context of a farmers market incentive program in Washington D.C., USA to illustrate the ways in which providing opportunities for people impacted by food inequities to develop and lead programming can help to promote food access. Through an analysis of interviews with 36 participants in the Produce Plus program, some of whom also served as paid staff and volunteers with the program, this study examines the ways that group-level social interactions among program participants helped to ensure the program was accessible and accountable to the primarily Black communities that it serves. Specifically, we explore a particular set of social interactions, which we collectively term social solidarity, as a community-level form of social infrastructure that program volunteers and participants mobilized to support access to fresh, local food in their communities. We also examine the elements of the Produce Plus program that contributed to the flow of social solidarity within the program, providing insight into the ways in which the structure of food access programs can serve as a social conduit to facilitate or hinder the mobilization of community cultural resources like social solidarity.

Keywords: Social solidarity; Social infrastructure; Farmers market; Incentive program; Mutual aid; Food justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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