Food insecurity is a substantial problem in nearly every advanced capitalist nation, with
sizable portions of residents in many affluent countries struggling to eat healthily every day …

This article draws upon our perspective as academic-practitioners working in the fields of
food insecurity, food systems, and inequality to comment, in the early stages of the pandemic …

While private food assistance has long been a key component of the social safety net in
many parts of the world, the literature examining the organization and effectiveness of …

This paper advances ideas about relational geographies to explore 'everyday austerity'.
Whilst geographers have analysed the causes and aftermath of the recent financial crisis …

Since 2009, the UK has witnessed marked increases in the rate of sanctions applied to
unemployment insurance claimants, as part of a wider agenda of austerity and welfare …

For the last twenty years, scholarly research has relied primarily on food deserts as a way to
frame geographic disparities in access to healthy foods. The results of this research have …

This paper contributes to emerging geographical literature on what is here conceptualised
as 'actually existing austerity'—referring to the uneven ways through which austerity is felt …

The food bank has become a charitable safety-net for those who have been failed by the
social security system in times of austerity and during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this article …

This paper seeks to extend geographic thinking on the changing constitution of the UK
welfare state, suggesting the need to supplement ideas of the “shadow state” with an …

Not enough is known in the UK about how economic phenomena and policy changes have
impacted families' ability to feed themselves. This article employs a novel way of identifying …