All Outputs (3)

Updating ‘Stockpiling as resilience’ in the context of the cost of living crisis: Tracking changes in resilience strategies in the U.K. (2024)
Journal Article
Benker, B. (in press). Updating ‘Stockpiling as resilience’ in the context of the cost of living crisis: Tracking changes in resilience strategies in the U.K. Food, Culture and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2329441

Using the seven resilience strategies identified in the previous paper entitled “Stockpiling as Resilience,” this study offers an update on the previous study 1 year later with interviews with the same households. The first paper was the result of in... Read More about Updating ‘Stockpiling as resilience’ in the context of the cost of living crisis: Tracking changes in resilience strategies in the U.K..

Book Review: Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton and Betsy Lucal - Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes (3rd Edn) (2023)
Journal Article
Benker, B. (2024). Book Review: Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton and Betsy Lucal - Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes (3rd Edn). Cultural Sociology, 18(1), 173 - 174. https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755231164512

Food is a significant driver, and indicator, of cultural understandings. The food systems in which food is produced informs the way it is consumed – and consumption is a key cultural communicator. Consider regional differences in food choice which in... Read More about Book Review: Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton and Betsy Lucal - Food and Society: Principles and Paradoxes (3rd Edn).

Stockpiling as resilience: Defending and contextualising extra food procurement during lockdown (2020)
Journal Article
Benker, B. (2021). Stockpiling as resilience: Defending and contextualising extra food procurement during lockdown. Appetite, 156, 104981. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104981

During the UK‘s lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, both food shortages and stockpiling were well-publicised events. The UK's food system has struggled and lockdown shortages are part of an ongoing trend of anxiety around the food system.... Read More about Stockpiling as resilience: Defending and contextualising extra food procurement during lockdown.