“I was purchasing it; it wasn't given to me”: Food project patronage and the geography of dignity work

In response to food access challenges, local organisers are developing community food projects (CFPs) such as good food box programmes, mobile food vending, and non‐profit grocery stores, which (re)introduce affordable retail food options into under‐served communities. This paper explores the patronage of such retail‐based CFPs as dignity work. Whereas Jacobson (e.g., 2009a) elaborates a typology of social processes through which people …