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- Alimentação em tempos difíceis - entre a família e a escolaPublication . Truninger, Monica; Ramos, VascoEm Portugal, os dados estatísticos mais recentes apontam para uma diminuição da taxa de pobreza, face ao pico da crise de 2008-2015. Apesar da evolução positiva, os números continuam a ser muito elevados, estimando-se que 2,2 milhões de pessoas estivessem em risco de pobreza ou exclusão social em 2018. Existe igualmente um número muito significativo de pessoas que continua a recorrer a ajuda de emergência para suprir necessidades alimentares básicas. Alguns estudos revelam que os impactos da crise financeira global e a intervenção musculada de medidas de contenção orçamental no período austero da Troika (2011-2014) atingiram com mais força as famílias com crianças, sendo o risco de pobreza maior entre as famílias monoparentais e as famílias numerosas. No entanto, são muito escassos os dados sistemáticos sobre as famílias com crianças em situação de pobreza alimentar ou acerca das suas experiências alimentares quotidianas.
- School meals as a resource for low-income families in three European countries: a comparative case approachPublication . O’Connell, Rebecca; Brannen, Julia; Ramos, Vasco; Skuland, Silje; Truninger, MonicaIn the context of successive global crises and rising household food insecurity in wealthy European countries there is renewed attention to the role of school meals as a welfare intervention. However, little is known about the extent to which school meals are a resource for low-income families living in different contexts. Drawing on a mixed methods study of food in low-income families in three European countries, this paper adopts a realist ontological stance and an embedded case study approach to address this question. The research concerns low-income families with children aged 11–15 years in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis in the UK, Portugal and Norway. Based on a comparative, multi-layered analysis of macro-, meso- and micro-level contexts, we argue that publicly funded, nutritious school meals protect children from the direct effects of poverty on their food security, whilst underfunded and weakly regulated school food provision compounds children’s experiences of disadvantage and exclusion. The paper concludes with recommendations for public policies that conceptualise school meals as a collective resource, like education, to which young people as bearers of the right to food are entitled.
- Food poverty and informal network support in a changing Portuguese rural areaPublication . Ramos, Vasco; Truninger, MonicaDifferent representations of the ‘countryside’ coexist in contemporary Portugal, from idyllic depictions to portrayals of emptiness and loneliness. Rural contexts close to urban areas are assumed to have informal support networks that can alleviate poverty and exclusion when institutional support fails. The incidence and intensity of food poverty are presumed to be lessened by proximity to food production sites and land ownership. In this article, we aim to analyse how living in an intermediate area shapes the experience of food poverty. We draw on qualitative case studies of low-income families living in between a predominantly rural and a predominantly urban territory in Portugal, which has been through a process of restructuring of its rural territory since the second half of the 20th century. Paying attention to the specificities of this intermediate context, including the availability of formal support, we will investigate to what extent informal support networks alleviate food poverty for these families. Our discussion adds to the scientific debate on food poverty and its links to social networks in intermediate areas previously embedded in predominantly rural territories. We also discuss the highly gendered nature of informal support and its significance for women enduring food poverty.
- Cambios en la hospitalidad en tiempos de crisis en PortugalPublication . Truninger, Monica; Ramos, Vasco
- Researching children’s food practices in contexts of deprivation: ethical and methodological challengesPublication . Ramos, Vasco; Truninger, Monica; Cardoso, Sónia; Augusto, Fábio RafaelThe paper develops a critical reflection upon the methodological and ethical challenges of researching the food practices of low-income families with children. We draw on data and fieldwork experience in Portugal, within a recently completed European research project. The study aimed to understand children’s experiences and views about the place of food in their lives, drawing on sociological approaches to childhood that conceptualize children as social agents, active participants within families and competent experts on their own social and interactional worlds. These assertions underlie the project’s mixed-method approach (in-person interviews, questionnaires and photo-elicitation). We argue that beyond well-known ethical challenges (such as gatekeeping, power asymmetries, reciprocity and active participation), food and food poverty bring forth unique dilemmas, which may affect children’s participation in research. Following the dimensions suggested by Tracy, our contribution offers a reflexive account of ethics-in-practice of how we dealt with ethical dilemmas on the field.