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- Title
Fixes that Fail: A system archetype for examining racialized structures within the food system.
- Authors
Benninger, Elizabeth; Donley, Gwendolyn; Schmidt‐Sane, Megan; Clark, Jill K.; Lounsbury, David W.; Rose, Dominque; Freedman, Darcy
- Abstract
Access to fresh and healthy food within a neighborhood has been identified as a social mechanism contributing to community health. Grounded in the understanding that challenges related to equity within a food system are both structural and systemic, our research demonstrates how systems thinking can further understandings of food system complexity. Within systems thinking, we provide an illustration of how system archetypes offer an analytic tool for examining complex community issues. We map semi‐structured interview data from community stakeholders (N = 22) to the "Fixes that Fail" system archetype to illuminate systemic challenges, such as incarceration and poverty, that structure food system inequity in urban communities. Within our research, the "Fixes that Fail" archetype provided a narrative interpretive tool for unveiling complexity within the food system and interdependencies with racialized systems such as criminal justice and labor markets. This system archetype provided an accessible approach for generating narratives about systemic complexity, the production of inequity through racialized forces, and opportunities for transformation. Highlights: Research demonstrates how systems thinking can further understandings of food system complexityProvides an illustration of system archetypes as an analytic tool for complex community issuesIlluminates systemic challenges (i.e. incarceration and poverty) that structure food system inequityThe reduction of incarceration rates identified as a key lever of an equitable food systemCommunity ownership of initiatives, housing, and wealth is essential to address structural racism
- Subjects
ARCHETYPES; INSTITUTIONAL racism; SYSTEMS theory
- Publication
American Journal of Community Psychology, 2021, Vol 68, Issue 3/4, p455
- ISSN
0091-0562
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ajcp.12534