Value(s) in Community Food Work
The Dynamics of the Field, Funding and the Limits of Metrics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2323552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen Traill (0000-0002-2488-8265, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 199-215 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00380385241275849 |
| OpenAlex | W4402575652 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
Despite talks of increasing data-saturation and the metric society, there are still many ordinary situations that are neither 'smart' nor digitised. Nevertheless, a logic of evidence and measurement can be demonstrated in the mundane spaces of community organisations, raising questions about how such logics travel and are engaged with in the everyday. Taking three everyday spaces, this article uncovers the dynamics of valuation in community organisations. This article argues that field dynamics of evaluation and measurement warp community organisations through creating a funding game (a competition) that values evidenced outcomes over long-term goals, undervaluing and making invisible the community-value of such organisations. It addresses the capacity at a local level to play the game and argues that only limited spaces exist to work against the logics of measurement. Thus, this article highlights what is at stake in the measurement of community organisations
Dynamics (music) · Economics · Field (mathematics) · Sociology · Statistics · Value (mathematics) · Work (physics) · Engineering · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability · Mathematics · Organic Food and Agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
Community Resilience
Caring Capitalism
Chapter 2 Resource dependence theory
Limits to Institutional Isomorphism
Valuation Is Work
From the Third Sector to the Big Society
We Actually Trust the Community
Autonomy, Erasure, and Persistence in the Urban Gardening Commons
Community Volunteering as Neoliberal Strategy? Green Space Production in Berlin
Urban Community Gardens as Spaces of Citizenship
Dynamic Resistance
Urban Agriculture in shared spaces
The uses of value
Food banks, actually existing austerity and the localisation of responsibility
Does Race Matter in Government Funding of Nonprofit Human Service Organizations? The Interaction of Neighborhood Poverty and Race
Radical, reformist, and garden-variety neoliberal
It takes a garden
Geographies of policy
How you keep going
Values beyond value? Is anything beyond the logic of capital
Social Movements, Organizations, and Fields
Caring at the edges
After progress
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Being in Community
Affective History, Working-Class Communities and Self-Determination
Hunger Bonds
Why Everyday Life Matters
Nonprofit Incorporation Among Movements of the Poor
Rankings and Reactivity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |