The literature overwhelmingly addresses the structural factors contributing to food insecurity
Fails to offer any meaningful solutions or new understandings of the issue
Existing literature portrays food insecure individuals as static, unchanging to their situation
Research gap: personal choices, methods for navigating food insecurity, “the agency of refusal,” locale-specific data on the various DC wards
Why do some highly food insecure people NOT utilize all of the resources at their disposal?
May address Quiet Food Refusal:
Expressing personal agency and resistance through dissent