This research examines the role of food aid providers, including their spatial engagement, in seeking to alleviate urban food poverty. Current levels of urban poverty across the UK have resulted in an unprecedented demand for food aid. Yet, urban poverty responsibility increasingly shifts away from policymakers to the third sector. Building on Castilhos and Dolbec’s notion of segregating space and original qualitative research with food aid organisations, we show how social supermarkets emerge as offering a type of transitional space between the segregating spaces of foodbanks and the market spaces of mainstream food retailers. This research contributes to existing literature by establishing the concept of transitional space, an additional type of space that facilitates movement between types of spaces and particularly transitions from the segregating spaces of emergency food aid to more secure spaces of food access. In so doing, this research extends Castilhos and Dolbec’s typology of spaces, enabling a more nuanced depiction of the spatiality of urban food poverty.

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城市贫困以及英国粮食援助组织在实现粮食获取空间隔离和过渡方面的作用

本研究探讨了粮食援助提供者在寻求缓解城市粮食贫困方面的作用，包括他们的空间参与。目前英国各地的城市贫困程度导致对粮食援助的需求空前。然而，城市贫困的责任日益从决策者手中转移到第三部门。基于卡斯蒂略斯和多尔贝克的隔离空间概念以及对粮食援助组织的原创定性研究，我们展示了社会超市如何在食品银行的隔离空间和主流食品零售商的市场空间之间提供一种过渡空间。这项研究通过建立过渡空间的概念对现有文献做出了贡献，过渡空间是一种额外的空间类型，有助于不同类型空间之间的移动，特别是从紧急粮食援助的隔离空间到更安全的粮食获取空间的过渡。通过这样做，这项研究扩展了卡斯蒂略斯和多尔贝克的空间类型学，从而能够更细致地描述城市粮食贫困的空间性。