Feeding the debate: a local food bank explains itself

Buckingham, Heather; Jolley, Andy

doi:10.1332/204080515x14446458480179

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“…Empathic and nonjudgemental care has been recognised as an important element of foodbank practice and conceived through a feminist ethics of care framework (Lambie-Mumford, 2017;Midgley, 2016). In this sense, foodbanks have been shown to provide a more ethical counterpoint to the uncaring dynamics of neoliberal welfare institutions (Williams et al, 2016;Buckingham and Jolley, 2015). Cloke et al (2016) suggest that encounters within foodbanks can also be generative of new ethical attitudes and political transformation which can be a catalyst for food justice advocacy (Williams et al, 2016;Cloke et al, 2016).…”

Section: The Ethics Of Foodbankingmentioning

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The ethical dilemmas of foodbanking: an analysis of the More Than Food programme

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Dayson

2021

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice

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This article contributes to debates about the ethicality of foodbanks, a pervasive element of the UK welfare support infrastructure. Drawing on qualitative interview data, we use the concepts of ‘food poverty knowledge’ and ‘lay morality’ to analyse the narratives of those running a major Trussell Trust ‘foodbank-plus’ programme and explore inherent moral sentiments therein about how those who are in food poverty are understood. We identify a contradiction between foodbankers’ ‘structural’ understanding of poverty and the implicitly agential assumptions that underpin the programme. We suggest that this represents a precarious ethical position on which to base practice.

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Section: The Ethics Of Foodbankingmentioning

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The ethical dilemmas of foodbanking: an analysis of the More Than Food programme

Parr

Hawkins

Dayson

2021

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice

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“…To give greater context to Violet's writing, I first recruited volunteers at the time of the 2015 General Election when the Conservative Party came to power as a single governing party, whilst Violet later wrote that she was 'politically on the left'. Violet understood volunteering as a way to increase her knowledge to challenge others' (mis)conceptions about food poverty, and consequently to take part in activism 66 as she hoped to be able to challenge 'prevailing right wing mythologies'. How Violet and others framed their motivations in terms of politics was more often in this micro-context than in reference to wider relationships between faith-based organisations, the state and postsecular society which has more often been the focus of volunteering research.…”

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Religious faith, effort and enthusiasm: motivations to volunteer in response to holiday hunger

Denning

2020

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The voluntary sector is playing an increasing role in responding to UK poverty, but there is a lack of attention in cultural geographies to understanding what motivates people to volunteer in this response. In particular, faith-based organisations – and therefore volunteers with religious faith – have been an active part of the voluntary sector response to poverty. However, little is known about what motivates people who have a religious faith to volunteer. Drawing on participatory and ethnographic research with a UK Christian charity working in the area of children’s holiday hunger, this article seeks to make three contributions. First, it moves beyond static notions of religious motivation which tend to characterise quantitative and more reductive qualitative approaches to volunteering in the social sciences. Secondly, it develops analysis of religious faith which foregrounds its relational, fluid and contested role in motivating people to volunteer, highlighting the importance of ongoing volunteering journeys alongside the initial motivations which led to a person starting to volunteer. Thirdly, by focusing on effort and enthusiasm the article seeks to break down the binary between faith-based and secular motivations and highlight instead the ways volunteers at the holiday hunger project experienced challenges in turning an initial motivation into action, and how ‘faith motivation’ itself is inherently relational and is co-constituted in place.

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“…Their growing prominence has attracted significant academic attention (for example, see Buckingham andJolley, 2015 andIafrati, 2018 in this journal). Hannah Lambie-Mumford is a particularly prominent voice in debates surrounding emergency food provision (2016a; 2016b).…”

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Hungry Britain: The rise of food charity by Hannah Lambie-Mumford (2017)

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2019

Voluntary Sector Review

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Feeding the debate: a local food bank explains itself

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

The ethical dilemmas of foodbanking: an analysis of the More Than Food programme

The ethical dilemmas of foodbanking: an analysis of the More Than Food programme

Religious faith, effort and enthusiasm: motivations to volunteer in response to holiday hunger

Hungry Britain: The rise of food charity by Hannah Lambie-Mumford (2017)

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