Food insecurity in urban New Zealand. The case of the Kopa family

Graham, Rebekah; Hodgetts, Darrin; Stolte, Ottilie; Chamberlain, Kerry

doi:10.1080/10875549.2017.1419533

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“…There are also deeply held beliefs and subjectivities associated with food, including who is considered a producer, a worker, or a consumer. These shape perspectives around who is considered "worthy" of food as a fundamental right [16,17]. Diversity in the food system offers resilience to a range of potential shocks and crises [18,19], such as those resulting from a global pandemic.…”

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Food for People in Place: Reimagining Resilient Food Systems for Economic Recovery

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The COVID-19 pandemic and associated response have brought food security into sharp focus for many New Zealanders. The requirement to “shelter in place” for eight weeks nationwide, with only “essential services” operating, affected all parts of the New Zealand food system. The nationwide full lockdown highlighted existing inequities and created new challenges to food access, availability, affordability, distribution, transportation, and waste management. While Aotearoa New Zealand is a food producer, there remains uncertainty surrounding the future of local food systems, particularly as the long-term effects of the pandemic emerge. In this article we draw on interviews with food rescue groups, urban farms, community organisations, supermarket management, and local and central government staff to highlight the diverse, rapid, community-based responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings reveal shifts at both the local scale, where existing relationships and short supply chains have been leveraged quickly, and national scale, where funding has been mobilised towards a different food strategy. We use these findings to re-imagine where and how responsibility might be taken up differently to enhance resilience and care in diverse food systems in New Zealand.

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Food for People in Place: Reimagining Resilient Food Systems for Economic Recovery

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“…In the interests of feeding their families, Jess and Sophie described how clients would often sacrifice their own nutritional health to feed their children as an act of maternal care. They adopted tactics commonly associated with food insecurity, such as staving off hunger, by substituting main meals with Weet-Bix (a cheap breakfast cereal) for themselves and their children (Graham et al., 2018).…”

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“…However, strategies never result in total control. Tactics refer to the efforts of less powerful groups to appropriate the resources and strategies of powerful groups and disrupt their control (De Certeau, 1984; Graham et al, 2018). The use of tactics here can be understood in reference to Sartre’s (1948) notion of radical freedom, in that even in situations of violence and adversity women still have some degree of agency.…”

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Women’s everyday resistance to intimate partner violence

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Aotearoa/New Zealand’s rate of reported intimate partner violence (IPV) is among the highest in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In this article, we step behind the statistical trends to document the ways in which violence manifests in women’s everyday lives and the subtle, imperfect ways in which they respond through the development of various resistive tactics. We explore how these women navigate their daily lives with violence, paying particular attention to moments of adaptation, agency and resistance. With the help of Te Whakakruruhau (Māori Women’s Refuge), we conducted semi-structured discussions with eight women (four staff members and four former clients) who revealed how deeply enmeshed IPV can become within the conduct of everyday life. This necessitates their development of tactics for surviving the danger associated with mundane practices, such as grocery shopping, sleeping and doing the dishes. In responding to everyday violence, the women in our study create moments of routine and radical freedom in the midst of the chaos that comes with IPV.

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