“…While the UK has long had organisations that aim to address poverty-related vulnerability (e.g., the Salvation Army), since 2010 the UK has seen a rise in locally based initiatives that seek to promote community-led support, which involves new funding and resourcing models and higher incorporation of individual citizen involvement in service delivery (e.g., through volunteers and corporate sponsorship or by facilitating access to donations that help to reduce costs). Importantly, while this research focuses on the UK context, similar increases are also observable in other national contexts where a neoliberal political economy is active as demonstrated by, for example, the rise in initiatives framed as food justice which seek to address issues of food access in neighbourhoods where food access is limited and populations are poor and otherwise disadvantaged in the United States [12,13,[35][36][37]].…”
Section: The Uk Neoliberal Contextmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Secondly, it opens up new avenues for understanding how to support individuals within highly deprived communities to be able to self-organise. The research reveals a range of previously invisible practices that seek to make food accessible, to rebuild community adaptability, and to alter existing local foodscapes [12,13]. As such, the empirical account also addresses an existing lacuna in our understanding of food support in low-income communities, which largely focuses on emergency food provision (food banks) and its relationship with immediate crisis (e.g., [14,15]), and for non-UK contexts also see [16][17][18]).…”
Section: Resilience and Capacity For Community Self-organisationmentioning
This research considers the relationship between neoliberalism, poverty and food insecurity and how this impacts on the ability of a community to self-organise and become resilient. Specifically, it examines shocks imposed by the implementation of austerity policy and neoliberal welfare reform and the longer term individualisation that gives rise to greater vulnerability to such shocks and how community organisations encourage different levels of resilience in the face of this. Original findings from case study and qualitative analysis are twofold. Firstly, food insecurity effects are not only hunger and poor health experienced at the individual scale, but they also extend into places through the loss of social networks, erosion of community spaces, denigration of local foodscapes and collective de-skilling that limits the community resources needed for self-organising. Secondly, the ways in which food support is provided in communities has implications for how communities can regain the resources they need to be able to enact resilience in the face of trouble and difficulty. As such, the research demonstrates that self-organising is more than free-time activity; in these conditions, the capacity to self-organise is a vital community asset that is necessary for building resilience and social sustainability. As such, policy responses to poverty should take a multi-scale approach.
“…While the UK has long had organisations that aim to address poverty-related vulnerability (e.g., the Salvation Army), since 2010 the UK has seen a rise in locally based initiatives that seek to promote community-led support, which involves new funding and resourcing models and higher incorporation of individual citizen involvement in service delivery (e.g., through volunteers and corporate sponsorship or by facilitating access to donations that help to reduce costs). Importantly, while this research focuses on the UK context, similar increases are also observable in other national contexts where a neoliberal political economy is active as demonstrated by, for example, the rise in initiatives framed as food justice which seek to address issues of food access in neighbourhoods where food access is limited and populations are poor and otherwise disadvantaged in the United States [12,13,[35][36][37]].…”
Section: The Uk Neoliberal Contextmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Secondly, it opens up new avenues for understanding how to support individuals within highly deprived communities to be able to self-organise. The research reveals a range of previously invisible practices that seek to make food accessible, to rebuild community adaptability, and to alter existing local foodscapes [12,13]. As such, the empirical account also addresses an existing lacuna in our understanding of food support in low-income communities, which largely focuses on emergency food provision (food banks) and its relationship with immediate crisis (e.g., [14,15]), and for non-UK contexts also see [16][17][18]).…”
Section: Resilience and Capacity For Community Self-organisationmentioning
This research considers the relationship between neoliberalism, poverty and food insecurity and how this impacts on the ability of a community to self-organise and become resilient. Specifically, it examines shocks imposed by the implementation of austerity policy and neoliberal welfare reform and the longer term individualisation that gives rise to greater vulnerability to such shocks and how community organisations encourage different levels of resilience in the face of this. Original findings from case study and qualitative analysis are twofold. Firstly, food insecurity effects are not only hunger and poor health experienced at the individual scale, but they also extend into places through the loss of social networks, erosion of community spaces, denigration of local foodscapes and collective de-skilling that limits the community resources needed for self-organising. Secondly, the ways in which food support is provided in communities has implications for how communities can regain the resources they need to be able to enact resilience in the face of trouble and difficulty. As such, the research demonstrates that self-organising is more than free-time activity; in these conditions, the capacity to self-organise is a vital community asset that is necessary for building resilience and social sustainability. As such, policy responses to poverty should take a multi-scale approach.
“…Toisin sanoen se tarkastelee miten, missä ja kenen toimesta ruokaa tuotetaan, käsitellään ja myydään, näiden käytäntöjen ja niiden seurausten oikeudenmukaisuutta sekä sitä, onko ihmisillä yhtäläinen mahdollisuus hankkia ruokaa (Gottlieb & Joshi 2013, 6). Aiheen tutkimus sijoittuu pääosin kolmen lähestymistavan ympärille: kansalaisliikehdinnän tutkimukseen, vaihtoehtoisten käytäntöjen ja kestävämmän ruokajärjestelmän kehittämiseen sekä eriarvoisuuksien analysointiin vallitsevissa ja vaihtoehtoisissa ruokajärjestelmissä (Glennie & Alkon 2018). Keskeisiä asiakysymyksiä ovat muun muassa viljelijöiden ja ruokatyöntekijöiden asema, ruoan saatavuus ja niin sanotut ruoka-aavikot (alueet joilla puuttuu mahdollisuus ostaa terveellistä ruokaa), tuotannon ympäristövaikutusten (esimerkiksi torjunta-aineille altistuminen) jakautuminen, sekä ruokajärjestelmään liittyvä politiikka ja ruokajärjestelmän globalisoituminen (Glennie & Alkon 2018).…”
Section: Ruokaoikeudenmukaisuus Ja Ympäristökysymys Johdantounclassified
“…Aiheen tutkimus sijoittuu pääosin kolmen lähestymistavan ympärille: kansalaisliikehdinnän tutkimukseen, vaihtoehtoisten käytäntöjen ja kestävämmän ruokajärjestelmän kehittämiseen sekä eriarvoisuuksien analysointiin vallitsevissa ja vaihtoehtoisissa ruokajärjestelmissä (Glennie & Alkon 2018). Keskeisiä asiakysymyksiä ovat muun muassa viljelijöiden ja ruokatyöntekijöiden asema, ruoan saatavuus ja niin sanotut ruoka-aavikot (alueet joilla puuttuu mahdollisuus ostaa terveellistä ruokaa), tuotannon ympäristövaikutusten (esimerkiksi torjunta-aineille altistuminen) jakautuminen, sekä ruokajärjestelmään liittyvä politiikka ja ruokajärjestelmän globalisoituminen (Glennie & Alkon 2018). Ruokaoikeudenmukaisuutta on kutsuttu myös ruokajärjestelmän oikeudenmukaisen kestävyyden tutkimusalaksi, joka yhdistää sosiaalisen oikeudenmukaisuuden ja ekologisen kestävyyden kysymykset (Agyeman 2013;Glennie & Alkon 2018).…”
Section: Ruokaoikeudenmukaisuus Ja Ympäristökysymys Johdantounclassified
Ruokaoikeudenmukaisuus viittaa ruokajärjestelmän reiluuteen eli siihen, miten oikeudenmukaisesti ruoan tuotannon, prosessoinnin, kaupan ja kuluttamisen hyödyt ja haitat jakaantuvat ja miten yhdenvertainen mahdollisuus ihmisillä on riittävään ja kulttuurisesti hyväksyttävään ravitsemukseen. Ruokaoikeudenmukaisuuden diskurssissa on vallinnut oletus, että ruokajärjestelmän oikeudenmukaisuus kulkee käsi kädessä järjestelmän kestävyyden kanssa. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelen ruokaoikeudenmukaisuuden suhdetta ruokajärjestelmän ekologiseen kestävyyteen ja osoitan suhteen olevan jännitteinen tavoilla, jotka ovat toistaiseksi jääneet lähes huomiotta. Erityisesti tarkastelen lähiruoan ekologista kestävyyttä, joka on otettu usein annettuna oikeudenmukaisuuden diskursseissa: artikkelissa osoitan tämän oletuksen ongelmallisuuden. Toinen samankaltainen jännite liittyy ruokademokratian lisäämiseen, joka ei välttämättä paranna ruokajärjestelmän kestävyyttä vaan saattaa joissain tapauksissa jopa hidastaa ruokajärjestelmän kestävyystransitiota. Lopussa pohdin, miten artikkelissa tunnistettujen jännitteiden kanssa voidaan tulla toimeen ja miten ruokademokratiaa voitaisiin lisätä tavalla, joka tukee sekä oikeudenmukaisuutta että ekologisesti kestävän ruokajärjestelmän rakentamista.
Avainsanat: ruokaoikeudenmukaisuus, ekologinen kestävyys, lähiruoka, ruokademokratia
“…These maneuverings create conditions that shape how we understand food justice and the movement associated with the concept. Here, food justice is defined as a historical set of ideological commitments, frameworks, and strategies designed to eradicate inequalities of race, class, gender, and sexuality reproduced in the food system and society that contribute to the rise of hunger, poverty, and food insecurity (Glennie & Alkon, 2018;Hislop, 2015;Sbicca, 2018).…”
While scholars who study issues of food justice use the term food power rarely-if at all-their arguments often position the rise of the food justice movement in the context of food power that sustains oppression in the food system. Similarly, many food justice activists and organizations produce an analysis of oppressive forms of food power, while placing the goals of the movement to create sustainable community-based interventions in the periphery. Yet, the pursuit of food justice is a dual process related to power. This process is characterized by the simultaneous acts of dismantling oppressive forms of food power and building emancipatory forms of food power. It also has deep roots in the historical arc of food politics in the Black Freedom Struggle of the civil rights era.
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