“Properly, with love, from scratch”

Slocum, Rachel; Shannon, Jerry; Cadieux, Kirsten Valentine; Beckman, Matthew L.

doi:10.1215/01636545-2010-033

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“…If we look at how food choices are currently framed amid growing concerns about obesity, overweight and diet-related ill health, it is easy to see how parents -mothers in particular -have been subject to moral censure as overweight children are judged to be evidence of a failure to uphold socially constructed expectations of 'good' parenting (see, for example, Chen, 2016;Fox and Smith, 2011;Rich, 2011;Slocum et al, 2011). But as Fisher and Tronto explain, caring is a complex business within which a key skill is the ability to make judgments about what might be the best course of action in view of the resources available.…”

Section: Taking Care Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this context, the perceived benefits of cooking 'from scratch' (advanced by the nutritionist lobby) often overlook the use of processed ingredients, suggesting that the distinction between scratch cooking using fresh ingredients and a reliance on convenience food is frequently overdrawn (cf. Moisio et al, 2004;Slocum et al, 2011;Wolfson et al, 2016). Nonetheless, cooking from scratch is often presented as an inherently more caring, healthy and sustainable alternative to the use of convenience food -a view that this paper seeks to challenge.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Convenience as care: Culinary antinomies in practice

Meah

Jackson

2017

Environ Plan A

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This paper addresses the social and cultural significance of convenience food, often regarded as among the least healthy and most unsustainable of dietary options, subject to frequent moral disapprobation. The paper focuses, in particular, on the relationship between convenience and care, conventionally seen in oppositional terms as a culinary antinomy. Informed by a 'theories of practice' approach, the paper presents empirical evidence from ethnographically-informed research on everyday consumption practices in the UK to demonstrate how convenience foods can be used as an expression of care rather than as its antithesis. The paper uses Fisher and Tronto's theorisation of caring about, taking care of, caregiving and care-receiving to draw out the dynamics of this morally contested social practice.

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Section: Taking Care Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Convenience as care: Culinary antinomies in practice

Meah

Jackson

2017

Environ Plan A

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“…(Guthman 2011: 1-2) Social scientists and social justice activists have criticized the alternative food movement for its tendency to represent the tastes and concerns of upper-middle class, white consumers without marrying these to a social justice framework (Allen and Guthman 2006, Sbicca 2012, Schlosser 2012, Slocum 2007. When the alternative food movement has linked its cause to the conditions of low-income consumers and people of color, it has often done so by uncritically linking these groups to the "obesity epidemic" or by trying to "educate" low-income consumers who are presumed to have poor diets because of a lack of "awareness" (Slocum, et al, 2011).…”

Section: Youth and Food Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The public health focus on youth obesity tends to stigmatize low-income people and people of color for their body size, interpreted as the product of bad individual choices (Guthman 2011, Slocum et al, 2011, Slocum 2011. In earlier projects, some of the youth had mapped the limited food options in their neighborhood, exposing structural barriers shaping individuals' access to good nutrition.…”

Section: Individual or Self Awarenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food justice youth development: using Photovoice to study urban school food systems

Harper

Sands

Horowitz³

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Local Environment

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ABSTRACT:How do youth learn through participation in efforts to study and change the school food system? Through our participatory youth action research (YPAR) project, we move beyond the "youth as consumer" frame to a food justice youth development approach. We track how a group of youth learned about food and the public policy process through their efforts to transform their own school food systems by conducting a participatory evaluation of farm-to-school efforts in collaboration with university and community partners. We used the Photovoice research method, placing cameras in the hands of young people so that they themselves could document and discuss their concerns and perspectives. The research was designed to gain insight about youths' knowledge of food, health, and community food systems. Drawing upon the youth group's insights, we build a framework for building critical consciousness through food justice youth development (FJYD).

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“…More recently, Jamie Oliver's controversial reality TV show "Food Revolution" centered the fight against unhealthy eating and obesity in Huntington, WV, placing the burden of poor food choices on residents of the "fattest city in America" rather than the obesogenic environments produced by inequalities in the wider food system. (Slocum et. al, 2011).…”

Section: The Food Banking Economy In West Virginiamentioning

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The Food Bank Fix: Hunger, Capitalism and Humanitarian Reason

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The Food Bank Fix: Hunger, Capitalism and Humanitarian Reason Joshua Lohnes Drawing on a five-year institutional ethnography of Humanitarian Food Networks (HFNs) in West Virginia, this dissertation explores the moral, political and economic place of the food bank in the corporate environmental food regime. I develop the concept of the food bank fix to theorize the paradoxical relationships between the state, the shadow state, food corporations, local charities and food banks that tie HFNs across the United States together through humanitarian reason. I argue that food banks damp the grinding contradictions of a society awash in food surpluses even as a significant proportion of the population remains at risk of hunger. To buttress this argument, I analyze the geographic process through which the moral impulse of those working to address hunger at the local level is subordinated to institutional logics that resolve crises of overproduction and manufactured food scarcity for a globalized and increasingly integrated food system. I demonstrate how diffuse powers from across this system become concentrated and negotiated at the food bank scale, where an awkward combination of altruism, profit seeking, compassion and rulemaking maintains humanitarian feeding lines in place and linked across space. Theorizing the food banking fix shines a light on one of the glaring contradictions in our food system, namely that regulating food surpluses is itself generative of the food scarcity essential to market rationalities. I am grateful to all those who shaped this research into the thoughts that I present in this manuscript form. A special thank you to food charity directors who took time out of their busy schedules to help me understand the complexity of their work. Thank you to staff at Mountaineer and Facing Hunger food bank for trusting me to study and represent your organizations, and for providing feedback and correction along the way. Members of Conscious Harvest Cooperative in Morgantown kept my thinking on alternatives to dominant charitable food models at the forefront of my mind throughout this project and helped advance my thinking on moral economies, value, gifts, solidarity and mutuality within our complex food system. Special thanks to Dewey, Ted and Mary Hastings for making such a project possible and to

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“Properly, with love, from scratch”

Cited by 27 publications

References 8 publications

Convenience as care: Culinary antinomies in practice

Convenience as care: Culinary antinomies in practice

Food justice youth development: using Photovoice to study urban school food systems

The Food Bank Fix: Hunger, Capitalism and Humanitarian Reason

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