Building Capacity Between the Private Emergency Food System and the Local Food Movement: Working Toward Food Justice and Sovereignty in the Global North

McEntee, Jesse C.; Naumova, Elena N.

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2012.031.012

Cited by 22 publications

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“…Before further discussion, we see utility in providing a clear foundation for our employment of the concept of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism has been used to describe the “political philosophy that promotes market‐based rather than state‐based solutions to social problems” (McEntee and Naumova , p.248). However, nuanced understandings and projections of neoliberalism are continually being studied and developed, which makes creation of a single unified definition difficult.…”

Section: Neoliberalism Urban Political Ecology and Food Justicementioning

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Moving the Field of Food Justice Forward Through the Lens of Urban Political Ecology

2014

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Food justice has emerged as a powerful social movement across the USA as well as an increasingly studied academic concept. In many circumstances, the food justice movement operates to reject the neoliberal mechanisms that dominate today's food system, but simultaneously needs to operate within this system (to a degree) in order to exist. The movement's engagement with larger neoliberal structures, such as the increasingly consolidated transnational food retail industry, can lead to it being co‐opted. For instance, selective patronage campaigns focused on the local scale may create market mechanisms that are alternative to those of the conventional market by circumventing intermediaries, but they operate along similar lines of logic that fetishize the commoditization of food for profit. We propose that urban political ecology, mainly through its emphasis on process and outcome, offers a frame to keep both outcomes (such as food insecurity) and processes (governing entities and regulations) associated with food justice in mind, while not shifting the movement too far from its central objectives. Food justice, through an urban political ecology lens, can shed light on the symptoms of unjust access to food within the food system, while simultaneously bringing attention to the insidious causes of these problems, which are rooted in the commodification of food and deregulation of the marketplace.

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Section: Neoliberalism Urban Political Ecology and Food Justicementioning

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2014

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“…Several critics of the PPFAS connect these failings to neoliberal trends toward devolution and privatization of responsibility for social welfare (McEntee and Naumova 2012;Parson 2014;Riches 2002;Warshawsky 2010). Indeed, the PPFAS emerged in a context of and is shaped by neoliberal logics.…”

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Beyond the Shadow State: The Public–Private Food Assistance System as Networked Governance

Rosenthal

Newman

2018

Urban Affairs Review

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The public–private food assistance system (PPFAS) emerged during the 1970s to address “emergency” food needs and has since grown into a regularized social welfare system of grocery and meal provision and related program delivery, realized through the collective efforts of organizations and individuals. We explore the context, history, and organization of the PPFAS to better understand how and why public and private actors work together to provide for the social welfare of poor people. We find that the PPFAS is organized as a multiactor, multiscalar network within which the relations between state, market, and civil society are continuously negotiated. The PPFAS may seem like the quintessential example of privatized governance with its attendant movement of decision making outside of the public sphere Rather than consider the PPFAS as a neoliberal fait accompli, we view the PPFAS as a site of contestation about how social welfare and, more broadly, democratic governance is organized.

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“…In this respect, the organization is attempting to work to both improve the quality of food provided in the short-term as well as work on long-term efforts to reenvision the foodscape (cf. McEntee and Naumova, 2012;Wilson, 2012).…”

Section: Community Food Programs: Contact Zones Politics and The Rimentioning

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Urban Foodscapes: Repositioning Food in Urban Studies Through the Case of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Miewald¹,

Aiello²,

McCann³

2017

The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies

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Building Capacity Between the Private Emergency Food System and the Local Food Movement: Working Toward Food Justice and Sovereignty in the Global North

Cited by 22 publications

References 41 publications

Moving the Field of Food Justice Forward Through the Lens of Urban Political Ecology

Moving the Field of Food Justice Forward Through the Lens of Urban Political Ecology

Beyond the Shadow State: The Public–Private Food Assistance System as Networked Governance

Urban Foodscapes: Repositioning Food in Urban Studies Through the Case of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

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