Risk and responsibility in the corporate food regime: research pathways beyond the COVID-19 crisis

Bowness, Evan; James, D. G. L.; Desmarais, Annette Aurélie; McIntyre, Angela; Robin, Tabitha; Dring, Colin; Wittman, Hannah

doi:10.1080/07078552.2020.1849986

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“…This has led to the corporate concentration of wealth and power in both the Canadian and global food system (Clapp, 2018;Holt-Giménez & Shattuck, 2011;McMichael, 2005) while leaving individuals, communities, and states with diminishing control and influence (Fuchs & Clapp, 2009). Yet transnational corporations are often difficult to hold accountable for their role in multiple health and socioecological crises (Bowness et al, 2021), including epidemics and pandemics (Wallace, 2016), toxic chemical exposure (Burger & Bellon, 2020;Elver & Tuncak, 2017;Shattuck, 2020), and biodiversity loss and climate change (Campbell et al, 2017). This is in part due to the obscuring effects-or mental and geographic "distance"-introduced by industrialization, globalization, and financialization (Clapp, 2014(Clapp, , 2015Goodman & Redclift, 1991;Goodman & Watts, 1997;Kneen, 2002).…”

Section: Part 1 Dismantling Processes Of Accumulation: the 5ds Of Red...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Dismantling and rebuilding the food system after COVID-19: Ten principles for redistribution and regeneration

James

Bowness

Robin

et al. 2021

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and cost economies trillions of dollars. Yet state responses have done little to address the negative externalities of the corporate food regime, which has contributed to, and exacerbated, the impacts of the pandemic. In this paper, we build on calls from the grassroots for states to undertake a strategic dismantling of the corporate food regime through redistributive policies and actions across scales, financed through reparations by key actors in the corporate food regime. We present a strategic policy framework drawn from the food sovereignty movement, outlined here as the “5Ds of Redistribution”: Decolonization, Decarbonization, Diversification, Democratization, and Decommodification. We then consider what would need to occur post-redistribution to ensure that the corporate food regime does not re-emerge, and pose five guiding principles grounded in Indigenous food sover¬eignty to rebuild regenerative food systems, out¬lined here as the “5Rs of Regeneration”: Relation¬ality, Respect, Reciprocity, Responsibility, and Rights. Together these ten principles for redistri¬bution and regeneration provide a framework for food systems transformation after COVID-19.

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Section: Part 1 Dismantling Processes Of Accumulation: the 5ds Of Red...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Dismantling and rebuilding the food system after COVID-19: Ten principles for redistribution and regeneration

James

Bowness

Robin

et al. 2021

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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“…Some frame these conditions in terms of maldistribution of risk and responsibility. Bowness et al (2020) describe this as organized irresponsibility. They point out that powerful players in our food system create, benefit from, and escape responsibility for systemic risks that show up throughout the globe in the form of pesticide poisoning, food insecurity, land destruction and dispossession, income inequality, and dangerous working conditions, among others.…”

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Critical pedagogy for food systems transformation: Identifying and addressing social-justice problems in food systems and society

Allen

Gillon

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Current crises in the food system have amplified and illuminated the need for urgent social change to increase equity and survivability. Global crises such as climate change, environmental degradation, and pandemics increasingly disrupt everyday lives and limit possibilities in the food system. However, the prevalence of these crises has not yet engendered commensurate rethinking on how to address these increasingly evident and desperate social problems. Food and food systems are at the core of survival and food systems issues are deeply intertwined with and inextricable from the structures and operating principles of society itself. Effective and equitable change requires new ways of thinking, ways that are different than those that led to the problems in the first place. This requires identifying, conceptualizing, and addressing social problems through critical inquiry that places social justice at the center in order to render visible and explicit the social injustices in problem causes and consequences, as well as transformative pathways toward social justice. One of the most important domains for this work is that of higher education, an arena in which crucial conceptual thinking can be supported. In this brief article we review why critical pedagogy should be a priority in higher education; discuss critical pedagogy for food systems equity; and illustrate how we apply critical pedagogy in the Food Systems and Society online Master of Science program at Oregon Health & Science University.

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“…It demonstrates a shift with considering risk, involving uncertainty from unexpected hazards that materialise from human progress. Notable is the COVID-19 pandemic, and association with factory farming, transforming into adverse events, that yet, appeared invisible to the senses (Bowness et al , 2020). Risk can evoke something of a mystery owing to its ability to materialise far away despite having global ramifications.…”

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The risk of risk management: adopting critical theories to explore clinical risk concerns in mental health care

Deering

Williams

2021

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline several critical risk theories and explore their application to risk concerns in mental health care. This will contribute to the on-going debate about risk management practices and the impact these might have on recovery and social inclusion. Notably, while risks like suicide can be therapeutically addressed, risk management may involve paternalistic practices that exclude the participation needed for recovery. Design/methodology/approach A viewpoint of key risk theories will be presented to provide a critical eye about some clinical risk concerns in mental health care. Implications for recovery and social inclusion will then be discussed alongside direction for practice and research. Findings Clinical concerns seemed to involve difficulties with uncertainty, holding onto expertise, and the othering of patients through risk. These concerns suggest the patient voice might become lost, particularly within the backdrop of clinical fears about blame. Alternatively, a relational approach to risk management could have merit, while patient expertise may develop understanding in how to improve risk management practices. Originality/value Clinical concerns appear more than managing potential harms; it can involve appraising behaviours around societal norms, explaining to an extent why mental illness might be addressed in terms of risks. While the points raised in the paper support existing findings about risk management, the underlying reasons drawing on the critical risk theories are less explored.

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Risk and responsibility in the corporate food regime: research pathways beyond the COVID-19 crisis

Cited by 10 publications

References 53 publications

Dismantling and rebuilding the food system after COVID-19: Ten principles for redistribution and regeneration

Dismantling and rebuilding the food system after COVID-19: Ten principles for redistribution and regeneration

Critical pedagogy for food systems transformation: Identifying and addressing social-justice problems in food systems and society

The risk of risk management: adopting critical theories to explore clinical risk concerns in mental health care

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