‘The (charitable) pantry is bare’: a critical discourse analysis of Christmas food hamper programs in Canada

Smith-Carrier, Tracy

doi:10.1080/19460171.2020.1722190

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“…Existing work shows the limitations of the shifting balance from state-led welfare provision to a charity model premised on subsidiarity and spontaneous compassion (Lambie-Mumford, 2019). Cloke et al (2017) build on a developed literature that identifies four critiques: charity to people in poverty is premised on and exacerbates asymmetric power relationships; receiving charity is stigmatised; charity constructs poverty as a personal rather than a social problem; and charity obscures economic, social, and policy institutions where poverty is embedded (see also Smith-Carrier, 2020). Nuances within the arguments in support of or against charity illustrate how the debate can transcend binary political ideologies.…”

Section: The Contested Meaning Of Charitymentioning

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“…The representations of these charities thus celebrate the creators and volunteers with an assumption that their work is unambiguously positive for recipients (Smith-Carrier, 2020). When there is evidence that the charities are increasing in size, the media cheers them for their 'empire' status (news.com.au, 2020).…”

Section: Innovative Charity To the Materially Deprived: Two Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Poverty by Design: The Role of Charity and the Cultivated Ethical Citizen

Parsell¹,

Clarke²,

Perales³

2021

Social Policy and Society

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Across numerous countries with advanced welfare states, governments have relied on a hybrid of publicly funded and delivered welfare services and voluntary charity to meet the needs of people in poverty. Driven by austerity and economic downturns, many scholars agree that governments are increasingly relying on charity as a response to poverty. Taking Australia as a case study, this article demonstrates how the decayed welfare state is not just about outsourcing welfare provision to charities, but also a part of a broader project to cultivate a society in which social problems are responded to through spontaneous, community-led initiatives, powered by the ethical commitment of everyday citizens. We show how this project produces poverty through welfare state retrenchment, whilst simultaneously cultivating charity through material and symbolic support from the state. This results in the construction of charity as an end in itself, with little consideration given to its effectiveness in alleviating poverty.

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Section: The Contested Meaning Of Charitymentioning

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Section: Innovative Charity To the Materially Deprived: Two Case Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Poverty by Design: The Role of Charity and the Cultivated Ethical Citizen

Parsell¹,

Clarke²,

Perales³

2021

Social Policy and Society

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confidence: 99%

“…CDA examines language and discourse, ‘by analyzing latent and manifest structural relationships of dominance, power and control as these are constructed and mediated in language’ (Smith-Carrier, 2020: 3). Analyses emphasise how constructions and uses of language portray and, in some instances, legitimise social inequalities (Carant, 2017; Smith-Carrier, 2020). Smith-Carrier and Lawlor (2017: 107) explain,the intent of CDA is to reveal the nature of power in social relations and how these are represented, both tacitly and overtly, in texts, verbal interactions and communicative events.…”

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The Australian Government’s business-friendly employment response to COVID-19: A critical discourse analysis

O’Keeffe

Papadopoulos

2021

Econ. labour relat. rev.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has created economic crises and considerable loss of employment throughout the world. In the Australian context, social distancing restrictions and business closures contributed to a dramatic increase in unemployment, with 780,000 people losing work within weeks of the first COVID-19 outbreaks. Job losses were concentrated in casualised industries such as retail, recreation, arts and culture, hospitality, and accommodation. We examine policy discourses framing independent work, entrepreneurial workers and flexible work relations as essential for ‘economic recovery’, where this means business flexibility, productivity and future economic prosperity. We draw on these framings to show how the equation of flexible work relations and productivity underpins the Australian Government’s response to unemployment caused by the pandemic, as reflected in policy announcements and proposed changes to industrial relations law. In these proposals, constructions of ‘job creation’ and ‘economic recovery’ rationalise industrial relations changes that further empower business, through conflating public and business interest. At the same time, ensuing labour market deregulation and the changing profile of business renders the very idea of ‘jobs’ tendentious. JEL Codes: J08, J28, J31, J38

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“…In practice, the response to food insecurity has continued to reflect neo-liberal patterns of minimal government intervention and an increasing reliance on charitable resources from corporate and philanthropic sources, reinforcing systems of dependency and limiting individual and societal autonomy over food ( Duncan and Claeys, 2018 , Lemke et al, 2022 , Poppendiek, 2014 , Riches, 2011 , Riches and Silvasti, 2014 ). However, community-based responses to food insecurity have since proliferated across North America in reflection of the growing social struggles that communities face ( Riches, 2011 , Smith-Carrier, 2020 ). The principal strategy of addressing food insecurity is to rely on the work of the non-profit and charitable sector at the local community level, many of which rely heavily on donations of both food and funds as well as low-waged or volunteer labour ( Centre for Studies on Food Security 2020 , McIntyre et al, 2016 , Riches and Silvasti, 2014 , Riches and Tarasuk, 2014 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%