Three Foodbanks in a Decade of Austerity: Foodbank Affective Atmospheres

Denning, Stephanie

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“…Consistent with trends evident in contemporary geographies of care (Power and Hall 2018), food rescue organisations fill gaps in the provision of services and fulfilment of rights generated by neoliberal policies and practices (Denning 2021;May et al 2019;Poppendieck 1999). Work on food banks points to how this depoliticises hunger and surplus food by failing to address the systemic injustices that produce these two extremes while also reproducing stigma and engendering feelings of shame for recipients (May et al 2019(May et al :1254.…”

Section: Rights Charity and Carementioning

confidence: 79%

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Moving from Risky to Response‐able Care

Turner

Tam

2022

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Food rescue is commonly depicted as a means of caring for the hungry and "the environment". By paying close attention to care practices in food rescue through a review of international literature and fieldwork in Australia's capital city, we highlight the dominance of risky care. For "Good Samaritan" donors, risky care enables the problems generated by surplus food to be transferred to food rescue organisations. This transferral focuses attention on the materialities of surplus at the point of collection, effectively obscuring and contracting the spatial, scalar and temporal becomings of excess food. Repeated practices of risky care are shown to: normalise reliance on rapid, agile food rescue organisations; negate human/more-than-human entanglements in mutual relations of care; and compromise fulfilment of recipients' right to food. Instead, we identify the need to support and amplify modes of response-able care to more equitably distribute risks throughout food flows.

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Section: Rights Charity and Carementioning

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Moving from Risky to Response‐able Care

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Tam

2022

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“…Many commentators have rightly described the last decade as a decade of austerity and neoliberal reform (see Denning, 2021; Farnsworth, 2021; Ortiz & Cummins, 2021; Barford & Gray, 2022; Markantonatou, 2022) partly due to the sheer number 1 of countries that have implemented austerity measures within that period. Austerity – at its core, is a deliberate government effort to reduce public debts and budget deficits through spending cuts among others (Guccio et al, 2024) – has been implemented widely across the world.…”

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The hidden costs of austerity for social programmes in the Global South: Qualitative insights from two complementary services in Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme

Mohammed

2024

J of Intl Development

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Promoted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in particular, fiscal austerity measures have been extensively implemented across the world in the last decade as a policy prescription to address the impacts of economic shocks. Consequently, the implementation of austerity has engendered a vast body of austerity impact assessment literature in the Global North, in particular. Although austerity measures have been equally implemented (and longer) in Global South contexts, the same level of intellectual curiosity has not been dedicated to understanding the human and social costs of austerity in the Global South. To help fill this gap, this paper examines the implications of fiscal austerity for the delivery of two complementary programmes linked to Ghana's conditional cash transfer (CCT) — the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme. The paper adopts a qualitative design where semi‐structured interviews are conducted with (a) two LEAP officers, (b) two headteachers and (c) 35 LEAP beneficiaries in northern Ghana. The findings show that within the current context of fiscal austerity, mainly mediated through the government's commitment to “cut expenditures to the bone”, the two complementary services have been unfunded and thus do not exist in practice. The non‐existence of complementary services has dire consequences for children's education as well as undermines Ghana's poverty reduction attempts through the implementation of the LEAP programme.

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“…In the last decade, ‘the question of food banks’ (Denning, 2021, p. 1022) has attracted considerable and wide‐ranging attention, particularly within human geography, sociology and social anthropology (Caplan, 2016; Lambie‐Mumford & Green, 2017; Lambie‐Mumford & Loopstra, 2020). To date, research on older people's use of food banks has largely focused on their absence from these spaces and factors contributing towards such a trend.…”

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Aged spaces in an era of austerity: Food bank use by older people

Slocombe

2023

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In the context of austerity and the COVID‐19 pandemic, this paper draws on 17 interviews conducted with frontline staff and volunteers to explore the use of food banks by older people in a highly deprived North‐West borough. Despite high levels of poverty amongst this age group, older people are infrequent users of food banks and it is their absence from these spaces, as opposed to their use of and experiences within food banks, that has often gained attention. By foregrounding this age group, this paper highlights different circumstances of use, generational dynamics involving heightened feelings of shame, and how food banks function as social spaces for older people. In doing so, this paper adds to literature in gerontology around spaces of ageing, as well as research on food banks, by highlighting how experiences in these spaces are differentiated by age. This paper advances discussions around the impact of austerity on the everyday lives of older people. Due to the timing of this research, it also gives insight into how older people and informal social spaces have been affected by the COVID‐19 pandemic.

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Three Foodbanks in a Decade of Austerity: Foodbank Affective Atmospheres

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Moving from Risky to Response‐able Care

Moving from Risky to Response‐able Care

The hidden costs of austerity for social programmes in the Global South: Qualitative insights from two complementary services in Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme

Aged spaces in an era of austerity: Food bank use by older people

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