The geographies of food banks in the meantime

Geographies of food banks have focused predominantly on issues of neoliberal political-economy and food insecurity. In this paper, we trace alternative understandings of food banking – as spaces of care, and as liminal spaces of encounter capable of incubating political and ethical values, practices...

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Published inProgress in human geography Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 703 - 726
Main Authors Cloke, Paul, May, Jon, Williams, Andrew
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2017
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Ambivalence
Banking
Ethics
Food
Food programs
Food security
Human geography
Insecurity
Neoliberalism
Political economy
Poverty
Welfare
spaces of care
food banks
liminality
food insecurity
ethics of in-common
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ISSN0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI10.1177/0309132516655881

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Summary:Geographies of food banks have focused predominantly on issues of neoliberal political-economy and food insecurity. In this paper, we trace alternative understandings of food banking – as spaces of care, and as liminal spaces of encounter capable of incubating political and ethical values, practices and subjectivities that challenge neoliberal austerity. Our aim is to develop a conceptual approach to voluntary welfare capable both of holding in tension the ambivalent and contradictory dynamics of care and welfare in the meantime(s), and of underlining some of the more hopeful and progressive possibilities that can arise in and through such spaces of care.
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ISSN:0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI:10.1177/0309132516655881