Food rescue, care, and everyday social action
Food rescue is praised by advocates as reducing both waste and food poverty. However, critics argue that food rescue rarely challenges underlying structural inequalities.
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Description
In this presentation we draw on our research with Kaibosh, a well-known food rescue organisation in Wellington, to explore how everyday actions coalesce around notions of care. We argue that Kaibosh and food rescue enables volunteers, donors and staff to engage in material actions that address matters of concern. We draw on Cloke et al.’s (2016) framing of care that can happen 'in the meantime' to move beyond limiting notions of political action that is understood through the binary of reform or revolution.
Speaker Bios
Dr Gradon Diprose is a Senior Lecturer at Massey University in the School of People, Environment and Planning. He has a background in geography, is a member of the Community Economies Collective, and primarily draws on feminist thinking to research applied environmental and social issues in Aotearoa.
Dr Louise Lee is a senior lecturer in business management at the Open Polytechnic. Louise’s research is positioned within the broad realm of the theory and practice of corporate responsibility, business ethics and sustainability. She is a member of the International Association for Business and Society and is particularly interested in cross-sector collaborative action (involving business) for complex social and environmental issues and employee engagement in corporate responsibility initiatives.