The politics of international agri-food policy: discourses of trade-oriented food security and food sovereignty
In: Environmental politics, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 216-234
ISSN: 1743-8934
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In: Environmental politics, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 216-234
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: Environmental politics, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 216-234
ISSN: 0964-4016
In: Wellbeing, space and society, Band 2, S. 100005
ISSN: 2666-5581
In: Social policy and society: SPS ; a journal of the Social Policy Association, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 408-425
ISSN: 1475-3073
The on-going rise in demand experienced by voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) providing emergency food aid has been described as a sign of a social and public health crisis in the UK (Loopstra, 2018; Lambie-Mumford, 2019), compounded since 2020 by the impact of (and responses to) Covid 19 (Power et al., 2020). In this article we adopted a social practice approach to understanding the work of food bank volunteering. We identify how 'helping others', 'deploying coping strategies' and 'creating atmospheres' are key specific (and connected) forms of shared social practice. Further, these practices are sometimes suffused by faith-based practice. The analysis offers insights into how such spaces of care and encounter (Williams et al., 2016; Cloke et al., 2017) function, considers the implications for these distinctive organisational forms (the growth of which has been subject to justified critique) and suggests avenues for future research.
In: Qualitative research, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 334-350
ISSN: 1741-3109
Synthesising qualitative research involves working through difficult practical issues. Drawing upon our collective experience of undertaking three meta-ethnographies, we consider the forms of work – the practical action and practical reasoning – comprising this kind of synthesis and the difference they make to a meta-ethnography. We detail the origins and aims of meta-ethnography, and present a review of existing meta-ethnographies with a specific focus on the methods the authors reported as central to the conduct of meta-ethnography. We consider the implications of these methods and the reason for the presence (and absence) of particular practices in reporting on meta-ethnographies. Drawing upon our own experiences of conducting meta-ethnographies we focus on the methods used in two key practices central to meta-ethnography: 'reading' and 'conceptual innovation'. We conclude by discussing how the meta-ethnographic process requires active reading, a recognition of multiplicity, a realistic approach to conceptual innovation and, importantly, collaborative work.