Abstract
This paper explores activist practices in a community kitchen based in the south of the United Kingdom with a dual focus on social and environmental justice. It draws on these practices to develop further feminist, and specifically ecofeminist, concepts of care ethics by arguing that embodiment is an essential element in lived relationships of care. Moreover, we show that these embodied components enable learning that can disrupt settled understandings of social and environmental injustices, including negotiating tensions relating to class and race. We demonstrate how this disruption combines with imaginative processes to stimulate critical political analysis of the relationship between local contexts of need and broader socio-political structures and power relations. Crucially, we work towards illuminating how care ethics and social practice combine to stimulate and inform political action.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 198-217 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Gender, Work and Organization |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 1 Nov 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 13 Dec 2019 |
Keywords
- feminist
- ethics of care
- ecofeminism
- embodiment
- activism
- emergency food provision