Food justice for all?: searching for the 'justice multiple' in UK food movements

Coulson, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3082-2377 and Milbourne, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3346-885X 2020. Food justice for all?: searching for the 'justice multiple' in UK food movements. Agriculture and Human Values 39 , pp. 43-58. 10.1007/s10460-020-10142-5

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine diverse political philosophical conceptualisations of justice and interrogate how these contested understandings are drawn upon in the burgeoning food justice scholarship. We suggest that three interconnected dimensions of justice—plurality, the spatial–temporal and the more-than-human—deserve further analytical attention and propose the notion of the ‘justice multiple’ to bring together a multiplicity of framings and situated practices of (food) justice. Given the lack of critical engagement food justice has received as both a concept and social movement in the context of the United Kingdom (UK), we draw upon empirical research with practitioners and activists involved with heterogenous food movements working at the local, regional and national level and apply the justice multiple concept to the interview data. We highlight the diverse ways that justice is discussed in terms of access, fairness, empowerment, rights and dignity that reflect established organisational discursive framings and the fragmented nature of food system advocacy and activism. Based on this insight, we argue that a plurivocal, relational conceptualisation of socioecological justice can help enhance the multiple politics of food justice, pluralise UK food movement praxis and nurture avenues for broader coalition-building across the food system.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Additional Information:	This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
Publisher:	Springer Verlag
ISSN:	0889-048X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 August 2020
Date of Acceptance:	12 August 2020
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 16:27
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/134512

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