Dr David Beck D.J.Beck@salford.ac.uk
Lecturer
The foodbank symbolises a changing landscape of social insecurity and welfare conditionality. Attending to decision making within the foodbank system, this article argues that foodbanks, and their referral-system creates a bureaucratic ‘moral maze’ identifying people as ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’ of help. Maintaining a moral distance, organised religious foodbanks are reliant upon a complex outsourcing of moral decisions and walk a fine balance between supply (donations) and demand (use). Within this article, we argue that the foodbank landscape is akin to navigating a moral maze, and that this creates, and justifies decisions of deservingness.
Beck, D., & Gwilym, H. (2020). The moral maze of foodbank use. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 28(3), 383-399. https://doi.org/10.1332/175982720X15905998909942
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 16, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 15, 2020 |
Publication Date | Oct 1, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Jun 25, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 15, 2021 |
Journal | Journal of Poverty and Social Justice |
Print ISSN | 1759-8273 |
Electronic ISSN | 1759-8281 |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Volume | 28 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 383-399 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1332/175982720X15905998909942 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1332/175982720X15905998909942 |
Related Public URLs | http://policypress.co.uk/journals/journal-of-poverty-and-social-justice |
Additional Information | Access Information : This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Beck, D., & Gwilym, H. (2020). The moral maze of foodbank use. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/175982720X15905998909942 |
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