Moral economies of food and geographies of responsibility

Jackson, Peter, Ward, Neil and Russell, Polly (2009) Moral economies of food and geographies of responsibility. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34 (1). pp. 12-24. ISSN 1475-5661

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Abstract

This paper uses the concept of ‘moral economy’ to challenge the conventional view that defines morality and the market as oppositional terms. Drawing on evidence from life history interviews with key actors in the British food industry, the paper outlines how moral and ethical questions are articulated through notions of space and time. Using case study material from the chicken and sugar industries, the paper examines the way that ethical and moral issues are expressed through the dimensions of time (via notions of remembering and forgetting) and space (via notions of connecting and disconnecting) and via notions of visibility and invisibility. The paper concludes by examining how our understanding of the moral economies of food can be advanced through the adoption of a relational view of geographical scale and temporal connection, contrasting the attribution of individual blame with a politics of collective responsibility.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	moral economy,food and farming,space and time,chicken,sugar,britain
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences
UEA Research Groups:	University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	Nicola Secker
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2011 09:08
Last Modified:	10 Jan 2023 16:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/26945
DOI:	10.1111/j.1475-5661.2008.00330.x

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