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Food Infrastructure and social justice in post COVID-19 cities: multi-disciplinary perspectives 
Convenors:
Nicolás Valenzuela-Levi (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María)
Javiera Ponce-Méndez (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María)
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Chair:
Nicolás Valenzuela-Levi (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María)
Format:
Paper panel
Stream:
Embedding justice in development
Location:
B402, 4th floor Brunei Gallery
Sessions:
Wednesday 26 June, -, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

The panel welcomes papers - from multiple disciplines - that interrogate how urban food infrastructure suffered, reacted, and evolved during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in cities, particularly in the Global South.

Long Abstract:

Food infrastructure involves the network of resources, objects, activities and actors that drive the production, processing, sale, purchase, preparation and consumption of food (Bloom and Hinrichs 2011; Malasan 2019; Clark et al 2020; Hayden 2021; Dickau et al. to 2021).

The COVID-19 lockdowns, the subsequent economic crisis, the war in Ukraine and food price increases have generated a complex scenario of food insecurity globally. Yet, the experience of food insecurity, and the efforts to tackle it, occur in specific territories, many of which are cities. On the one hand, during the pandemic, many local communities depended on grassroots initiatives such as soup kitchens and food banks (Ortiz and Millan, 2022, Paganini et al., 2021, Rashmi and Lekshmi, 2021, McShane and Coffey, 2022). On the other hand, when states attempted to intervene, their presence generated different relationships with community efforts, ranging between cooperation, replacement, indifference and conflict.

The panel welcomes papers - from multiple disciplines - that interrogate how food infrastructure suffered, reacted, and evolved during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in cities, particularly in the Global South. What are the socio-spatial patterns of urban food infrastructure networks? Did these patterns change during and after the pandemic? What are the roles of the State, grass-roots initiatives and the market? What is the relationship between urban food infrastructure and social justice?

The papers accepted in this panel will be invited to participate in a Special Issue in a Web of Science indexed journal.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Wednesday 26 June, 2024, -
Session 2 Wednesday 26 June, 2024, -
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