Please see below a call for abstracts for the RGS-IBG 2022 Annual Conference, Newcastle University, 30 August - 2 September 2022 Sponsored by the RGS Food Geographies Research Group
Organisers: Beth Cloughton ([log in to unmask]) and Andreea Bocioaga ([log in to unmask])
Re/Un-covering: from what to where? Consumption ethics of recovery.
The scope of our session is to develop our understanding of individuals' 'recovery' from an ethics of consumption (Hall, 2015) perspective. The ethics of consumption positionality helps uncover the moral negotiations and assumptions that underpin everyday consumption decisions (Lewis and Potter, 2011; Barnett et al., 2010; Bray, 2010, Hall, 2015) specifically in relation to food. The session will focus on empirical work in areas surrounding economic insecurity and food ethics to inform a theoretical understanding of 1) the usability of conceptualisations of recovery and 2) what other, perhaps more appropriate, terms can help us to generate real equitable change.
We first query the notion of 'recovery' and its temporal and temporary connotations. The concept of 'recovery' implies a return to a previous state - a time when we resume a past, shared assumption of normal. Contrastingly, it is evident that an increasing number of individuals facing various insecurities already exist permanently in a state of precarity, loss (Elliott, 2018) and reactivity. This state of precarity underpins every aspect of people's everyday life, where there is no scope for 'recovery', only the mitigation of intensification. This can and will have complex and wide-ranging implications for individuals' everyday and long term well-being (Maddrell, 2020).
Secondly, we draw attention to the increasing scrutiny on individuals' consumption ethics (Cline, 2020) and the displacement of global responsibility for current crises from corporations and governments, onto a homogenised individual- without distinctions between socio-economic contexts (Edelman et al., 2014; Rice et al., 2020). There is a real risk that the 'post-pandemic' recovery narrative will similarly put the moral burden of responsibility on the individual to mitigate structurally imposed problems as a result of increasing pressures on health systems, intensified food insecurities, and growing emotional labours around recoveries.
By focusing on the ethical negotiations of 'recovery' and mitigation surrounding food and everyday life, we seek to understand the complex expectations and pressures and the temporal entanglements that individuals living in various deprivations face. This is crucial for any equitable change to come about where a 'recovering' cannot happen and rather we propose a series of repairings and mitigations.
The session will be 15-minute presentations based on submitted abstracts, responding to the discussion title: Re/Un-covering: from what to where? The consumption ethics of recovery. The presenting panel will serve as a working group to develop a paper to submit to journals such as Sustainability, Antipode, Consumption and Society, and others.
Please send abstracts of max. 300 words to Beth [log in to unmask] and Andreea [log in to unmask] by 18th March 2022. Expressions of interest and other enquiries are also welcomed. Please indicate whether you would prefer remote or in-person attendance.
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