Embodiment, care and practice in a community kitchen. Issue 2 (13th December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Phillips, Mary; Willatt, Alice
• Is Part Of: Gender work and organization. Volume 27:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 198
• Page End: 217
• Publication Date: 2019-12-13
• Subjects: feminist -- ethics of care -- ecofeminism -- embodiment -- activism -- emergency food provisioning; Sex role in the work environment -- Periodicals; Sexual division of labor -- Periodicals; Sex discrimination in employment -- Periodicals; Organizational sociology -- Periodicals; Industries -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 306.361505
• DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12419
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0968-6673

Abstract

Abstract : This article explores activist practices in a community kitchen based in the south of the United Kingdom with a dual focus on social and environmental justice. It draws on these practices to develop further feminist, and specifically ecofeminist, concepts of care ethics by arguing that embodiment is an essential element in lived relationships of care. Moreover, we show that these embodied components enable learning that can disrupt settled understandings of social and environmental injustices, including negotiating tensions relating to class and race. We demonstrate how this disruption combines with imaginative processes to stimulate critical political analysis of the relationship between local contexts of need and broader socio‐political structures and power relations. Crucially, we work towards illuminating how care ethics and social practice combine to stimulate and inform political action.