Classens Michael, Martin Mary Anne
University of Toronto, Canada.
Trent University, Canada.
Cap Class. 2024 Dec;48(4):635-656. doi: 10.1177/03098168231199912. Epub 2023 Sep 23.
From April 2020 to December 2021, the Canadian federal government earmarked $330,000,000 through the Emergency Food Security Fund to address food insecurity during the COVID-19 global pandemic. These funds were disbursed through a handful of national and regional emergency food and food justice agencies to smaller front-line organizations for the purchase of emergency food provisions and personal protective equipment, and to hire additional workers. We theorize these dynamics within the broader processes of neoliberalization and argue that the Canadian federal government was conscripting food justice and community development organizations into its efforts to address dramatically increasing rates of food insecurity across the country through charity emergency food provisioning. Within Peck and Tickell's stylized conceptions of the destructive (roll-back) and creative (roll-out) moments of the process of neoliberalization, we frame the crisis of COVID-19 as exposing a form of recalibration (roll-call) neoliberalism. We focus on this dynamic specifically within the context of household food insecurity in Canadian communities and argue that the federal government's funding regime during the global pandemic effectively directed food justice organizations (and by extension, the populace in general) away from a more ambitious social change agenda towards the more acceptable strategy (in neoliberal terms) of emergency food provisioning services.
从2020年4月到2021年12月，加拿大联邦政府通过紧急粮食安全基金拨款3.3亿加元，以应对新冠疫情全球大流行期间的粮食不安全问题。这些资金通过一些国家和地区的紧急粮食及粮食正义机构发放给较小的一线组织，用于购买应急食品和个人防护装备，并雇佣额外的工作人员。我们在新自由主义化的更广泛进程中对这些动态进行理论分析，并认为加拿大联邦政府正在将粮食正义和社区发展组织纳入其努力，通过慈善应急食品供应来应对全国范围内急剧上升的粮食不安全率。在佩克和蒂克尔对新自由主义化过程中破坏性（回滚）和创造性（推广）时刻的程式化概念中，我们将新冠疫情危机视为一种重新校准（点名）新自由主义的形式。我们特别关注加拿大社区家庭粮食不安全背景下的这种动态，并认为全球大流行期间联邦政府的资金制度有效地引导粮食正义组织（进而一般民众）远离更具雄心的社会变革议程，转向（从新自由主义角度来看）更可接受的应急食品供应服务战略。
