Melanie Bedore
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melanie Bedore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Bedore |
| SIGNATURE | BEDORE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
I was purchasing it; it wasn't given to me
In response to food access challenges, local organisers are developing community food projects (CFPs) such as good food box programmes, mobile food vending, and non-profit grocery stores, which (re)introduce affordable retail food options into under-served communities. This paper explores the patronage of such retail-based CFPs as dignity work. Whereas Jacobson (e.g., 2009a) elaborates a typology of social processes through which people undertake…
Socio-spatial relations of care in community food project patronage
In light of greater attention to the ethical dimensions of consumption and consumer behaviour in recent years, researchers are increasingly excavating the ethical bases of consumer engagement in various food procurement channels. Only a fairly narrow range of usual suspects has been the subject of study, however, including conventional grocery stores and community supported agriculture. This article considers the same question about community foo…
Food Desertification
While food deserts create whole sets of tangible consequences for people living within them, the problem has yet to be the subject of much normative, in-depth evaluation as an urban political economy of food access. This paper provides a critical analysis of a specific food desert and its responses, drawing on a case study of the low-income, spatially segregated North End of the small city of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The main thrust of the pape…
The convening power of food as growth machine politics
Why do some partnerships form successfully while others fail? Much has been written about the conditions for successful partnership formation, however the qualities of the policy issue itself have rarely been central to this debate. Drawing on qualitative research about a food policymaking initiative in Baltimore, Maryland, this article explores the ‘convening power’ of food as a policy topic, and the relationship between civic capital and the po…
Geographies of capital formation and rescaling
Although the “food desert” concept has captured the public imagination and spurred public policy efforts in many North American cities, the term has been critiqued by academics for being definitionally and methodologically vague, and for providing an incomplete picture of the complexity of food access. Rather than dismiss the study of urban, inner‐city food deserts, however, scholars can study disparities in retail food access through a historica…
Revisiting the Politics of Class in Urban Development
We contribute to a revised politics of class in urban development by drawing on recent theoretical work on class tensions and inequalities as a barrier to more egalitarian and sustainable economic development. We provide evidence from an empirical study of the social dynamics of economic performance in the city of Kingston, Ontario, to argue that class politics is a key dimension of social dynamics in this unusually segmented and spatially segreg…
Just Urban Food Systems
Food geography has exploded as a subfield of human geography in recent years; however, normative ideas of justice are not always explicitly addressed. The concept of a 'just urban food system' can incorporate ideals of justice into the issue of declining retail food accessibility for low-income urban communities -'food deserts'- which have yet to be analysed through a lens of justice. In this article, I review geographers' and planners' research …
I was purchasing it; it wasn't given to me
In response to food access challenges, local organisers are developing community food projects (CFPs) such as good food box programmes, mobile food vending, and non-profit grocery stores, which (re)introduce affordable retail food options into under-served communities. This paper explores the patronage of such retail-based CFPs as dignity work. Whereas Jacobson (e.g., 2009a) elaborates a typology of social processes through which people undertake…
Just Urban Food Systems
Food geography has exploded as a subfield of human geography in recent years; however, normative ideas of justice are not always explicitly addressed. The concept of a 'just urban food system' can incorporate ideals of justice into the issue of declining retail food accessibility for low-income urban communities -'food deserts'- which have yet to be analysed through a lens of justice. In this article, I review geographers' and planners' research …
Food Desertification
While food deserts create whole sets of tangible consequences for people living within them, the problem has yet to be the subject of much normative, in-depth evaluation as an urban political economy of food access. This paper provides a critical analysis of a specific food desert and its responses, drawing on a case study of the low-income, spatially segregated North End of the small city of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The main thrust of the pape…
Geographies of capital formation and rescaling
Although the “food desert” concept has captured the public imagination and spurred public policy efforts in many North American cities, the term has been critiqued by academics for being definitionally and methodologically vague, and for providing an incomplete picture of the complexity of food access. Rather than dismiss the study of urban, inner‐city food deserts, however, scholars can study disparities in retail food access through a historica…
Socio-spatial relations of care in community food project patronage
In light of greater attention to the ethical dimensions of consumption and consumer behaviour in recent years, researchers are increasingly excavating the ethical bases of consumer engagement in various food procurement channels. Only a fairly narrow range of usual suspects has been the subject of study, however, including conventional grocery stores and community supported agriculture. This article considers the same question about community foo…
The convening power of food as growth machine politics
Why do some partnerships form successfully while others fail? Much has been written about the conditions for successful partnership formation, however the qualities of the policy issue itself have rarely been central to this debate. Drawing on qualitative research about a food policymaking initiative in Baltimore, Maryland, this article explores the ‘convening power’ of food as a policy topic, and the relationship between civic capital and the po…
Revisiting the Politics of Class in Urban Development
We contribute to a revised politics of class in urban development by drawing on recent theoretical work on class tensions and inequalities as a barrier to more egalitarian and sustainable economic development. We provide evidence from an empirical study of the social dynamics of economic performance in the city of Kingston, Ontario, to argue that class politics is a key dimension of social dynamics in this unusually segmented and spatially segreg…
Just Urban Food Systems
Food geography has exploded as a subfield of human geography in recent years; however, normative ideas of justice are not always explicitly addressed. The concept of a 'just urban food system' can incorporate ideals of justice into the issue of declining retail food accessibility for low-income urban communities -'food deserts'- which have yet to be analysed through a lens of justice. In this article, I review geographers' and planners' research …
Revisiting the Politics of Class in Urban Development
We contribute to a revised politics of class in urban development by drawing on recent theoretical work on class tensions and inequalities as a barrier to more egalitarian and sustainable economic development. We provide evidence from an empirical study of the social dynamics of economic performance in the city of Kingston, Ontario, to argue that class politics is a key dimension of social dynamics in this unusually segmented and spatially segreg…
Geographies of capital formation and rescaling
Although the “food desert” concept has captured the public imagination and spurred public policy efforts in many North American cities, the term has been critiqued by academics for being definitionally and methodologically vague, and for providing an incomplete picture of the complexity of food access. Rather than dismiss the study of urban, inner‐city food deserts, however, scholars can study disparities in retail food access through a historica…
Food Desertification
While food deserts create whole sets of tangible consequences for people living within them, the problem has yet to be the subject of much normative, in-depth evaluation as an urban political economy of food access. This paper provides a critical analysis of a specific food desert and its responses, drawing on a case study of the low-income, spatially segregated North End of the small city of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The main thrust of the pape…
The convening power of food as growth machine politics
Why do some partnerships form successfully while others fail? Much has been written about the conditions for successful partnership formation, however the qualities of the policy issue itself have rarely been central to this debate. Drawing on qualitative research about a food policymaking initiative in Baltimore, Maryland, this article explores the ‘convening power’ of food as a policy topic, and the relationship between civic capital and the po…
I was purchasing it; it wasn't given to me
In response to food access challenges, local organisers are developing community food projects (CFPs) such as good food box programmes, mobile food vending, and non-profit grocery stores, which (re)introduce affordable retail food options into under-served communities. This paper explores the patronage of such retail-based CFPs as dignity work. Whereas Jacobson (e.g., 2009a) elaborates a typology of social processes through which people undertake…
Socio-spatial relations of care in community food project patronage
In light of greater attention to the ethical dimensions of consumption and consumer behaviour in recent years, researchers are increasingly excavating the ethical bases of consumer engagement in various food procurement channels. Only a fairly narrow range of usual suspects has been the subject of study, however, including conventional grocery stores and community supported agriculture. This article considers the same question about community foo…
Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Food security (3 works) · Food systems (3 works) · Law (3 works)