Social Justice Research - *CLOSED* Call for Papers: Justice and Food
Guest Editors: Adel Daoud and Jonas Bååth
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 1, 2021
Just allocation, consumption, and production of food is a pressing global issue. While food is on aggregate in abundance in the Global North, the poorest of the Global South face artificial food scarcity. This condition is comparably new. Historically, insufficient food raised in cycles, and thus almost all societies periodically feared the onset of famines. Contemporarily, while the Global North sees this periodicity of famines as a memory of the past, the Global South live with this still. Thus, what the global community struggles with today is not producing enough food, but to allocate food in a just manner. Just allocation has a clear pragmatic meaning: supplying everyone with sufficient food to satisfy basic nutritional requirements. Yet, questions remain on articulating theories and methods for the just allocation of food, and understanding its social, economic, and environmental dimensions. This special issue of Social Justice Research engages with multiple perspectives on food justice, welcoming studies that examine the nature and consequences of the dynamics of Scarcity, Abundance, and Sufficiency (SAS), with a particular focus on health, poverty, famines, unsustainable supply, or overconsumption.
We invite submissions on food justice in general, but also submissions with a particular focus on the relation between justice and the allocation and supply of scarce, abundant, or sufficient quantities and qualities of food. The focus of such submissions should engage with the theoretical framework of SAS (Bååth and Daoud, forthcoming; Daoud, 2011, 2018) and the social, political, and economic organization of producing and distributing food in society (Bååth, 2018, 2020; Daoud, 2007; Levenstein, 1993; Sen, 1983). We welcome both theoretical innovations (e.g., Daoud et al., 2020) and analyses using qualitative or quantitative methods. Topics may range from historical case studies (e.g., Prasad, 2012) to analyses of contemporary international organizations (e.g., Daoud et al., 2018).
We welcome submissions including but not limited to ones linking SAS and food justice with the following themes:
- Allocation
- Consumption and consumerism
- Famines and starvation
- Food and agricultural policy
- Food production and agriculture
- Institutions and international organizations
- Markets and marketing
- Poverty and depravation
- Public and social health
- Social movements and protests
- Supply methods
- Sustainability
Please send your abstracts no later than October 1, 2021, to adel.daoud@liu.se (this opens in a new tab) and jonas.baath@ism.lu.se (this opens in a new tab).
Submission of (invited) full manuscripts should be to the journal’s Editorial Manager site: https://www.editorialmanager.com/sore/ (this opens in a new tab)
When preparing your manuscript, please consult the Submission Guidelines (this opens in a new tab) located on the journal homepage.
Please send your questions or inquiries about the special issue to the Guest Editors: adel.daoud@liu.se (this opens in a new tab) and jonas.baath@ism.lu.se (this opens in a new tab).
Dates
2021-10-01 Submission of abstracts
2021-11-01 Invitation for full papers (for selected abstracts)
2022-03-31 Submission of full papers
2022-09-15 Submission of revised papers
2023-02-28 Finalized
References
Bååth, J. (2018). Production in a State of Abundance: Valuation and Practice in the Swedish Meat Supply Chain. Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-341801
Bååth, J. (2020). “Towards a Unified Theory of Market Prices: Turning to Pricing in Practice”, https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qp5yr/
Bååth, J., and Daoud, A. (forthcoming). “Expanding Social Resource Theory to Cases of Sufficiency and Abundance” in Foa, UG. and Foa, EB., eds. Kazemi, A. and Törnblom, K. Societal Structures of the Mind. 2nd ed.
Daoud, A. (2007). “(Quasi)Scarcity and Global Hunger”. Journal of Critical Realism 6(2): 199–225. DOI: 10.1558/jocr.v6i2.199 (this opens in a new tab)
Daoud, A. (2011). Scarcity, Abundance and Sufficiency: Contributions to Social and Economic Theory. Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg. http://hdl.handle.net/2077/24686
Daoud, A. (2018). “Unifying studies of scarcity, abundance, and sufficiency”. Ecological Economics 147: 208–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.01.019 (this opens in a new tab)
Daoud, A., Herlitz, A., and Subramanian, S. V. (2020) “Combining distributive ethics and causal inference to make trade-offs between austerity and population health.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15550 (this opens in a new tab)
Daoud, A., Reinsberg, B,. Kentikelenis, A., Stubbs, T., and King, L. (2019). “The International Monetary Fund’s Interventions in Food and Agriculture: An Analysis of Loans and Conditions”. Food Policy 83: 204–218. doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.01.005 (this opens in a new tab)
Levenstein, H. (1993). Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America. Oxford University Press.
Prasad, M. (2012). The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty. Cambridge University Press.
Sen, A. (1983). Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Depravation. Oxford University Press.