Hungry in Japan: Food Insecurity and Ethical Citizenship
Hungry in Japan: Food Insecurity and Ethical Citizenship
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日本的饥饿：粮食不安全与道德公民
DOI：
10.1017/s0021911818000037
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发表时间：
2018
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Aya H. Kimura
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作者：
Aya H. Kimura
除了其他形式的不稳定性，食品不安全-公民无法获得营养食品-是当代日本日益关注的问题。本文探讨了社会反应，并记录了食品银行和儿童自助餐厅等形式的志愿服务的强劲增长，为有需要的儿童提供廉价或免费的膳食。自2000年代中期以来，这两种类型的计划都变得更加普遍，并填补了政府留下的空白。本文探讨了这些私人项目中的紧张关系，通过借鉴伦理公民的概念，这表明志愿服务是根深蒂固的新自由主义。这些方案是从道德问题的角度构建的，例如为公民的互助创造ibasho（空间），通过“不浪费“（不浪费）减少粮食损失。这种对社区权力的支持有可能掩盖这样一个事实，即粮食不安全在一定程度上是公共安全网失灵的结果。
In addition to other forms of precarity, food insecurity—citizens not having access to nutritious food—is an issue of growing concern in contemporary Japan. This article explores societal responses and documents a strong growth of volunteerism in the form of food banks and kodomo shokudō (children's cafeterias) that offer cheap or free meals to children in need. Both types of programs have become more common since the mid-2000s and are filling a void left by the government. This article explores the tensions in these private programs by drawing on the concept of ethical citizenship, which suggests that volunteerism is entrenched in neoliberalization. The programs are constructed in terms of moral matters, such as creating ibasho (space) for citizens’ mutual help and reducing food loss by “bringing back mottainai ” (wasting nothing). This championing of community power risks masking the fact that food insecurity is in part a result of the failure of public safety nets.