Care-full food justice

Drawing on literatures on food justice, and geographies of care and the concept of care-full justice, this aim of this paper is to develop the concept of care-full food justice as an analytical framework through which to view the work of community food provisioning initiatives in the meantime. The paper begins by developing the concept of care-full justice, outlining that it is based on three premises: the inter-dependence of care and justice; an un-derstanding of who is taking responsibility for care in the meantime; and an appreciation of the ways in which the five dispositions of an ethics of care might individually or collectively facilitate responses to injustice. Sec-ondly, the paper provides an overview of the research project informing the paper, which documents community food provisioning initiatives in Sydney. Thirdly, drawing on the example of Addison Road Community Centre Organisation Food Pantry, the paper applies a care-full food justice approach to generate insights into how the values of attentiveness, responsibility, competence, responsiveness and caring with flow through responses to injustice enacted by the organisation. The paper emphasises that a care-full food justice approach enables us to attend to the calls for caring justice and just care, to equally value these formative ethics that might guide our analysis and engagement with organisations responding to injustice in the meantime.