Food Banking, Ethical Sensemaking, and Social Innovation in an Era of Growing Hunger in the United States
本文研究美国食品银行领导者如何围绕饥饿的伦理与正义维度进行意义建构，提出一个伦理意义建构的初步模型，并探讨他们采用创新、可持续和公正的食品银行方法来应对饥饿根源。
This article considers the critical role that food bank leaders play in sensemaking around the ethical and justice dimensions of hunger and food-related illnesses in the United States. It presents the discourses of industrial agriculture and food justice and, using an illustrative case study, proposes a preliminary model of ethical sensemaking. This model serves as a starting point for understanding how some (but not all) food bank leaders in the United States have been triggered to engage in ethical sensemaking and adopted a variety of innovative, sustainable, and just approaches to food banking that try to address the root causes of growing levels of hunger in the United States. The article concludes with an invitation to consider this investigation through the lens of Dewey’s moral imagination and Gergen’s forms of inquiry that generate practices to solve social problems and that invite researchers to participate in world-making.