@article {Beck:2020:1759-8273:383,
title = "The moral maze of food bank use",
journal = "Journal of Poverty and Social Justice",
parent_itemid = "infobike://tpp/jpsj",
publishercode ="tpp",
year = "2020",
volume = "28",
number = "3",
publication date ="2020-10-01T00:00:00",
pages = "383-399",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "1759-8273",
eissn = "1759-8281",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/jpsj/2020/00000028/00000003/art00005",
doi = "doi:10.1332/175982720X15905998909942",
keyword = "foodbank, welfare reform, bureaucracy, neoliberalism, decision making",
author = "Beck, David and Gwilym, Hefin",
abstract = "The foodbank symbolises a changing landscape of social insecurity and welfare conditionality. Attending to decision making within the foodbank system, this article argues that foodbanks, and their referral-system creates a bureaucratic moral maze identifying people as
deserving or undeserving of help. Maintaining a moral distance, organised religious foodbanks are reliant upon a complex outsourcing of moral decisions and walk a fine balance between supply (donations) and demand (use). Within this article, we argue that the foodbank
landscape is akin to navigating a moral maze, and that this creates, and justifies decisions of deservingness.",
}