Some belated professional news:

A few months ago I started working as a postdoc at Maastricht University on the exciting ERC project @erc-foodcharities.bsky.social led by @pipponcini.bsky.social

Really happy to be part of this international team, based at the Maastricht Sustainability Institute!

Marga brings her experience in economic sociology. Shiori hopes to bridge European and Japanese Urban Studies. Simona specializes in urban and sustainability studies.

Find out more about their backgrounds: foodcharities.eu/about/who-we...

#FoodCharities #PhD #UrbanEthnography

Thrilled to welcome 3 new PhD researchers to our Food Charities project! 🎉

Marga (Rotterdam), Shiori (Kyoto), and Simona (Palermo) will conduct comparative urban ethnography in each city, exploring survival strategies through charitable food provision.

📆Key submission dates:
Abstract: 1 December 2025
Full paper: 31 May 2026

🔗Call for Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

The special issue welcomes contributions from across disciplines and contexts and encourage you to share the call widely!

The special issue, co-edited by @pipponcini.bsky.social and Roberto Sensi, invites contributions that move beyond emergency food aid to critically interrogate different forms of food support and how the very nature of food insecurity in high-income countries should be conceptualized and understood.

🔎What really is food (in)security in high-income countries? How does it differ, if at all, from poverty, deprivation, or inequality in access to food?
🔎Food banks and surplus food redistribution have become emblematic responses, but how do these practices reshape welfare, rights, and sustainability?

We are very excited to share the launch of a special issue in Global Food Security!

👉 Understanding Food Insecurity in High-Income Countries: New Theoretical Approaches, Multidimensional Perspectives, and Innovative Practices and Policy Responses

Read more and find the link below🔽

We are now on Bluesky 🎉

Using a comparative and relational approach, the Food Charities project explores how charitable food provision operates in urban spaces in different welfare and civil society contexts: Italy, Japan, and the Netherlands.

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