David Boarder Giles

A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People

Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities

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Produktbeschreibung

David Boarder Giles traces the work of Food Not Bombsâ a global movement of grassroots soup kitchens that recover wasted grocery surpluses and redistribute them to those in needâ to examine the relationship between waste and scarcity in global cities under late capitalism and the fight for food justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014416
• ISBN-10: 1478014415
• Artikelnr.: 60942884

Autorenporträt

David Boarder Giles is Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface/Acknowledgments  vii
Prologue: Any Given Sunday in Seattle  xi
Introduction: Of Waste, Cities, and Conspiracies  1
Part I. Abject Capital
Scene i: It's Thanksgiving in Seattle  27
1. The Anatomy of a Dumpster: Abject Capital and the Looking Glass of
Value  31
Scene ii: Reckoning Value at the Market  55
2. Market-Publics and Scavenged Counterpublics  58
Part II: World-Class Cities, World-Class Waste
Scene iii: If You Build It, They Will Come  91
3. Place-making and Waste-making in the Global City  97
Scene iv: Like a Picnic, Only Bigger, and with Strangers  117
4. Eating in Public: Shadow Economies and Forbidden Gifts  123
Part III: Slow Insurrection
Scene v: "Rabble" on the Global Street  157
5. A Recipe for Mass Conspiracy  166
Scene vi: When I First Got to the Kitchen  198
6. Embodying Otherwise: Toward a New Politics of Surplus  202
Encore: A New Zeitgeist  233
Conclusion: Open Letters to Lost Homes (Political Implications)  235
Notes  255
Bibliography  271
Index  293