Truffles and Trash (eBook)

Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State

Kelly Alexander (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
236 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7860-3 (ISBN)

Infos

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium, Kelly Alexander reveals it is also an opportunity for new forms of sociality. Her study plays out across a diverse set of locationsincluding a food bank with ties to the EU, a social restaurant serving low-cost meals made from supermarket surplus by an emergent immigrant labor force, and a social inclusion program in an urban market with a "e;zero food waste"e; pop-up cafe. Alexander argues that these efforts, in concert with innovative policy, effectively recirculate wasted food to new publics and produce what she terms a "e;spectrum of edibility."e;According to Alexander, these models face challengesincluding reproducing the very power dynamics across race, class, and citizenship status they seek to circumvent. They also mirror the challenges of the everyday operations of the European social welfare state, which is increasingly reliant on NGOs to meet provisioning promises. Yet she finds that they also move the needle forward to reduce food waste across one city, providing an example for major urban centers around the world.

Autor

Kelly Alexander is assistant professor and George B. Tindall Fellow of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.10.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 17 halftones, 2 maps, 1 table
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Contemporary Food Studies • Critical Food Studies • European Union food policies • European Union policies on food waste • food equity • food insecurity and the working poor • food insecurity in a social welfare state • Food Justice • food provisioning in a social welfare state • food recirculation • food waste policy • food waste policy in Brussels • food waste recirculation in Brussels • food waste recuperation • innovative food policy • precarious migrant life in the EU • reducing food waste in Brussels • struggles of the working poor for food resources • the anthropology of food • the anthropology of waste • the benefits of mutual aid • the limits of food banks • the limits of the social welfare state
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7860-8 / 1469678608
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7860-3 / 9781469678603