Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State

On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. Examining...
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Author: Kelly Alexander
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Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State by Alexander, Kelly

Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State

CHF 213.24

Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State

CHF 213.24
Author: Kelly Alexander
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 locations--including 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 "zero food waste" 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 "spectrum of edibility."

According to Alexander, these models face challenges--including 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.

Author: Kelly Alexander
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781469678580

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