A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities

In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People, David Boarder Giles explores the ways in which capitalism simultaneously...
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A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities by Giles, David Boarder

A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities

$376.38

A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities

$376.38
Author: David Boarder Giles
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People, David Boarder Giles explores the ways in which capitalism simultaneously manufactures waste and scarcity. Illustrating how communities of marginalized people and discarded things gather and cultivate political possibilities, Giles documents the work of Food Not Bombs (FNB), a global movement of grassroots soup kitchens that recover wasted grocery surpluses and redistribute them to those in need. He explores FNB's urban contexts: the global cities in which late-capitalist economies and unsustainable consumption precipitate excess, inequality, food waste, and hunger. Beginning in urban dumpsters, Giles traces the logic by which perfectly edible commodities are nonetheless thrown out--an act that manufactures food scarcity--to the social order of "world-class" cities, the pathways of discarded food as it circulates through the FNB kitchen, and the anticapitalist political movements the kitchen represents. Describing the mutual entanglement of global capitalism and anticapitalist transgression, Giles captures those emergent forms of generosity, solidarity, and resistance that spring from the global city's marginalized residents.

Author: David Boarder Giles
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 09/24/2021
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781478013495


Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2022

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

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