Prologue. Any given Sunday in Seattle -- Introduction. Of waste, cities, and conspiracies -- The anatomy of a dumpster : abject capital and the looking glass of value -- Market-publics and scavenged counterpublics -- Place-making and waste-making in the global city -- Eating in public : shadow economies and forbidden gifts -- Recipe for a mass conspiracy -- Embodying otherwise : toward a new politics of surplus -- Encore. A new zeitgeist -- Conclusion. Open letters to lost homes (political implications)
Summary
"David Boarder Giles traces the work of Food Not Bombs--a global movement of grassroots soup kitchens that recover wasted grocery surpluses and redistribute them to those in need--to examine the relationship between waste and scarcity in global cities under late capitalism and the fight for food justice."-- Provided by publisher