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Author Giles, David Boarder, 1980- author.

Title A mass conspiracy to feed people : food not bombs and the world-class waste of global cities / David Boarder Giles
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Analysis abject capitalism
neoliberal urban development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Food Not Bombs (Organization)
SUBJECT Food Not Bombs (Organization) fast
Subject Food waste.
Dumpster diving.
Food security.
Food supply -- Social aspects
Food consumption -- Social aspects
Waste (Economics) -- Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Dumpster diving
Food consumption -- Social aspects
Food security
Food supply -- Social aspects
Food waste
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020057027
ISBN 1478021713
9781478021711