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Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State

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Availability:In StockContributor:Kelly AlexanderPublish date:2024-10-29Pages:236
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469678580ISBN-10:1469678586UPC:9781469678580Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)Book Topic:Cultural & Social, Public PolicySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC2WND67YR
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 caf?. 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469678580ISBN-10:1469678586UPC:9781469678580Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)Book Topic:Cultural & Social, Public PolicySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC2WND67YR
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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