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- Book Title
- A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Cl
- Publication Date
- 2021-09-24
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781478014416
- Subject Area
- Social Science
- Publication Name
- Mass Conspiracy to Feed People : Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
1478014415
ISBN-13
9781478014416
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15050382872
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Publication Name
Mass Conspiracy to Feed People : Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities
Language
English
Subject
Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2020-057026
Reviews
A Mass Conspiracy is an academic book with the aesthetics of an anarchist zine, replete with side-bar soup recipes, reproductions of FNB flyers, and vivid photographs of discarded food and abandoned people. This, combined with Giles' lively prose, helps the reader through a dense theoretical argument. It also brings us back to what really matters: who and what is being thrown out of the towering heights of global cities, and what insights and possibilities we can recover from the wreckage., Chronicling the work of the urban justice organization Food Not Bombs, David Boarder Giles analyzes urgent and overlapping social, economic, and political concerns common in today's global cities. Giles engages with a range of scholarly disciplines and theoretical arguments eloquently and elegantly, while offering ethnographic details that are both vivid and convincing., [ A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People ] is appropriate for upper division undergraduate and graduate classes on social movements. . . . It is a must read for social activists looking to address equity issues in a neo-liberal, capitalist world. Kudos to Giles for providing such an excellent blueprint for ways in which the detritus of capitalism can be used to address the ills of the system., In A Mass Conspiracy To Feed People , David Boarder Giles documents the rhizomatic magic by which the anarchist direct action group Food Not Bombs converts urban food waste into meals for the hungry and hope for a better world. Along the way he intertwines his own lived experience and a sophisticated critique of the contemporary capitalist city to create a beautiful book that is itself a recipe for a slow-simmering revolution., Themes of abject waste, abject communities, and the subversive potential of counterpublics form the structure of [ A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People ] and aptly carry the reader from the quotidian bin into new political possibilities.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.4
Table Of Content
Preface/Acknowledgments vii Prologue: Any Given Sunday in Seattle xi Introduction: Of Waste, Cities, and Conspiracies 1 Part I. Abject Capital Scene i: It's Thanksgiving in Seattle 27 1. The Anatomy of a Dumpster: Abject Capital and the Looking Glass of Value 31 Scene ii: Reckoning Value at the Market 55 2. Market-Publics and Scavenged Counterpublics 58 Part II: World-Class Cities, World-Class Waste Scene iii: If You Build It, They Will Come 91 3. Place-making and Waste-making in the Global City 97 Scene iv: Like a Picnic, Only Bigger, and with Strangers 117 4. Eating in Public: Shadow Economies and Forbidden Gifts 123 Part III: Slow Insurrection Scene v: "Rabble" on the Global Street 157 5. A Recipe for Mass Conspiracy 166 Scene vi: When I First Got to the Kitchen 198 6. Embodying Otherwise: Toward a New Politics of Surplus 202 Encore: A New Zeitgeist 233 Conclusion: Open Letters to Lost Homes (Political Implications) 235 Notes 255 Bibliography 271 Index 293
Synopsis
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., 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.
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GN407.G55 2021
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2021
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