A mass conspiracy to feed people : food not bombs and the world-class waste of global cities
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A mass conspiracy to feed people : food not bombs and the world-class waste of global cities
Duke University Press, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-292) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
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
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