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"This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations and contestations. While community food initiatives aim to tackle issues like food security, food waste or food poverty, it is a cause for concern for many when they are framed as the next big "solution" to the problems of the current industrialised food system. They have been critiqued for being too neoliberal, elitist, localist; for not challenging structural inequalities (e.g. racism, privilege, exclusion, colonialism, capitalism) and for reproducing these inequalities within their own contexts. This edited volume examines the everyday realities of community food initiatives, focusing on both their hopes and their troubles, their limitations and failures, but also their best intentions, missions, and models, alongside their capacity to create hope in difficult times. The stories presented in this book are grounded in contemporary theoretical debates on neoliberalism, diverse economies, food justice, community and inclusion, and social innovation, and help to sharpen these as conceptual tools for interrogating community food initiatives as sites of both hope and trouble. The novelty of this volume is its focus on the everyday doings of these initiatives in particular places and contexts, with different constraints and opportunities. This grounded, relational, and place-based approach allows us to move beyond more traditional framings in which community food initiatives are either applauded for their potential or criticized for their limitations. It enables researchers and practitioners to explore how community food initiatives can realize their potential for creating alternative food futures, and generates innovative pathways for theorising the mutual interplay of food production and consumption. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies, food security, public health and nutrition as well as human geographers, sociologists and anthropologists with an interest in food"--

Food banks --- Food security --- Food supply --- Moral and ethical aspects.

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Drawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest food banks, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last fifteen years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity.

Food banks --- Poverty --- Public welfare --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Destitution --- Food relief --- Food banking --- Banks, Food

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Food banks --- Food relief --- Poor --- Nutrition policy --- Nutrition --- Government policy --- Food Stamp Program (U.S.) --- Food stamps --- Political science --- Social science

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In the years since the UK Government embarked on its harsh austerity programme, food poverty has become a major issue, and food banks have been forced into a major role in the lives of countless citizens. This book is built on hundreds of hours of interviews with the people who rely on food banks today, as well as with the volunteers who keep them running on tight budgets and in difficult conditions.

Food banks. --- Economic policy. --- Economic history. --- Economics. --- Food Assistance. --- Food banks --- Great Britain. --- Great Britain --- Economic policy --- Economic conditions --- Food banking --- Banks, Food --- Food relief --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Political aspects --- Anglia --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- England and Wales --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grossbritannien --- Igirisu --- Iso-Britannia --- Marea Britanie --- Nagy-Britannia --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Storbritannien --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Wielka Brytania --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- Poverty

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How food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity. The United States has one of the highest rates of hunger and food insecurity in the industrialized world, with poor households, single parents, and communities of color disproportionately affected. Food pantries--run by charitable and faith-based organizations--rather than legal entitlements have become a cornerstone of the government's efforts to end hunger. In Feeding the Other , Rebecca de Souza argues that food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity. De Souza describes this "framing, blaming, and shaming" as "neoliberal stigma" that recasts the structural issue of hunger as a problem for the individual hungry person. De Souza shows how neoliberal stigma plays out in practice through a comparative case analysis of two food pantries in Duluth, Minnesota. Doing so, she documents the seldom-acknowledged voices, experiences, and realities of people living with hunger. She describes the failure of public institutions to protect citizens from poverty and hunger; the white privilege of pantry volunteers caught between neoliberal narratives and social justice concerns; the evangelical conviction that food assistance should be "a hand up, not a handout"; the culture of suspicion in food pantry spaces; and the constraints on food choice. It is only by rejecting the neoliberal narrative and giving voice to the hungry rather than the privileged, de Souza argues, that food pantries can become agents of food justice.

Food banks --- Poor --- Stigma (Social psychology) --- Social stratification. --- Paternalism. --- Racism. --- ENVIRONMENT/Food Studies --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Critical race theory --- Race relations --- Parentalism --- Social classes --- Social control --- Social systems --- Stratification, Social --- Equality --- Social structure --- Identity (Psychology) --- Shame --- Social psychology --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Poverty --- Food banking --- Banks, Food --- Food relief --- Economic conditions