Hunger Inc.

Building Solidarity Beyond the Food Bank

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Since 2020, we have seen a huge increase in the demand for charitable food aid, due to multiple political and economic crises. Initially seen as an emergency measure, corporate-backed food aid programs are now entrenched 'solutions' to hunger. But who really benefits from them?Kayleigh Garthwaite travelled across Britain, North America and Europe, working with food banks, co-ops, urban farms and food justice organisations. She documents the limitations of these programs, and how institutionalising charitable food aid absolves governments of their responsibility to ensure that people have a right to food. As hunger and inequality continue to rise within advanced capitalist countries, this issue is more urgent than ever.Kayleigh Garthwaite proposes radical key policies for governments and explores alternative community-led responses grounded in solidarity, not charity, to end the need for food aid before the indignity of food banks becomes completely normalised.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-20
Mått:130 x 10 x 210 mm
Vikt:230 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Pluto Press
Medarbetare:Hudson,Kerry
ISBN:9780745350172

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Kayleigh Garthwaite is Associate Professor in Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize-winning Hunger Pains: Life Inside Foodbank Britain. She co-founded the Global Solidarity Alliance for Food, Health, and Social Justice (GSA), an international collaboration between scholars, NGOs, and grassroots campaigners.

Recensioner i media

'How do you close a food bank – a beacon of what is wrong? By turning it into a shop – preferably a co-op. Kayleigh Garthwaite’s ground-breaking work explains why food banks prolong hunger and what must be done'

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword - by Kerry HudsonIntroductionPart I. The Problems of Charitable Food Aid1. The Past and Present of Charitable Food Aid2. Food Surplus and the Growth of the Hunger Industrial Complex3. The Problems of Charitable Food Aid under a Permanent State of ‘Emergency’4. Labour Exploitation and Burnout in the Charitable Food Aid SystemPart II. Dignity, Rights and Solidarity5. The Right to Food6. Reducing Stigma, Promoting Dignity, Nurturing Solidarity7. Mechanisms for Ending Charitable Food Aid8. Advocating for Change and the Importance of SolidarityConclusionNotesAcknowledgementsIndex