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A mass conspiracy to feed people : food not bombs and the world-class waste of global cities /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giles, David Boarder, 1980- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Food Not Bombs (Organization)
Food waste.
Dumpster diving.
Food security.
Food supply > Social aspects.
Food consumption > Social aspects.
Waste (Economics) > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. Any given Sunday in Seattle
  • Introduction. Of waste, cities, and conspiracies
  • The anatomy of a dumpster : abject capital and the looking glass of value
  • Market-publics and scavenged counterpublics
  • Place-making and waste-making in the global city
  • Eating in public : shadow economies and forbidden gifts
  • Recipe for a mass conspiracy
  • Embodying otherwise : toward a new politics of surplus
  • Encore. A new zeitgeist
  • Conclusion. Open letters to lost homes (political implications).