Hunger Inc.: Building Solidarity Beyond the Food Bank
Autor Kayleigh Garthwaite Cuvânt înainte de Kerry Hudsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 dec 2025
Due to multiple political and economic crises, the demand for charitable food aid has increased enormously since 2020. 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 traveled across Britain, North America, and Europe, working with food banks, co-ops, urban farms, and food justice organizations. She documents the limitations of these programs and how institutionalizing 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.
Hunger Inc. proposes radical key policies for government 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 wholly normalized.
Kayleigh Garthwaite traveled across Britain, North America, and Europe, working with food banks, co-ops, urban farms, and food justice organizations. She documents the limitations of these programs and how institutionalizing 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.
Hunger Inc. proposes radical key policies for government 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 wholly normalized.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780745350172
ISBN-10: 0745350178
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 1 figure
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
ISBN-10: 0745350178
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 1 figure
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Recenzii
'How do you close a food bank – a beacon of what is wrong? By turning it into a shop – preferably a co-op. Kaleigh Garthwaite’s ground-breaking work explains why food banks prolong hunger and what must be done'
Danny Dorling, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
'This is the book we need right now, as inequality rages and people across the 'wealthy West' turn in ever greater numbers to food banks and other types of food support. Crucially, it gives us something to hang on to: solutions. An absolute must read not just for policymakers, but for everyone'
Mary O'Hara, author of Austerity Bites 10 Years On: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK
Danny Dorling, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
'This is the book we need right now, as inequality rages and people across the 'wealthy West' turn in ever greater numbers to food banks and other types of food support. Crucially, it gives us something to hang on to: solutions. An absolute must read not just for policymakers, but for everyone'
Mary O'Hara, author of Austerity Bites 10 Years On: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK
Notă biografică
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.
Cuprins
Foreword - by Kerry Hudson
Introduction
Part I. The Problems of Charitable Food Aid
1. The Past and Present of Charitable Food Aid
2. Food Surplus and the Growth of the Hunger Industrial Complex
3. The Problems of Charitable Food Aid under a Permanent State of ‘Emergency’
4. Labour Exploitation and Burnout in the Charitable Food Aid System
Part II. Dignity, Rights and Solidarity
5. The Right to Food
6. Reducing Stigma, Promoting Dignity, Nurturing Solidarity
7. Mechanisms for Ending Charitable Food Aid
8. Advocating for Change and the Importance of Solidarity
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Introduction
Part I. The Problems of Charitable Food Aid
1. The Past and Present of Charitable Food Aid
2. Food Surplus and the Growth of the Hunger Industrial Complex
3. The Problems of Charitable Food Aid under a Permanent State of ‘Emergency’
4. Labour Exploitation and Burnout in the Charitable Food Aid System
Part II. Dignity, Rights and Solidarity
5. The Right to Food
6. Reducing Stigma, Promoting Dignity, Nurturing Solidarity
7. Mechanisms for Ending Charitable Food Aid
8. Advocating for Change and the Importance of Solidarity
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Descriere
An argument for the abolition of corporate food aid