Kayleigh Garthwaite

Hunger Inc. (eBook, ePUB)

Building Solidarity Beyond the Food Bank

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745350189
• Artikelnr.: 73547415

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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