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1 online resource (312 pages). |
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Food, health, and the environment |
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Food, health, and the environment.
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| Summary |
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. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Neoliberal Stigma, Food Pantries, and an Unjust Food System; What Is This Book About?; Neoliberal Stigma; Food, Discourse, and the Political Economy of Stigma; The Entrepreneurialism of Hunger Solutions; A Deer Caught in the Headlights; The Study; Reflexivity in the Research Process; Of Sacred Cows and Trigger Warnings; A Note about Interpretation; The Place; Defining Hunger and Food Insecurity; An Unjust Food System; Legal Entitlements and Entitlement Failure; Industrial Surplus Food; Poverty Governance and SNAP Fraud |
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Dominant Hunger NarrativesHunger in an International Context; The Problem with Charity; Rights-Based Perspectives; Chapter Overview; The Hope: Food Pantries as Allies in Shifting the Narrative; 2 Key Conceptual Themes; "People Who Do Not Want to Work and Will Not Work"; Stigma and the Political Economy of Stigma; Ideological Formations, Discursive Practices, and Discursive Erasures; Neoliberalism; The Stigma of Poverty and Welfare; Intersectionality: Race, Gender, and Whiteness; Religion and Faith-bsed Organizing; Conclusion; 3 Voices of Hunger: Making the Invisible Visible |
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Goal of the ChapterThe Livelihood Toggle: "You Can't Really Survive on Minimum Wage"; Caring for Children and Grandchildren; Hunger Is Not Just about Nutrition; Jumping through Hoops; Trauma; Violet: "I Don't Know What Kind of Disorder I've Got"; The "Buffering Effect" of Social Support; Volunteerism, Not Activism; Conclusion; Policy and Practical Implications; 4 The "Good White Women" at the Chum Food Shelf; Goal of the Chapter; Contradictory Discourses at Chum; Institutional Pressures; "Good (White) Women, Basically"; Reaching Out and Breaking the Rules; White Fragility |
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The Hardworking, the Regulars, and Discourses of SuspicionA Discourse of Hopelessness; Conclusion; Implications for Practice and Policy; 5 Spiritual Entrepreneurs at Ruby's Pantry; Ruby's Pantry-Duluth; Goal of the Chapter; Hard Work at the Thursday Distribution; RP: A Ministry for the Body and Soul; Fracturing of Conservative Christian Ideology at RP-Duluth; Fun and Festive!; "A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out"; Food Surplus and Cost Explained through Spirituality; Poverty Governance at RP; Conclusion; Implications for Policy and Practice; 6 A Culture of Suspicion: Making the Invisible Visible |
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Goal of the ChapterScarcity Model at the Food Pantry; Reluctant to Complain; Cadillacs and Lincolns: Making Favorable Comparisons; Constructing "Us and Them" at RP; Denouncing "Them"; Suspicious Skin; "White Folks Used to Whip Black People, and ... Now They're Living Together"; Conclusion; Implications for Practice and Policy; 7 Health Citizens: Choosing Good Food amid Scarcity; Goal of the Chapter; Quantity and Quality of Food at Chum and RP; Meanings of Good Food; People of Color and the Long Arc of Food Injustice; In Context: Good Food Is Safe Food; In Context: Good Food Is "Fancy Food." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
MIT Press DTL OA MIT Titles |
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Stigma (Social psychology) (OCoLC)fst01133365
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Stigma (Social psychology)
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Social stratification. (OCoLC)fst01123370
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| Local Subject |
Poor people -- Minnesota -- Case studies.
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Case studies.
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Food banks -- Minnesota -- Case studies.
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Poor -- Minnesota -- Case studies.
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Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
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Minnesota. (OCoLC)fst01204560
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Food banks. (OCoLC)fst00930709
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Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
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Paternalism.
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Paternalism. (OCoLC)fst01054903
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Racism.
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Poor. (OCoLC)fst01071040
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Social stratification.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: De Souza, Rebecca. Feeding the other 9780262039819 (DLC) 2018036775 (OCoLC)1049576368 |
| ISBN |
9780262352789 (electronic book) |
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0262352788 (electronic book) |
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9780262039819 |
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0262039818 |
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9780262536769 |
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0262536765 |
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