Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain
An Inequality of Power
1st Edition
Published on 2. March 2022
214 pages
978-1-4473-5857-2 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional food aid and food poverty debates.
It argues that the food aid industry is infused with neoliberal governmentality and shows how food charity upholds Christian ideals and white privilege, maintaining inequalities of class, race, religion and gender. However, it also reveals a sector that is immensely varied, embodying both individualism and mutual aid.
Drawing upon lived experiences, it documents how food sharing amid poverty fosters solidarity and gives rise to alternative modes of food redistribution among communities. By harnessing these alternative ways of being, food aid and communities can be part of movements for economic and racial justice.
It argues that the food aid industry is infused with neoliberal governmentality and shows how food charity upholds Christian ideals and white privilege, maintaining inequalities of class, race, religion and gender. However, it also reveals a sector that is immensely varied, embodying both individualism and mutual aid.
Drawing upon lived experiences, it documents how food sharing amid poverty fosters solidarity and gives rise to alternative modes of food redistribution among communities. By harnessing these alternative ways of being, food aid and communities can be part of movements for economic and racial justice.
Reviews / Votes
"... an important addition to current scholarship [which] adds significant weight to existing arguments against charitable food aid, doing so by evidencing the relationship between food aid and the wider institutions prevailing in the UK which create, maintain and exacerbate inequality." Critical Social Policy "Once his eyes had been opened George Orwell would never again subscribe to the Salvation Army. A century on, this study demonstrates how we are now living again with the sensibilities and outcomes of 1920s and 1930s inequality." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford "The use of the lens of race and religion in this valuable study of food aid and food insecurity makes for a thought-provoking and challenging contribution to the literature." Ruth Lister, House of LordsMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5 s/w Tabellen
5 Tables, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-5857-2 (9781447358572)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447358572
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Person
Maddy Power is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York.
Content
Foreword - Kate Pickett
1. Introduction
2. Revising perspectives on neoliberalism, hunger and food insecurity
3. Food aid and neoliberalism: an alliance built on shared interests?
4. Soup and salvation: realising religion through contemporary food charity
5. Whiteness, racism and colourblindness in UK food aid
6. Lived neoliberalism: food, poverty and power
7.Racial inequality or mutual aid? Food and poverty among Pakistani British and White British women
8. Seeds beneath the snow
1. Introduction
2. Revising perspectives on neoliberalism, hunger and food insecurity
3. Food aid and neoliberalism: an alliance built on shared interests?
4. Soup and salvation: realising religion through contemporary food charity
5. Whiteness, racism and colourblindness in UK food aid
6. Lived neoliberalism: food, poverty and power
7.Racial inequality or mutual aid? Food and poverty among Pakistani British and White British women
8. Seeds beneath the snow
