{"product_id":"a-mass-conspiracy-to-feed-people-9781478014416","title":"A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Mass Conspiracy to Feed People\u003c\/i\u003e, David Boarder Giles explores the ways in which capitalism simultaneously manufactures waste and scarcity. Illustrating how communities of marginalized people and discarded things gather and cultivate political possibilities, Giles documents the work of Food Not Bombs (FNB), a global movement of grassroots soup kitchens that recover wasted grocery surpluses and redistribute them to those in need. He explores FNB''s urban contexts: the global cities in which late-capitalist economies and unsustainable consumption precipitate excess, inequality, food waste, and hunger. Beginning in urban dumpsters, Giles traces the logic by which perfectly edible commodities are nonetheless thrown out—an act that manufactures food scarcity—to the social order of “world-class” cities, the pathways of discarded food as it circulates through the FNB kitchen, and the anticapitalist political movements the kitchen represents. Describing the mu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Chronicling the work of the urban justice organization Food Not Bombs, David Boarder Giles analyzes urgent and overlapping social, economic, and political concerns common in today's global cities. Giles engages with a range of scholarly disciplines and theoretical arguments eloquently and elegantly, while offering ethnographic details that are both vivid and convincing.” -- Robin Nagle, author of * Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City *\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eA Mass Conspiracy To Feed People\u003c\/i\u003e, David Boarder Giles documents the rhizomatic magic by which the anarchist direct action group Food Not Bombs converts urban food waste into meals for the hungry and hope for a better world. Along the way he intertwines his own lived experience and a sophisticated critique of the contemporary capitalist city to create a beautiful book that is itself a recipe for a slow-simmering revolution.” -- Jeff Ferrell, author of * Drift: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eA Mass Conspiracy to Feed People\u003c\/i\u003e] is appropriate for upper division undergraduate and graduate classes on social movements. . . . It is a must read for social activists looking to address equity issues in a neo-liberal, capitalist world. Kudos to Giles for providing such an excellent blueprint for ways in which the detritus of capitalism can be used to address the ills of the system.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Michael L. Hirsch * International Social Science Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Themes of abject waste, abject communities, and the subversive potential of counterpublics form the structure of [\u003ci\u003eA Mass Conspiracy to Feed People\u003c\/i\u003e] and aptly carry the reader from the quotidian bin into new political possibilities.” -- Benjamin Wyatt * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Mass Conspiracy\u003c\/i\u003e is an academic book with the aesthetics of an anarchist zine, replete with side-bar soup recipes, reproductions of FNB flyers, and vivid photographs of discarded food and abandoned people. This, combined with Giles’ lively prose, helps the reader through a dense theoretical argument. It also brings us back to what really matters: who and what is being thrown out of the towering heights of global cities, and what insights and possibilities we can recover from the wreckage.\" -- Alex V. Barnard * Mobilization *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\/Acknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: Any Given Sunday in Seattle  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Of Waste, Cities, and Conspiracies  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Abject Capital\u003cbr\u003e Scene i: It's Thanksgiving in Seattle  27\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Anatomy of a Dumpster: Abject Capital and the Looking Glass of Value  31\u003cbr\u003e Scene ii: Reckoning Value at the Market  55\u003cbr\u003e 2. Market-Publics and Scavenged Counterpublics  58\u003cbr\u003e Part II: World-Class Cities, World-Class Waste\u003cbr\u003e Scene iii: If You Build It, They Will Come  91\u003cbr\u003e 3. Place-making and Waste-making in the Global City  97\u003cbr\u003e Scene iv: Like a Picnic, Only Bigger, and with Strangers  117\u003cbr\u003e 4. Eating in Public: Shadow Economies and Forbidden Gifts  123\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Slow Insurrection\u003cbr\u003e Scene v: \"Rabble\" on the Global Street  157\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Recipe for Mass Conspiracy  166\u003cbr\u003e Scene vi: When I First Got to the Kitchen  198\u003cbr\u003e 6. Embodying Otherwise: Toward a New Politics of Surplus  202\u003cbr\u003e Encore: A New Zeitgeist  233\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Open Letters to Lost Homes (Political Implications)  235\u003cbr\u003e Notes  255\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  271\u003cbr\u003e Index  293","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408995885399,"sku":"9781478014416","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478014416.jpg?v=1730505017","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-mass-conspiracy-to-feed-people-9781478014416","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}