Truffles and trash : recirculating food in a social welfare state / Kelly Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, Kelly, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food waste--Social aspects--Belgium--Brussels.

Food waste.

Food supply--Social aspects--Belgium--Brussels.

Food supply.

Food waste--Belgium--Brussels--Prevention.

Waste minimization--Belgium--Brussels.

Waste minimization.

Food security--Belgium--Brussels.

Food security.

Food industry and trade--Belgium--Brussels.

Food industry and trade.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]

Summary:

"On a fragile planet with spreading food insecurity, food waste is a political and ethical problem. In Truffles and Trash, Kelly Alexander reveals it is also an opportunity for new forms of sociality. These dynamics play out across a diverse set of locations-from a food bank with ties to the EU and a social restaurant serving low-cost meals made from supermarket surplus by an emergent immigrant labor force to a social inclusion program in an urban market with a 'zero food waste' pop-up café. Alexander's close analysis illustrates the collaborative, sometimes scrappy institutional and community efforts to recuperate and redistribute food waste in Brussels, Belgium. She argues that these efforts in concert with innovative policy effectively recirculate wasted food to new publics and produce what she terms a 'spectrum of edibility.' According to Alexander, the models face challenges-including reproducing the very power dynamics across race, class, and citizenship status they seek to circumvent. They also mirror the challenges of the everyday operations of the European social welfare state, which is increasingly reliant on NGOs to meet provisioning promises. Yet she finds that they also move the needle forward in reducing food waste across one city, providing a model for major urban centers around the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

La truffe et la poubelle, or the Truffle and the trash

A world-class problem, everyone says so

Why Belgium?

Church, state, food, waste

When food waste goes to work

The affective abbattoir

A spectrum of edibility.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469678580

1469678586

9781469678597

1469678594

OCLC:

1430191666