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The Everyday Politics of Food Co-Ops : Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plender, Celia.
- Series:
- Anthropology of Europe Series
- Anthropology of Europe Series ; v.9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food cooperatives--Political aspects--Great Britain--Case studies.
- Food cooperatives.
- Community organization--Great Britain--Case studies.
- Community organization.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--21st century.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "National politics has a significant impact on organizing and accessing community welfare. This book engages with notions of everyday politics within two London-based food co-ops emerging from different political environments and ideologies. It provides a careful and engaging examination of the experiences of political and economic change in Austerity Britain, revealing how national politics came to punctuate everyday lives within the co-ops. It highlights the political resonances that practices of care, aid and community organizing came to have within the food co-ops at a time of rapid welfare withdrawal, as well as the tensions between more radical and neoliberal imaginaries that played out within them"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Origins
- Food Cooperative Imaginaries
- Structure and Structurelessness
- Changing Times, Changing Politics
- Changing Places, Changing Communities
- The Politics of Aid, Exchange and Price
- Conclusion. The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80539-982-9
- 1-80539-983-7
- OCLC:
- 1510771090
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