Organizing Food, Faith and Freedom: Imagining Alternatives

This book explores how a community in Aotearoa New Zealand organizes around surplus food to deal with food poverty, highlighting the complexity of alternative economies and relations.

Format: Hardback
Length: 154 pages
Publication date: 30 May 2024
Publisher: Bristol University Press

Consumption, unchecked growth, waste, and inequalities persist as global challenges, impacting societies worldwide. However, innovative collectives are taking matters into their own hands, addressing these issues from the grassroots level. Drawing from an autoethnographic study of a free food store in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book offers a firsthand account of how a community comes together to combat food poverty, while also providing a deeper understanding of the complexities that shape the free food store's existence. By examining the emergence of alternative economies and relationships within these community-driven solutions, the author demonstrates the potential for thinking, acting, and organizing differently within and beyond the confines of capitalist dynamics.

Consumption, unchecked growth, waste, and inequalities persist as global challenges, impacting societies worldwide. However, innovative collectives are taking matters into their own hands, addressing these issues from the grassroots level. Drawing from an autoethnographic study of a free food store in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book offers a firsthand account of how a community comes together to combat food poverty, while also providing a deeper understanding of the complexities that shape the free food store's existence. By examining the emergence of alternative economies and relationships within these community-driven solutions, the author demonstrates the potential for thinking, acting, and organizing differently within and beyond the confines of capitalist dynamics.

Weight: 390g
Dimension: 240 x 162 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529216233