گرسنگی، سفیدی و دین در بریتانیای نئولیبرال: نابرابری قدرت [کتاب انگلیسی] | کتابخانه مجازی الفبا

Table of contents :
Front Cover
Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain: An Inequality of Power
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1 Introduction
Some essential terminology
Food insecurity
Food aid
What is hunger? Food insecurity, food poverty and how we got here
The setting
A brief history of Bradford: 1850 to the present day
A brief history of York: AD 71 to the present day
The study
Positionality in the research process
Chapter summary
Notes
2 Revising perspectives on neoliberalism, hunger and food insecurity
Introduction: what is the need for theory?
Political economy of food charity
Liberalism and neoliberalism
Political economic doctrine
Governmentality
Subjectivities
Neoliberalism and critical approaches to food charity
Religious neoliberalism
Racial neoliberalism
The post-racial state
Whiteness
Rights-based approaches to food insecurity
Food aid and mutual aid
Conclusion
Notes
3 Food aid and neoliberalism: an alliance built on shared interests?
Introduction: the rise of food charity?
“Whose responsibility is it to feed the poor?”
“Universal Credit has wrecked us”
COVID-19 and the institutionalisation of food charity in the UK
The manifestation of neoliberal ethics in food charity
Food charity, neoliberalism and exclusion
‘There are certain people who, kind of by default, are choosing their situation’: neoliberal narratives in food aid
Neoliberal definitions of need
Approved food choices
Virtue and ambivalence
Diversity and complexity in contemporary food charity
Historical precedents and parallels
Conclusion
Notes
4 Soup and salvation: realising religion through contemporary food charity
Introduction: faith and food charity in the 21st century
Theological perspectives on food and charity
Food and charity in Sikhism
Charity and food in Islam
Justice and charity in Judaism
Food and charity in the Judeo-Christian tradition
Faith and food charity in Bradford and York
“Bringing heaven down to earth”: motivations for faith-based food charity
“They have tried sex, drugs and alcohol, but they haven’t tried God”: saving the hungry through food charity
“Before the meal, we say a word from the Bible”: manifestations of faith in food aid
Conclusion
Notes
5 Whiteness, racism and colourblindness in UK food aid
Introduction: from religious to racial exclusion
Racism and Whiteness in US food aid: colourblindness and universalism
Racism and Whiteness in US emergency food provision
Racial inequality in UK poverty and food insecurity
Exploring the under-representation of minority ethnic households in emergency food aid
Manifestations of Whiteness in the emergency food system
Colourblindness
Universalism
Duality of Whiteness in emergency food aid
Conclusion
Notes
6 Lived neoliberalism: food, poverty and power
Introduction: individualising and responsibilising food insecurity
Low income, social security and food insecurity in Bradford and York
Lived experiences of low income, social security and food
‘Making do’ on a low income
Social security and (in)adequate nutrition
Language on food and poverty
What can Foucault tell us about food, poverty and power?
Disciplinary state
Chronicity of state surveillance
The all-pervasive dynamics of capitalism
Pastoral power in food banks
Sousveillance, self-regulation and the Other
A racialised Other?
Conclusion
Notes
7 Racial inequality or mutual aid? Food and poverty among Pakistani British and White British women
Introduction: Sabira’s story
Exploring ethnic differences in food insecurity
What is ‘race’? Social and historical constructs of race and ethnicity
Lived experiences of food, poverty and food aid
Apparent variations among Pakistani British and White British women
Why does there appear to be lower food insecurity among Pakistani British than among White British women?
Lower poverty
Strategies employed to ‘make ends meet’ within the household
Familial and social support
Religious frameworks
Racial or gendered stigma?
Divergent ethical frameworks? An ethic of independence, Islamic hospitality, or mutual aid
Alternative ethics of food charity: social solidarity and mutual aid
Conclusion
Notes
8 Seeds beneath the snow
The murky alliance between neoliberalism and food charity
Food aid can be racist
The lived experience of food is shaped by class, gendered and racial stigma
Food distribution can be a mode of resistance
Another way is possible
Neighbors Together: addressing hunger through housing reform
WhyHunger: “This is about root causes and systemic change, not changing behaviour”
Diggers’ Mirth Collective: anarchist farming and food markets in Vermont
Seizing uncertainty
Notes
Appendix: methodology
Bradford
Survey
Sample
Born in Bradford study
The BiB1000 study
Creating a food insecurity dataset
Variables used in the analysis
Statistical analysis
Interviews and focus groups
Food aid providers: 2014–15
Data analysis
Sample
Focus groups with low-income families 2016–17
Setting: Little Horton, Bowling and Barkerend, and Bradford Moor
Study design
Sample and ethical considerations
Data analysis
York
Research approach and aims
Study design and setting
Survey
Sample
Data collection
Focus groups
Focus group sample and ethical considerations
Data analysis
Reflections on the methodological approach
References
Index
Back Cover