Organizing Food, Faith and Freedom
Imagining Alternatives
$61.94
- Paperback
154 pages
- Release Date
20 May 2025
Summary
Consumerism, unsustainable growth, waste, and inequalities continue to ail societies across the globe, but creative collectives have been tackling these issues at a grassroots level.
Based on an autoethnographic study about a free food store in Aotearoa New Zealand, this book presents a first-hand account of how a community is organized around surplus food to deal with food poverty, while also helping the reader to see through the complexity that brings the free food store to life.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529216240 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529216249 |
| Author: | Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar, Ozan Alakavuklar |
| Publisher: | Bristol University Press |
| Imprint: | Bristol University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 154 |
| Release Date: | 20 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
| Series: | Organizations and Activism |
Critics Review
“I recommend this book to organization scholars interested in exploring social transformation strategies and the politicization of systemic issues such as food poverty, particularly through examining the complex interplay between alternative organizations and capitalist structures.” Organization
“Is it possible to escape value as the dominant social form, shaping all social relations under capitalism? What would social relations then look like? Alakavuklar takes us into the free food store, where food is decommodified and its circulation organized through faith and community. He offers us a much-needed account of the power of alternatives: highly political, self-reflexive and hopeful.” Patrizia Zanoni, Hasselt University
“This remarkable book represents a generational shift in organizational scholarship. Alakavuklar examines newer ways of aligning research, teaching, activism and personal subjectivity in the pursuit of a more equitable world.” Raza Mir, William Paterson University
Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar
Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar is Associate Professor of Organization Studies in Utrecht University School of Governance.
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