The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7068-0
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Addressing a neglected area in academic research, media coverage and public understanding, this book takes a critical political economy approach to understanding food insecurity in Canada and the UK.

It examines how current economic and political systems create food insecurity and why food charity does little to address the problem, diverting the attention of policy makers, the media and the public from the sources of food insecurity.

This book provides a vision of a future whereby public control over the distribution of resources –including food – will eliminate food insecurity and other conditions that threaten health.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mendly-Zambo, Zsofia

Raphael, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introducing the politics of food insecurity - Dennis Raphael

2. Food insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom - Zsofia Mendly-Zambo

3. Food banks, food diversion, and other responses - Dennis Raphael

4. Charity and capitalism - Nicola Livingstone and Lucy Natarajan

5. Implications and the way forward - Toba Bryant

6. Conclusion - Zsofia Mendly-Zambo and Dennis Raphael

Über Autor(innen)

Raphael, Dennis
Dennis Raphael, PhD, is a Professor at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto. He works in the area of the political economy of health.

Mendly-Zambo, Zsofia
Zsofia Mendly-Zambo is a PhD candidate in Health Policy and Equity at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University, Toronto. Her research areas include food insecurity and farmer mental health.

Zsofia Mendly-Zambo is a PhD candidate in Health Policy and Equity at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University, Toronto. Her research areas include food insecurity and farmer mental health.

Dennis Raphael, PhD, is a Professor at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto. He works in the area of the political economy of health.