In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People, David Boarder Giles explores
the ways in which capitalism simultaneously manufactures waste and
scarcity. Illustrating how communities of marginalized people and
discarded things gather and cultivate political possibilities,
Giles documents the work of Food Not Bombs (FNB), a global movement
of grassroots soup kitchens that recover wasted grocery surpluses
and redistribute them to those in need. He explores FNB's urban
contexts: the global cities in which late-capitalist economies and
unsustainable consumption precipitate excess, inequality, food
waste, and hunger. Beginning in urban dumpsters, Giles traces the
logic by which perfectly edible commodities are nonetheless thrown
out-an act that manufactures food scarcity-to the social order of
"world-class" cities, the pathways of discarded food as it
circulates through the FNB kitchen, and the anticapitalist
political movements the kitchen represents. Describing the mutual
entanglement of global capitalism and anticapitalist transgression,
Giles captures those emergent forms of generosity, solidarity, and
resistance that spring from the global city's marginalized
residents.
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