- Introduction: An Essay in Refusal
- ‘More than Food’ and Behaviour Change
- New Subjects of Charity
- Toward a Critical Ontology of Food Charity and the Psychologisation of Poverty
- Scope and Focus of the Book
The Dispositive of Food Charity
2.1. "What is a Dispositive?"
2.2. Fuelling the Machine: Flows and Materialisations of Knowledge
2.3. The Spectacle of Food Charity: Neighbourhood Food Collections (NFCs)
2.4. Collection Points: Consuming Charity
2.5. Feeding the Worthy Poor
2.6. Poverty Relief as Spectacle
2.7. Failures in Disposition and Possible Resistance
2.8. Conclusion
Problematisations of Food Poverty
- Problematisations in Foucault
- Constituting Problematic Subjects in the Food Bank
- Problematisation 1: Food Poverty as Sudden Crisis Driven by Structural Factors
- Problematisation 2: Food Poverty as Personal Chaos and Culture of Poverty
- Problematisation 3: Food Poverty as Result of a Failing Society
- Local Constructions of Food Poverty as a Social Problem
- Conclusion
Crisis and the Medicalisation of Poverty
- Crisis as Discourse: A Brief Genealogy
- The Constitution of ‘Clients in Crisis’
- A Nudge in the Food Bank
- Behavioural Activation and (not so) Soft Paternalism
- Conclusion
‘More Than Food’
- ‘More Than Food’
- "Eat Well – Spend Less"
- Job Clubs and Social Spaces in Food Banks
- Conclusion
The Psychopolitics of Food Charity
- From Vulnerability to Wellbeing: Happy Subjects of Charity?
- Disrupting the Spectacle and Killing Charity’s Joy
- Developing a Shockproof Subject?
- Refusing Resilience, Positivity and Development
- Conclusion
Concluding Reflections: From Refusal to Innovation
- Psychology, ‘Nudge’ Economics and Neoliberalism
- Liberalism and the Traps of Humanism
- Absent Voices and Poverty Research
- Essays in Refusal: The Value of Critique
- Critique is Not Enough: From "What’s to be done?" to "What more am I to do?"
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