The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops: Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain

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Celia Plender, Plender

The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops

Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain

Celia Plender, Plender

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English

Berghahn Books
01 May 2025

Food & society; Sociology: customs & traditions; Social & cultural anthropology; Welfare & benefit systems

Series: Anthropology of Europe

National politics has a significant impact on organizing and accessing community welfare. This book engages with notions of everyday politics within two London-based food co-ops emerging from different political environments and ideologies. It provides a careful and engaging examination of the experiences of political and economic change in Austerity Britain, revealing how national politics came to punctuate everyday lives within the co-ops. It highlights the political resonances that practices of care, aid and community organizing came to have within the food co-ops at a time of rapid welfare withdrawal, as well as the tensions between more radical and neoliberal imaginaries that played out within them.

By: Celia Plender Plender
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781805399810
ISBN 10: 1805399810
Series: Anthropology of Europe
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 01 May 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Origins Chapter 2. Food Cooperative Imaginaries Chapter 3. Structure and Structure Lessness Chapter 4. Changing Times, Changing Politics Chapter 5. Changing Places, Changing Communities Chapter 6. The Politics of Aid, Exchange and Price Conclusion: The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops Index

Celia Plender is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter. She is also the co-convenor of the Association of Social Anthropologists’ Anthropology of Britain Network. One of her recent research projects was The Politics of Food and Housing in Changing Times, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Reviews for The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops: Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain

“This is a terrific book …written in a great, clear style, its narrative keeps the reader interested and it never really tires.” • Theodoros Rakopoulos, University of Oslo “I enjoyed reading this book immensely. It is particularly strong in ethnographic content; I find it a compelling read.” • Peter Luetchford, University of Sussex