Who is "deserving" of aid? Subject-formation in Istanbul's food banks.
This paper focuses on how the food banks, in working to allocate resources appropriately, constantly generate appropriate subjects, the "deserving poor", and through processes of identification and verification, unmask the "undeserving poor". The paper argues that process of identification, which in...
| Publicado en: | Food, Culture & Society Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 464 - 481 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jun2021
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