Hunger, whiteness and religion in neoliberal Britain : an inequality of power / Maddy Power ; with a foreword by Kate Pickett.

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2022.

viii, 205 pages ; 25 cm

Maddy Power is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York.

1 Introduction -- Some essential terminology -- Food insecurity -- Food aid -- What is hunger? Food insecurity, food poverty and how we got here -- The setting -- A brief history of Bradford: 1850 to the present day -- A brief history of York: AD 71 to the present day -- The study -- Positionality in the research process -- Chapter summary -- Notes

2 Revising perspectives on neoliberalism, hunger and food insecurity -- Introduction: what is the need for theory? -- Political economy of food charity -- Liberalism and neoliberalism -- Political economic doctrine -- Governmentality -- Subjectivities -- Neoliberalism and critical approaches to food charity -- Religious neoliberalism -- Racial neoliberalism -- The post-racial state -- Whiteness -- Rights-based approaches to food insecurity -- Food aid and mutual aid -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Food aid and neoliberalism: an alliance built on shared interests?

Introduction: the rise of food charity? -- "Whose responsibility is it to feed the poor?" -- "Universal Credit has wrecked us" -- COVID-19 and the institutionalisation of food charity in the UK -- The manifestation of neoliberal ethics in food charity -- Food charity, neoliberalism and exclusion -- 'There are certain people who, kind of by default, are choosing their situation' : neoliberal narratives in food aid -- Neoliberal definitions of need -- Approved food choices -- Virtue and ambivalence -- Diversity and complexity in contemporary food charity -- Historical precedents and parallels

Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Soup and salvation : realising religion through contemporary food charity -- Introduction: faith and food charity in the 21st century -- Theological perspectives on food and charity -- Food and charity in Sikhism -- Charity and food in Islam -- Justice and charity in Judaism -- Food and charity in the Judeo-Christian tradition -- Faith and food charity in Bradford and York -- "Bringing heaven down to earth" : motivations for faith-based food charity -- "They have tried sex, drugs and alcohol, but they haven't tried God": saving the hungry through food charity

"Before the meal, we say a word from the Bible" : manifestations of faith in food aid -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Whiteness, racism and colourblindness in UK food aid -- Introduction: from religious to racial exclusion -- Racism and Whiteness in US food aid : colourblindness and universalism -- Racism and Whiteness in US emergency food provision -- Racial inequality in UK poverty and food insecurity -- Exploring the under-representation of minority ethnic households in emergency food aid -- Manifestations of Whiteness in the emergency food system -- Colourblindness -- Universalism -- 6 Lived neoliberalism : food, poverty and power -- 7 Racial inequality or mutual aid? Food and poverty among Pakistani British and White British women -- 8 Seeds beneath the snow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.