Food banks

Ewa Kopczyńska

Chapter 6 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 119-123 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The chapter presents the dynamics of food aid practices as realized by a food bank network. Applying an ethnographic, zoom-in perspective helps to reveal the processual, collective, and dynamic nature of food. The conceptual frameworks of actor–network theory and social practice theory help to show the impact of both human and non-human actors on the transformations of food products within the network. The empirical results of the Krakow Food Bank research project reveal the significance of social-material arrangements as not only a contextual element of food-related practices but also an active one.

Keywords: Food bank; Food aid; Food system; Consumption; Actor; Network theory; Social practice theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035312566
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