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Who is "deserving" of aid? Subject-formation in Istanbul's food banks
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-05-27)
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 ...
Clean foods, motherhood and alternative food networks in contemporary Istanbul
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-02-01)
Since the early 2000s, the numbers of alternative food networks (AFNs) in Istanbul have increased significantly. Members are usually white collar, university educated, upper middle class Istanbulites who got into the AFNs ...
Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)
Introduced in the 2000s as a component of social welfare reforms, the means test determines the eligibility of aid applicants based on previously set income categories. Replacing local committees that decided eligibility, ...
What is the ‘alternative’? Insights from Istanbul’s food networks
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)
Outside of the Global North, where agri-food systems have not yet consolidated into a ‘funnel shape,’ what makes an urban provisioning actor ‘alternative’ is not always clear. In this paper, I use members’ own definitions, ...
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