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Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks

dc.contributor.authorGhosh, Candan Türkkan
dc.contributor.departmentGastronomy and Culinary Arts
dc.contributor.ozuauthorGHOSH, Candan Türkkan
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-15T06:30:15Z
dc.date.available2023-09-15T06:30:15Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractIntroduced 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, this centralized and digitalized screening process rests on information infrastructures that are mostly invisible. This paper argues that the ways in which applicants contest the outcome of the means test, subvert the eligibility requirements, and go around the screening processes, make visible these otherwise-mostly invisible information infrastructures. Through a discussion of the contestations, subversions, and go-arounds applicants use (not always successfully) to receive emergency food relief from municipal food banks in Istanbul, the paper shows that these information infrastructures not only appear as if they are value-neutral and apolitical, but in so doing, they also serve as useful tools for obscuring who the actual decision makers are.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17530350.2023.2176339en_US
dc.identifier.endpage167en_US
dc.identifier.issn1753-0350en_US
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85149366862
dc.identifier.startpage151en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10679/8832
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2023.2176339
dc.identifier.volume16en_US
dc.identifier.wos000942932000001
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.peerreviewedyesen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Cultural Economy
dc.relation.publicationcategoryInternational Refereed Journal
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject.keywordsDatabasesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsFood bank accessen_US
dc.subject.keywordsFood banksen_US
dc.subject.keywordsIstanbulen_US
dc.subject.keywordsMeans testen_US
dc.subject.keywordsSocial assistanceen_US
dc.titleScreening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banksen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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