Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain

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

• Foreword - Kate Pickett1. Introduction2. Revising perspectives on neoliberalism, hunger and food insecurity3. Food aid and neoliberalism: an alliance built on shared interests?4. Soup and salvation: realising religion through contemporary food charity5. Whiteness, racism and colourblindness in UK food aid6. Lived neoliberalism: food, poverty and power7.Racial inequality or mutual aid? Food and poverty among Pakistani British and White British women8. Seeds beneath the snow

"... an important addition to current scholarship [which] adds significant weight to existing arguments against charitable food aid, doing so by evidencing the relationship between food aid and the wider institutions prevailing in the UK which create, maintain and exacerbate inequality." Critical Social Policy