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The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops: Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain

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Anthropology of Europe

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The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops

Care, Aid and Community in Austerity Britain

Celia Plender

Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from the Economic and Social Research Council.

260 pages, 14 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-981-0 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (May 2025)


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“This is a terrific book …written in a great, clear style, its narrative keeps the reader interested and it never really tires.” • Theodoros Rakopoulos, University of Oslo

“I enjoyed reading this book immensely. It is particularly strong in ethnographic content; I find it a compelling read.” • Peter Luetchford, University of Sussex

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National politics has a significant impact on organizing and accessing community welfare. This book engages with notions of everyday politics within two London-based food co-ops emerging from different political environments and ideologies. It provides a careful and engaging examination of the experiences of political and economic change in Austerity Britain, revealing how national politics came to punctuate everyday lives within the co-ops. It highlights the political resonances that practices of care, aid and community organizing came to have within the food co-ops at a time of rapid welfare withdrawal, as well as the tensions between more radical and neoliberal imaginaries that played out within them.

Celia Plender is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter. She is also the co-convenor of the Association of Social Anthropologists’ Anthropology of Britain Network. One of her recent research projects was An Oral History of Neal’s Yard which was contributed to the University of Sheffield’s European Research Council-funded project Food Futures.

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologySociology
Area: Northern Europe

The Everyday Politics of Food Co-ops by Celia Plender is available as open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the Economic and Social Research Council.

OA ISBN: 978-1-80539-983-4



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