STRUGGLING FOR FOOD IN A TIME OF CRISIS: A comment on Caplan (see pp 8-10 in this issue)

Anthropol Today. 2020 Jun;36(3):26-27. doi: 10.1111/1467-8322.12579. Epub 2020 Jun 4.

Abstract

This commentary sets Caplan's arguments about food banks and food poverty in the broader context of changes to the welfare state, the 'charitization' of state welfare and the need to address food poverty within a framework of dignity rather than charity.