• DOI:10.1177/1466138110392453
Corpus ID: 143456296

‘Waving the banana’ at capitalism: Political theater and social movement strategy among New York’s ‘freegan’ dumpster divers

@article{Barnard2011WavingTB,
  title={‘Waving the banana’ at capitalism: Political theater and social movement strategy among New York’s ‘freegan’ dumpster divers},
  author={A. Barnard},
  journal={Ethnography},
  year={2011},
  volume={12},
  pages={419 - 444}
}

• A. Barnard
• Published 2011
• Sociology
• Ethnography

This article presents an ethnographic study of ‘freegans’, individuals who use behaviors like dumpster diving for discarded food and voluntary unemployment to protest against environmental degradation and capitalism. While freegans often present their ideology as a totalizing lifestyle which impacts all aspects of their lives, in practice, freegans emphasize what would seem to be the most repellant aspect of their movement: eating wasted food. New Social Movement (NSM) theory would suggest that… Expand