• DOI:10.1177/0042098009360223
Corpus ID: 154317986

Cooking up Non-violent Civil-disobedient Direct Action for the Hungry: ‘Food Not Bombs’ and the Resurgence of Radical Democracy in the US

@article{Heynen2010CookingUN,
  title={Cooking up Non-violent Civil-disobedient Direct Action for the Hungry: ‘Food Not Bombs’ and the Resurgence of Radical Democracy in the US},
  author={N. Heynen},
  journal={Urban Studies},
  year={2010},
  volume={47},
  pages={1225 - 1240}
}

• N. Heynen
• Published 2010
• Engineering, Political Science
• Urban Studies

This paper examines the efforts of one of the fastest-growing (anarchist) social movement groups in the world, ‘Food Not Bombs’ (FNB), to redefine urban anti-hunger politics in the US. The aim is to understand how FNB contests the politics and processes of poor people’s containment through their efforts to develop new, decommodified modes of biopolitics. As it is central to their success, the paper focuses on how FNB uses non-violent civil-disobedient direct action to provide an alternative… Expand

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