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Dr. Rebecca de Souza. Associate Professor. School of Communications. San Diego State University. Office: COM 241. rtdesouza@sdsu.edu. Rebecca T. de Souza's (Ph.D., Purdue University) research is concerned with how political and economic systems impact access to food, health, and social wellbeing.
In Feeding the Other, Rebecca de Souza argues that food pantries stigmatize their clients through a discourse that emphasizes hard work, self help, and economic productivity rather than food justice and equity. De Souza describes this “framing, blaming, and shaming” as “neoliberal stigma” that recasts the structural issue of hunger as a ...
Oct 21, 2019 · Stigmatizing narratives about those who are hungry and food insecure — that is, poor people, women, and racial minorities — only serve to uphold and legitimize the unjust food system, argues de Souza.
Sep 17, 2019 · September 17, 2019. ‘Feeding the Other’ Examines Race, Privilege, and Stigma Perpetuated by Food Pantries. In her new book, Rebecca de Souza looks at the harmful culture of charitable food pantries that prioritize hard work and economic value over food justice and equity.
Jul 26, 2021 · In Feeding the Other: Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries, Rebecca de Souza challenges this assumption, reframing food pantries as inherently political spaces. She takes a critical look at the ways that food pantries in the U.S. contribute to the stigmatization of vulnerable communities by emphasizing charity over the ...
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Apr 9, 2019 · political science. Feeding the Other. Food, Health, and the Environment. Feeding the Other. Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries. by Rebecca T. de Souza. Paperback. $40.00. Paperback. ISBN: 9780262536769. Pub date: April 9, 2019. Publisher: The MIT Press. 312 pp., 6 x 9 in,
Rebecca de Souza: Feeding the other: Whiteness, privilege, and neoliberal stigma in food pantries. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019, 312 pp., ISBN 9780262536769. Katie MacDougall1. Accepted: 13 July 2021 / Published online: 26 July 2021 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2021.
