Le glanage alimentaire en milieu urbain, ou la constitution de « protections rapprochées »

Food gleaning is usually considered as a subsistence practice, related to scarcity and hunger. This paper revisits this assumption by focusing on gleaning by the lower fractions of the working classes. Based on data from fieldwork still in progress, this article shows that even though gleaning is a...

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Main Author: Martin Manoury
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Language:fra
Published: ENS Éditions 2021-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/traces/12825
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description Food gleaning is usually considered as a subsistence practice, related to scarcity and hunger. This paper revisits this assumption by focusing on gleaning by the lower fractions of the working classes. Based on data from fieldwork still in progress, this article shows that even though gleaning is a way of consuming food that is excluded from the official market supply channels, it cannot be reduced to that. First, through an interactional approach, we explain how this practice can, in some cases, make visible the constitution of close protection, based on moral values of reciprocity and solidarity. Secondly, this article takes a dispositional approach, by analysing the genesis of the non-market economic arrangements of one of the gleaners. We show that these arrangements are not only determined by situations of survival struggles, lack and hunger, but that they are established during past stages of school and professional socialisation, transforming both the modalities of action and the meaning given to the practice.
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Le glanage alimentaire en milieu urbain, ou la constitution de « protections rapprochées »
Tracés
poverty
urban food gleaning
culture of hunger
close protection
reciprocity
title Le glanage alimentaire en milieu urbain, ou la constitution de « protections rapprochées »
title_full Le glanage alimentaire en milieu urbain, ou la constitution de « protections rapprochées »
title_fullStr Le glanage alimentaire en milieu urbain, ou la constitution de « protections rapprochées »
title_full_unstemmed Le glanage alimentaire en milieu urbain, ou la constitution de « protections rapprochées »
title_short Le glanage alimentaire en milieu urbain, ou la constitution de « protections rapprochées »
title_sort le glanage alimentaire en milieu urbain ou la constitution de protections rapprochees
topic poverty
urban food gleaning
culture of hunger
close protection
reciprocity
url https://journals.openedition.org/traces/12825
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