The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know--And Start Again

Chilton, Mariana

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-10-01
  • 售價: $1,390
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 392
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0262048302
  • ISBN-13: 9780262048309
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商品描述

A radical and urgent new approach to how we can solve the problems of hunger and poverty in the US.

Most people think hunger has to do with food: researchers, policy makers, and advocates focus on promoting government-funded nutrition assistance; well-meaning organizations try to get expired or wasted food to marginalized communities; and, philanthropists donate their money to the cause and congratulate themselves for doing so. But few people ask about the structural issues undergirding hunger, such as, who benefits from keeping people in such a state of precarity? In The Painful Truth about Hunger in America, Mariana Chilton shows that the solution to food insecurity lies far beyond food and must incorporate personal, political, and spiritual approaches if we are serious about fixing the crisis.

Drawing on 25 years of research, programming, and advocacy efforts, Chilton powerfully demonstrates that food insecurity is created and maintained by people in power. Taking the reader back to the original wounds in the United States caused by its history of colonization, genocide, and enslavement, she forces us to reckon with hard questions about why people in the US allow hunger to persist. Drawing upon intimate interviews she conducted with many Black and brown women, the author reveals that the experience of hunger is rooted in trauma and gender-based violence--violence in our relationships with one another, with the natural world, and with ourselves--and that, if we want to fix hunger, we must transform our society through compassion, love, and connection. Especially relevant for young people charting new paths toward abolition, mutual aid, and meaningful livelihoods, The Painful Truth about Hunger in America reinvigorates our commitment to uprooting the causes of poverty and discrimination, and points to a more generative and humane world where everyone can be nourished.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一種激進且緊迫的新方法,來解決美國的飢餓和貧窮問題。

大多數人認為飢餓與食物有關:研究人員、政策制定者和倡導者專注於推動政府資助的營養援助;善意的組織試圖將過期或浪費的食物送到邊緣化社區;而慈善家則捐款支持這一事業,並為此自我感到驕傲。但很少有人會詢問飢餓背後的結構性問題,例如,誰從讓人們處於這種不穩定狀態中獲益?在《美國飢餓的痛苦真相》中,Mariana Chilton 表示,解決食物不安全的方案遠不止於食物,必須結合個人、政治和精神層面的方式,才能真正解決這一危機。

Chilton 基於 25 年的研究、計劃和倡導努力,強有力地證明了食物不安全是由掌權者創造和維持的。她帶領讀者回顧美國因殖民、種族滅絕和奴役歷史所造成的原始創傷,迫使我們面對艱難的問題:為什麼美國人允許飢餓持續存在。通過與許多黑人和棕色女性的親密訪談,作者揭示了飢餓的經歷根植於創傷和基於性別的暴力——這種暴力存在於我們彼此之間、與自然世界以及與我們自己之間的關係中——如果我們想要解決飢餓問題,就必須通過同情、愛和連結來改變我們的社會。《美國飢餓的痛苦真相》對於那些在尋求廢除、互助和有意義生計的新道路上探索的年輕人尤其相關,重新激發了我們根除貧窮和歧視根源的承諾,並指向一個更具生產性和人道的世界,讓每個人都能得到滋養。

作者簡介

Mariana Chilton is Professor of Health Management and Policy at Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. She founded the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, where she launched Witnesses to Hunger, a movement to increase women's participation in the national dialogue on hunger and poverty, and the Building Wealth and Health Network to promote healing and economic security. She has testified on solutions to hunger before the US Senate and US House of Representatives.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Mariana Chilton 是德雷克塞大學多恩斯費公共衛生學院的健康管理與政策教授。她創立了無飢餓社區中心,並啟動了「飢餓見證者」運動,旨在提高女性在全國飢餓與貧窮對話中的參與度,以及建立財富與健康網絡以促進療癒與經濟安全。她曾在美國參議院和美國眾議院就解決飢餓的方案作證。