ABSTRACT The Free Café is a citizen-driven collective in the city of Groningen, the Netherlands that serves a free meal biweekly, using food that would otherwise be thrown away. While principally attempting to create a space where financial pressures and social status are lifted, the group also works to raise awareness about the environmental and societal impacts of food. Using Gibson-Graham’s community economies (CE) lens to analyse the Free Café, this paper aims to understand how urban citizen collectives are organised and governed, to better facilitate local action in food initiatives. Through participant observation and in-depth interviews, this research focuses on the daily practices, interactions, organisation and challenges surrounding the Free Café, to draw lessons about urban collective action and CE. Though findings indicate internal conflicts and contradictions, through sharing its vision and opportunities, the café is found to be valuable to food-waste awareness-raising and experimentation towards sustainable post-capitalist societies.

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“与食物无关，也与食物有关”：格罗宁根免费咖啡厅的城市集体行动，社区经济和自治食品系统

摘要FreeCafé是荷兰格罗宁根市的一个公民主导的集体，每两周免费提供一顿饭，使用否则会被丢弃的食物。在主要尝试创建一个可以消除财务压力和社会地位的空间的同时，该小组还致力于提高人们对食品对环境和社会影响的认识。本文使用吉布森-格雷厄姆（Gibson-Graham）的社区经济（CE）视角分析免费咖啡馆，旨在了解城市公民集体的组织和管理方式，以便更好地促进食品行动中的地方行动。通过参与者的观察和深入的访谈，本研究重点关注免费咖啡馆周围的日常实践，互动，组织和挑战，以汲取有关城市集体行动和行政长官的经验教训。