Abstract

In 2012 in a formerly abandoned meat market in Brussels, Belgium, an NGO was founded to produce social inclusion programs and transform an under-used urban space into a community hub. In attempting to fulfill its goal, the founders, staff, and volunteers have used surplus unsold market produce that would otherwise have been discarded in order to fuel several programs, by inviting people to take food or to come and share a meal. This article is an ethnographic study of those efforts that rely on food waste to promote community engagement, and considers them as alternative forms of “scrappy collaboration” and commensality. In probing “scrappy collaboration” as a framework for understanding food sharing in a modern European capital, the article investigates the use of food waste to produce social inclusion as well as to provide a means of both subsistence and resistance.

摘要

2012 年，在比利时布鲁塞尔一个以前废弃的肉类市场，一个非政府组织成立，旨在制定社会包容计划，并将未充分利用的城市空间转变为社区中心。为了实现其目标，创始人、员工和志愿者使用了剩余的未售出的市场产品，否则这些产品将被丢弃，以通过邀请人们吃东西或来共享餐点来推动多个项目。这篇文章是对那些依靠食物浪费促进社区参与的努力的民族志研究，并将它们视为“糟糕的合作”和共性的替代形式。在探索“糟糕的合作”作为理解现代欧洲首都食物共享的框架时，