Freeganism
Freeganism is a politically or ethically motivated way of life, whose followers try to earn their own living as independently of consumption as possible . In the media, freegans are often reduced to " containers ". Due to the ban on tapes at the University of Freiburg and the tolerance in Lüneburg , the consumption of leftover food in cafeterias also received attention in Germany.
In contrast to people who, due to economic constraints, are forced to live on donations or “garbage” from others, Freegans put themselves more or less consciously into this situation. Often this decision is motivated by an anarchist or anti-capitalist political position that fundamentally criticizes the consumer society and the throwaway society . Sociologically , freegans in the United States are predominantly recruited from left-liberal to radical left-wing academic circles, are predominantly middle-class and have a job or do not work voluntarily.
On the one hand, freeganism is a possibility for political activists to shape their own lives independently of (more) “capitalist constraints”; For example, a US case study from 2010 found that a container tour can collect groceries worth between 100 and 200 US dollars. On the other hand, the production of goods from "junk" but also a kind of propaganda of the deed . In German-speaking countries are so-called Volxküchen often freegan, so do not get their food from the market. Free shops or info shops often give away furniture, electrical appliances or bicycles that have been containerized and poorly repaired or cleaned, and are thus part of a society that is based on a gift economy or a free economy .
The word freegan is derived from the English free for “free” and vegan for someone who, because of a negative attitude towards the treatment of animals as resources or goods, does not consume or otherwise use animal products. In practice, not all freegans share a vegan position.
literature
- Michelle Coyne: From Production to Destruction to Recovery: Freeganism's Redefinition of Food Value and Circulation . In: Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies . 10, No. 11, 2009. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- Victoria C Moré: Dumpster Dinners: An Ethnographic Study of Freeganism . In: Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography . No. 1, 2011, p. 43. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- Jeff Shantz: One Person's Garbage ... Another Person's Treasure: Dumpster Diving, Freeganism, and Anarchy . In: VERB . 3, No. 1, 2005. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- Lauren Corman: Getting Their Hands Dirty: Raccoons, Freegans, and Urban “Trash” . In: Journal for Critical Animal Studies . 9, No. 3, 2011, ISSN 1948-352X , pp. 28-61. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Corman
- ^ "I'm the gutter gourmet: how I spent a month eating other people's leftovers," Guardian, May 30, 2019
- ↑ Schantz, Katharina (2016): Dispute over cafeteria leftover food: From tape to mouth , taz, November 30, 2016
- ↑ Pettmann, Petra (2018): "Bänder": Legal and almost healthy , gv-praxis, June 2018
- ↑ a b c Moré
- ↑ a b Coyne
- ↑ a b Shantz