Dickinson, Maggie. Feeding the crisis: Care and abandonment in America's food safety net. Berkeley: University of California press, 2019, $29.95 (paperback), $29.95 (ebook), $85.00 (hardback), 224 pages, ISBN:9780520307674.

In it, Dickinson excavates common terms like "care", abandonment", and "exclusion" to argue that not only is poverty unnatural, but it is also engineered and reinforced by public policies that create hierarchies of deservedness that people like Nigel navigate on a regular basis. In Chapter One, we are introduced to the North Brooklyn Pantry where Dickinson conducted fieldwork and Nigel, a regular volunteer and recipient of food at the pantry. Serving as an introductory chapter that sets up the book's main arguments, chapter one provides an overview of growing food insecurity, economic disparities, and the technocratic fixes that have failed the families who rely on food assistance. [Extracted from the article]