Feeding the Future: Community, Horizontal Leadership and Direct Action Through Mutual Aid in Food Not Bombs Houston’s Movement for Change

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dc.citation.firstpage1en_US
dc.citation.lastpage49en_US
dc.citation.pageNumber49 ppen_US
dc.contributor.advisorJalili, Jalehen_US
dc.contributor.authorHaacke, Matthew W.en_US
dc.contributor.publisherRice Universityen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-22T22:11:22Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-05-22T22:11:22Zen_US
dc.date.issued2025-05-05en_US
dc.description.abstractThrough ethnographic fieldwork and interviews (n=13), this study examines how Food Not Bombs Houston (FNBH) operates as a social movement through mutual aid. I explore how FNBH fosters community, deploys horizontal leadership, and engages in direct action to prefigure a better world. My findings demonstrate how FNBH’s food-sharing practices and mutual aid serve as a repertoire of contention, actively disrupting capitalist structures and resisting state control through spatial occupation. By fostering community resilience through a decentralized, non-hierarchical, consensus-based organizational model, FNBH embodies prefigurative politics—creating alternative systems of care outside of traditional non-profit structures and state control. This analysis challenges traditional social movement scholarship by demonstrating how mutual aid operates not just as a direct service but as a long-term form of resistance through everyday acts of solidarity.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/j3x9-ct97en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/118357en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsExcept where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the terms of the license or beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holderen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subject.keywordsocial movementsen_US
dc.subject.keywordmutual aiden_US
dc.subject.keywordurban spaceen_US
dc.subject.keywordpublic spaceen_US
dc.subject.keywordhorizontal leadershipen_US
dc.subject.keywordprefigurative politicsen_US
dc.subject.keywordcommunity resistanceen_US
dc.subject.keywordhomelessnessen_US
dc.subject.keywordpolitical sociologyen_US
dc.titleFeeding the Future: Community, Horizontal Leadership and Direct Action Through Mutual Aid in Food Not Bombs Houston’s Movement for Changeen_US
dc.typeReporten_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
thesis.degree.departmentSociologyen_US
thesis.degree.levelUndergraduateen_US
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