Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks

Name: Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks
Author: Ghosh, Candan Türkkan

İsim	Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks
Yazar	Ghosh, Candan Türkkan
Basım Tarihi:	2023
Basım Yeri	- Taylor & Francis
Konu	Databases, Food bank access, Food banks, Istanbul, Means test, Social assistance
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	1753-0350
Kayıt Numarası	1caa15a8-fb09-4b39-85b8-eb46262396cc
Lokasyon	Gastronomy and Culinary Arts
Tarih	2023
Örnek Metin	Introduced in the 2000s as a component of social welfare reforms, the means test determines the eligibility of aid applicants based on previously set income categories. Replacing local committees that decided eligibility, this centralized and digitalized screening process rests on information infrastructures that are mostly invisible. This paper argues that the ways in which applicants contest the outcome of the means test, subvert the eligibility requirements, and go around the screening processes, make visible these otherwise-mostly invisible information infrastructures. Through a discussion of the contestations, subversions, and go-arounds applicants use (not always successfully) to receive emergency food relief from municipal food banks in Istanbul, the paper shows that these information infrastructures not only appear as if they are value-neutral and apolitical, but in so doing, they also serve as useful tools for obscuring who the actual decision makers are.
DOI	10.1080/17530350.2023.2176339
Cilt	16

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Screening for eligibility: access and resistance in Istanbul’s food banks

Yazar Ghosh, Candan Türkkan

Basım Tarihi 2023

Basım Yeri - Taylor & Francis

Konu Databases, Food bank access, Food banks, Istanbul, Means test, Social assistance

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 1753-0350

Kayıt Numarası 1caa15a8-fb09-4b39-85b8-eb46262396cc

Lokasyon Gastronomy and Culinary Arts

Tarih 2023

Örnek Metin Introduced in the 2000s as a component of social welfare reforms, the means test determines the eligibility of aid applicants based on previously set income categories. Replacing local committees that decided eligibility, this centralized and digitalized screening process rests on information infrastructures that are mostly invisible. This paper argues that the ways in which applicants contest the outcome of the means test, subvert the eligibility requirements, and go around the screening processes, make visible these otherwise-mostly invisible information infrastructures. Through a discussion of the contestations, subversions, and go-arounds applicants use (not always successfully) to receive emergency food relief from municipal food banks in Istanbul, the paper shows that these information infrastructures not only appear as if they are value-neutral and apolitical, but in so doing, they also serve as useful tools for obscuring who the actual decision makers are.

DOI 10.1080/17530350.2023.2176339

Cilt 16