Article Review: the Social Movement 'Food Not Bombs' (Article Critique Sample)

Article Review: The Social Movement 'Food Not Bombs' Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Course Name and Number Instructor’s Name Date of Submission Article Review: The Social Movement 'Food Not Bombs' Cooking up Non-violent Civil-disobedient Direct Action for the Hungry: ‘Food Not Bombs’ and the Resurgence of Radical Democracy in the US. Urban Studies, 47(6), 1225-1240 is an article written by Heynen, N. in 2009. The article’s main idea is to protest capitalism and promote the provision of free meals to Americans in need. The article criticizes the structural and systemic hierarchical organizational structure and promotes a horizontal and autonomous model that allows every member of society to attain equal opportunities for meeting their own needs as a community. Heynen argues that achieving this objective requires the adoption of new, decommodified modes of biopolitics that are rooted in nonviolent civil disobedience and grassroots mobilization to eliminate the existing market-driven ideals of neo-liberal capitalism. For example, the author criticizes capitalist principles that utilize state welfare benefits to take advantage of the poor by controlling labor markets and triggering social unrest as a means of increasing overdependence among citizens. Specifically, the government leverages stringent policies, such as the Food Stamp Act of 1977 and other federal organizations to regulate the poor and push them further to the corners of American society (Heynen, 2009). The author explicates the existing disciplinary imperatives that continue to deprive innocent citizens of their rights, freedoms and the pursuit of happiness. The government is using federal policies to promote inequality and human i...