Abstract (eng)
This master’s thesis investigates on possible advantages and disadvantages of food saving activities in supermarkets by specialized NGOs, considering these activities (among many others) as a possibility to relieve hunger provoked by systemic disparities. The theory of Neogramscianism by Robert Cox is employed to define finance capitalism, neoliberalism and the mode of mass production as an international historic bloc on one side. The so-called third, corporate food regime and the entity of the supermarket, inter alia, central to this thesis forming part of the latter. And to define the progressive grassroot movement and the, in this thesis central food saving NGO’s, arising within the regime on the other side as a movement of reversed transformismo. The in the empirical part of this master’s thesis consulted NGOs are the Viennese foodsharing Austria and Lebensmittelrettung Österreich and the surveyed supermarket corporations are the Viennese SPAR Holding AG, REWE GROUP and dennree. All of them are, just as the Austrian government and individual citizens, examples for stakeholders of the Viennese food saving movement, the latter as well being outlined in the theoretical part of this work. It is an underlying aim of this master’s thesis to put forward the work and influence of smaller NGOs in the field of food saving activities.