Politicizing hospitality: The emergency food assistance landscape in Thessaloniki

Hospitality and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 249-274

  Kravva, Vasiliki ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Charity; Emergency food assistance; Ethics; Moral spaces; Urban poverty; Welfare policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956669559     PISSN: 20427913     EISSN: 20427921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1386/hosp.4.3.249_1     Document Type: Article

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55. Kravva, V. (2014), 'Politicizing hospitality: The emergency food assistance landscape in Thessaloniki', Hospitality & Society 4: 3, pp. 249-274, doi: 10.1386/hosp.4.3.249_1