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Food / John Coveney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coveney, John.
- Series:
- Shortcuts (Routledge (Firm))
- Shortcuts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food--Social aspects.
- Food.
- Food in popular culture.
- Food habits.
- Food preferences.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 108 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- Summary:
- The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure and political power, food is and has been an enduring requirement of human biological, social and cultural existence. In recent years, interest in food has increased across the academic, public and popular, spheres, fuelled by popular media's constant play on the role of food and body size, and food and cooking, as a mass spectacle for TV audiences. In Food, John Coveney examines 'food as ...' humanness, identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment and justice. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human. Through food, we construct our social identities, our families and communities. But this Shortcut also highlights the tensions between the industrialisation of food, the environment and the fair (or otherwise) worldwide distribution of food. It considers how the food industries, on which most of us have to rely, have also had direct effects on our bodies - whether through diet and longevity, or the development of illness and disease. This book is for students and general readers alike-for anyone with a fascination with food. It questions the idea that food is merely something inert on the plate. Instead, it shows how influential, symbolic, powerful and transformative food has come to be. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Food as ... humanness 6
- 2 Food as ... identity 19
- 3 Food as ... politics 32
- 4 Food as ... industry 45
- 5 Food as ... regulation 60
- 6 Food as ... the environment 73
- 7 Food as ... justice 87.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415524452
- 0415524458
- 9780415524469
- 0415524466
- OCLC:
- 802325494
- Publisher Number:
- 99954718033
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