The political language of food / edited by Samuel Boerboom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boerboom, Samuel, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Terminology--Political aspects.

Food.

Food--Moral and ethical aspects.

Food industry and trade--Terminology--Political aspects.

Food industry and trade.

Food industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 275 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]

Summary:

The political language of food addresses why the language used in the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is inherently political. Food language is rarely neutral and is often strategic vague which tends to serve the interests of powerful entities Samuel Boerboom and his contributors critique the language of food based messages and examines how such language - including idioms tropes, euphemisms invented terms, and so forth-serves to both mislead idioms tropes, euphemisms, invented terms, and so forth-serves to both mislead and obscure relationships between food and the resulting community health, labor and environmental impacts Employing diverse methodologies the contributors examine on a micro-level the textual and rhetorical elements of food-based language itself, The Political Language of Food is both timely and important and will appeal to scholar of media studies political communication and rhetoric. Book jacket.

Contents:

Tracing the "back to the land" trope : self-sufficiency, counterculture, and community / Jessica M. Prody

Végétariens radicaux : John Oswald and the trope of sympathy in revolutionary Paris / Justin Killian

The revolution will not be (food) reviewed : politics of agitation and control of occupy kitchen / Amy Pason

Haute colonialism : exocitizing povery in bizarre foods America / Casey Ryan Kelly

Pungent yet problematic : the class-based framing of ramps in the New York Times and the Charleston Gazette / Melissa Boehm

Constructing taste and waste as habitus : food and matters of access and in/security / Leda Cooks

Tying the knot : how industry and advocacy organizations market language as humane / Joseph L. Abisaid

Corn allergy : public policy, private devastation / Kathy Brady

Family farms with happy cows : a narrative analysis of horizon organic dairy packaging labels / Jennifer L. Adams

Chipotle Mexican Grill's meatwashing propaganda : corporate-speak hiding suffering of "commodity" animals / Ellen W. Gorsevski

Corporate colonization in the market : discursive closures and the greenwashing of food discourse / Megan A. Koch and Cristin A. Compton

Mistaken consensus and the body-as-machine analogy / Samuel Boerboom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1498505554

9781498505550

OCLC:

903675285

Publisher Number:

99963434243