Global food, global justice : essays on eating under globalization / edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and Caleb Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rawlinson, Mary C., editor.

Ward, Caleb, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Moral and ethical aspects.

Food.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

As Brillant-Savarin remarked in 1825 in his classic text Physiologie du Goût, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." Philosophers and political theorists have only recently begun to pay attention to food as a critical domain of human activity and social justice. Too often these discussions treat food as a commodity and eating as a matter of individual choice. Policies that address the global obesity crisis by focusing on individual responsibility and medical interventions ignore the dependency of human agency on a culture of possibilities.The essays collected here address thi

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Part II

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Part III

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8234-8

OCLC:

921235572