Food values in Europe / edited by Valeria Siniscalchi and Krista Harper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Siniscalchi, Valeria, editor.

Harper, Krista, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Europe--History.

Food habits.

Food habits--Social aspects.

Europe.

History.

Food habits--Social aspects--Europe.

Cooking, European.

Europe--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 244 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"What can a focus on approaches to food practices in Europe tell us about the communities and cultures that exist there? Krista Harper and Valeria Siniscalchi show how food becomes a marker of identity and resistance to social exclusion, and food values become tools for transforming power dynamics, in a range of European countries. Through the comparison of local food, food justice and other food-centred movements across Europe, the book explains how these forms of mobilization express ideologies as well as economic and political objectives. The chapters use ethnographic detail to focus on the differences between "new" and "old" values carried by individuals and groups in relation to food in Portugal, Greece, Latvia, Moldova, Denmark, the UK, Italy and France. Contributors analyze food values, as expressed in daily life and livelihoods, through specific practices of production, exchange and consumption. Topics covered include Prague's urban agricultural scene, the perception of poverty in Moldova, and organic food cooperatives in Catalonia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Value and Values in Food Projects in Europe p. 1 / Krista Harper and Valeria Siniscalchi

Part 1 Presuming Values

2 Food Values in a Lisbon Urban Garden: Between Sabor, Saber, and the Market p. 17 / Krista Harper and Ana Isabel Afonso

3 Growing Together; Conspicuous Production and Quality Produce in Czech Community Gardens p. 33 / Cary Speck

4 Subsistence Farming in Styria, Austria p. 48 / Elisabeth Kosnik

Part 2 Calculating Values

5 The Moral Price of Milk: Food Values and the Intersection of Moralities and Economies in Dairy Family Farms in Galicia p. 65 / Bibiana Martinez Álvarez

6 From Milk Price to Milk Value: Sardinian Sheepherders Facing Neoliberal Restructuring p. 79 / Filippo M. Zerilli and Marco Pitzalis

7 "Small Farms, Better Food": Valuing Local Agri-Food Systems in Europe from the European Peasants Coordination to the Nyéléni European Forum for Food Sovereignty p. 95 / Delphine Thivet

Part 3 Connecting Values

8 Solidarity, Calculation, and Economic Proximity inside the "Vegetable Basket" System in the South of France p. 115 / Valeria Siniscalchi

9 Within and Beyond the Market System: Organic Food Cooperatives in Catalonia p. 132 / Patricia Homs and Susana Narotzky

10 Seventy Percent Zapatista? Solidarity "Ecosystems" and the Troubles of Valuing Labor in Food Cooperatives p. 147 / Theodoros Rakopoulos

Part 4 Consuming Values

11 Fairness Is Elsewhere: "Training" Fair Trade in Post-Socialist Contexts p. 163 / Guntra Aistara

12 The Changing Value of Food: Calculating Moldova's Poverty p. 178 / Jennifer Cash

13 Food Values among African Caribbean Migrants in England p. 193 / Dana Conzo

14 Debating Halal in Contemporary Denmark p. 207 / Johan Fischer

15 Concluding Comments: The Essential Ambiguity of the Value of Food p. 221 / Richard Wilk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Siniscalchi, Valeria, Food values in Europe

ISBN:

9781350084773

1350084778

OCLC:

1043404951