Anxious appetites : food and consumer culture / by Peter Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Peter, 1955- author.

Series:

Contemporary food studies: economy, culture and politics.

Contemporary food studies: economy, culture and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Social aspects.

Food habits.

Food--Quality--Social aspects.

Food.

Food contamination--Social aspects.

Food contamination.

Consumers.

Anxiety--Social aspects.

Anxiety.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 222 pages)

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Pub., 2020.

Summary:

Despite government claims that food is safer and more readily available today than ever before, recent survey evidence demonstrates high levels of food-related anxiety among Western consumers. While chronic hunger and malnutrition are relatively rare in the West, food scares relating to individual products, concerns about global food security and other expressions of consumer anxiety about food remain widespread. This book explores the causes of these present-day anxieties. Looking at fears over provenance and regulation in a world of lengthening supply chains and greater concentration of corporate power, Peter Jackson investigates how anxieties about food circulate and how they act as a channel for broader social issues.

Contents:

The roots of contemporary food anxieties

Mapping contemporary food anxieties

Anxiety as a social condition

Technological change and consumer anxieties about food

Food scares and the regulation of supply chains

Mediating science and nature: parental anxieties about food

Celebrity chefs and the circulation of food anxieties

Consumer anxieties and domestic food practices

Rethinking convenience and food waste

The routes of contemporary food anxieties.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index.

ISBN:

9781472588159

1472588150

9781472588166

1472588169

OCLC:

1201425879