Why food matters : critical debates in food studies / edited by Melissa Caldwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caldwell, Melissa L., 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food.

Food--Social aspects.

Nutritional anthropology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 344 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Summary:

What is food and why does it matter? Bringing together the most innovative scholarship and debates, this textbook provides an excellent introduction to the rapidly growing discipline of food studies. Covering a wide range of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches, it challenges common ideas about food and identifies emerging trends that will define the field for years to come.--COVER.

Contents:

Part one. Revaluing food in a global economy: Willing (white) workers on organic farms? Reflections on volunteer farm labor and the politics of precarity / Julie Guthman ; Grocery auction games : distribution and value in the industrialized food system / Micah Marie Trapp ; The labor of Terroir and the Terroir of labor : geographical indication and Darjeeling tea plantations / Sarah Besky

Famine talk : communication styles and socio-political awareness in 1990s North Korea / Sandra Fahy ; Blaming the consumer-once again : the social and material contexts of everyday food waste practices in some English households. David Evans ; Alimentary dignity : defining a decent meal in post-Soviet Cuban household cooking / Hanna Garth

Part two. The power of food : from politics to microbiopolitics: Power at the table : food fights and happy meals / Richard Wilk ; Postsocialist spores : disease, bodies, and the state in the Republic of Georgia / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn ; Everyday approaches to food safety in Kunming / Jakob A. Klein ; Digestive politics in Russia : feeling the sensorium beyond the palate / Melissa L. Caldwell ; Resistance is fertile! / Anne Meneley

Part three. New bodily realities in a techno-science world: "Lose like a man" : gender and the constraints of self-making in Weight Watchers online / Emily Contois ; Everyday translation : health practitioners' perspectives on obesity and metabolic disorders in Samoa / Jessica Hardin ; Sensorial pedagogies, hungry fat cells and the limits of nutritional health education / Emilia Sanabria ; The environmental account of obesity : a case for feminist skepticism / Anna Kirkland ; Who defines babies' "needs"? : the scientization of baby food in Indonesia / Aya Hirata Kimura

Part four. More than human, more than food: Waste, incorporated / Chika Watanabe ; Arts of inclusion, or how to love a mushroom / Anna Tsing ; How to taste like a cow : cultivating shared sense in Wisconsin dairy worlds / Katy Overstreet ; FCJ-142 spectacles and tropes : speculative design and contemporary food cultures / Carl DiSalvo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781350011434

1350011436

9781350011427

1350011428

OCLC:

1233304873

Publisher Number:

99987522881