Hungry for revolution : the politics of food and the making of modern Chile / Joshua Frens-String.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frens-String, Joshua, 1985- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--Political aspects--Chile.

Food security.

Chile--History--20th century.

Chile.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled both the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties between workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, historian Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In doing so, the author deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state’s efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Building a Revolutionary Appetite

Part One. A Hungry Nation

1. Worlds of Abundance, Worlds of Scarcity

2. Red Consumers

Part Two Containing Hunger

3. Controlling for Nutrition

4. Cultivating Consumption

Part Three. Recipes for Change

5. When Revolution Tasted Like Empanadas and Red Wine

6. A Battle for the Chilean Stomach

7. Barren Plots and Empty Pots

Epilogue: Counterrevolution at the Market

Key Acronyms and Terms in Chilean Food History

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520974753

0520974751

OCLC:

1237649537