The politics of food
Title:
The politics of food
Author:
Lien, Marianne E.
ISBN:
9781423747277
9781845205829
9781280339493
Publication Information:
Oxford : Berg, 2004.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 244 p.)
General Note:
Contains selected papers based on a workshop at the 2002 conference of the EASA (European Associaion of Social Anthropologists).
Contents:
Politics of food : an introduction / Handling food-related risks : political agency and governmentality / Risk, blame and culture : foot and mouth disease and the debate about cheap food / Rhetoric of food : food as nature, commodity and culture / Risky science and savoir-faire : peasant expertise in the French debate over genetically modified crops / Enjoyment and choice in an age of risk : the case of BSE in the Czech republic / Western food and the making of the Japanese nation-state / Politics of taste and smell : Palestinian rites of return / Grades and standards in the social construction of safe food / Dogs, whales and kangaroos : transnational activism and food taboos / Political economy of food in an unequal world / On the legacy of The politics of food
Abstract:
'The Politics of Food' raises provocative questions about how we relate to food in the 21st century. Through ethnographic case studies it reveals how food has come to serve a key role in political resistance and nation-building.
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