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Informationen zum Autor Anne Murcott is Honorary Professorial Research Associate, at SOAS, University of London, Professor Emerita at London South Bank University and Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. In 2009 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Her most recent book is the textbook The Sociology of Food & Eating (2019). Warren Belasco is Professor Emeritus of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. He is the author of Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took on the Food Industry , Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food , and Food: The Key Concepts . He has edited Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (with Philip Scranton), and Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart (with Roger Horowitz). University of Sheffield, UK Klappentext The last 20 years have seen a burgeoning of social scientific and historical research on food. The field has drawn in experts to investigate topics such as: the way globalisation affects the food supply; what cookery books can (and cannot) tell us; changing understandings of famine; the social meanings of meals - and many more. Now sufficiently extensive to require a critical overview, this is the first handbook of specially commissioned essays to provide a tour d'horizon of this broad range of topics and disciplines. The editors have enlisted eminent researchers across the social sciences to illustrate the debates, concepts and analytic approaches of this widely diverse and dynamic field. This volume will be essential reading, a ready-to-hand reference book surveying the state of the art for anyone involved in, and actively concerned about research on the social, political, economic, psychological, geographic and historical aspects of food. It will cater for all who need to be informed of research that has been done and that is being done. Zusammenfassung The Handbook of Food Research presents in-depth essays from an international group of scholars and offers an essential roadmap of this dynamic field of study, with insight into past and present research and cutting-edge developments for future study. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Sidney W. Mintz (John Hopkins University, USA)A Burgeoning Field: Introduction to The Handbook of Food Research - Anne Murcott, (SOAS, University of Nottingham and London South Bank University, UK) Part One: Historical Essentials Editorial IntroductionThe History of Globalization and the Food Supply - Leigh Bush, Adrianne Bryant, and Richard Wilk (Indiana University, USA)Re-thinking the Economic and Social History of Agriculture and Food, Through the Lens of Food Choice - Richard Le Heron (University of Auckland, NZ) Feeding Growing Cities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Problems, Innovations and Reputations - Peter Scholliers and Patricia Van Den Eeckhout, (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)The Historical Development of Industrial and Domestic Food Technologies- Mónica Truninger (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal) Social History of the Science of Food Analysis and the Control of Adulteration- Peter J. Atkins, (University of Durham, UK) Representations of Food Production and Consumption: Cookbooks as Historical Sources - Kyri W. Claflin (Boston University, USA) Part Two: Frameworks of Provision: Production and Distribution Editorial IntroductionContemporary Food Systems - Terry Marsden (Cardiff University, UK)Economics, Food Demand and Nutrition - Richard Tiffin and Matthew Salois (University of Reading, UK)Food Chains - Bill Pritchard (University of Sydney, Australia) Food and the Audit Society - Hugh Campbell (University of Otago, NZ)Environmental Issues in Agriculture: Farming Systems and Ecosystem Services - Michael Winter (University of Exeter, UK)Appe...
