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This edited collection explores how food language is political. The contributors examine the production of food language in conjunction with historical social movements, food labeling practices, illustrations of social class, as well as corporate and bureaucratic language.
List of contents
Introduction: How does food language function politically?
Samuel Boerboom
Chapter 1 Tracing the "Back to the Land" Trope: Self-Sufficiency, Counterculture, and Community
Jessica M. Prody
Chapter 2 Végétariens Radicaux: John Oswald and the Trope of Sympathy in Revolutionary Paris
Justin Killian
Chapter 3 The Revolution Will Not Be (Food) Reviewed: Politics of Agitation and Control of Occupy Kitchen
Amy Pason
Chapter 4 Haute Colonialism: Exocitizing Povery in Bizarre Foods America
Casey Ryan Kelly
Chapter 5 Pungent Yet Problematic: The Class-Based Framing of Ramps in the New York Times and the Charleston Gazette
Melissa Boehm
Chapter 6 Constructing Taste and Waste as Habitus: Food and Matters of Access and In/Security
Leda Cooks
Chapter 7 Tying the Knot: How Industry and Advocacy Organizations Market Language as Humane
Joseph L. Abisaid
Chapter 8 Corn Allergy: Public Policy, Private Devastation
Kathy Brady
Chapter 9 Family Farms with Happy Cows: A Narrative Analysis of Horizon Organic Dairy Packaging Labels
Jennifer L. Adams
Chapter 10 Chipotle Mexican Grill's Meatwashing Propaganda: Corporate-Speak Hiding Suffering of "Commodity" Animals
Ellen W. Gorsevski
Chapter 11 Corporate Colonization in the Market: Discursive Closures and the Greenwashing
of Food Discourse
Megan A. Koch and Cristin A. Compton
Chapter 12 Mistaken Consensus and the Body-as-Machine Analogy
Samuel Boerboom
About the author
Samuel Boerboom is assistant professor of media studies in the Department of Communication and Theatre at Montana State University Billings.
Summary
This edited collection explores how food language is political. The contributors examine the production of food language in conjunction with historical social movements, food labeling practices, illustrations of social class, as well as corporate and bureaucratic language.
