Ecopolitics of Consumption - The Food Trade

Informationen zum Autor H. Louise Davis is associate professor of American studies and chair of the Integrative Studies Department at Miami University of Ohio.Karyn Pilgrim is an associate professor of cultural studies at SUNY Empire State College.Madhudaya Sinha is lecturer in the Integrative Studies Department at Miami University of Ohio. Klappentext This collection adds to the field of ecocritical theory by merging multidisciplinary approaches to food studies with the established ecocritical discourse of culture and the environment. With themes of confinement and control in the global industrial food systems, this book explores the role of consumption and commodification in contemporary life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Oodles of Noodles: Nestlé India and the Maggi Consumer NightmareMadhu SinhaChapter 3: Spectacles of Revulsion: The Challenges of Bush-Tucker as Contemporary CuisineNicole AnaeChapter 4: "Pets or Food?": Unstable Object Lessons in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, MiracleKaryn PilgrimChapter 5: Agvocates for Industry: Citizen-Farmers, Social Media, and the Gendered Production of FoodCori BrewsterChapter 6: The Politics of Food Behind BarsSalvador Jimenez MurgiaChapter 7: Live Feeds: Surveillance and the Food-Industrial ComplexDaniel GrinbergChapter 8: What Grows in Silicon Valley? The Emerging Ideology of Food TechnologyChristopher Miles & Nancy SmithChapter 9: Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Cuba's Quest for Food Security in the Twenty-First CenturyMelanie Zeigler and Walt VanderbushChapter 10: The Political Economy of Food Production: The Low-Input Alternative to the Capital System's High-Input Structural Dynamics Robert Drury KingChapter 11: He Who Feeds You Will Also Impose His Will on You": Food Sovereignty Versus the Free MarketH. Louise DavisAbout the Contributors

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• Authors: H. Louise Pilgrim Davis
• Assisted by: H. Louise Davis (Editor), Davis H. Louise (Editor), Karyn Pilgrim (Editor), Pilgrim Karyn (Editor), Madhudaya Sinha (Editor), Sinha Madhudaya (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2015
• EAN: 9781498519953
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1995-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Food & society, Food security & supply, Central / national / federal government policies, Environmental policy & protocols, Cultural studies: food and society, Central government policies, Food security and supply, Environmental policy and protocols, Commodities;Food;Trading