Anxious Appetites - Food and Consumer Culture

Despite government claims that food is safer and more readily available today than ever before, recent survey evidence demonstrates high levels of food-related anxiety among Western consumers. While chronic hunger and malnutrition are relatively rare in the West, food scares relating to individual products, concerns about global food security and other expressions of consumer anxiety about food remain widespread. explores the causes of these present-day anxieties. Looking at fears over provenance and regulation in a world of lengthening supply chains and greater concentration of corporate power, Peter Jackson investigates how anxieties about food circulate and how they act as a channel for broader social issues. Drawing on case studies such as the 2013 horsemeat scandal and fears about the contamination of infant formula in China in 2008, he examines how and why these concerns emerge. Comparing survey results with ethnographic observation of consumer practice, he explores the gap between official advice about food safety and people''s everyday experience of food, including a critique of ideological notions of ''consumer choice''. A captivating, timely book which presents a new theory of social anxiety.>

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Preface

1. Introduction: The Roots of Contemporary Food Anxieties
2. Mapping Contemporary Food Anxieties
3. Anxiety as a Social Condition
4. Technological Change and Consumer Anxieties about Food
5. 'Food Scares' and the Regulation of Supply Chains
6. Mediating Science and Nature: Parental Anxieties about Food
7. Celebrity Chefs and the Circulation of Food Anxieties
8. Consumer Anxieties and Domestic Food Practices
9. Rethinking 'Convenience' and Food Waste
10. Conclusion: The Routes of Contemporary Food Anxieties

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Info autore

University of Sheffield, UK

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Jackson, Peter (University of Sheffield Jackson, Prof. Peter Jackson, Professor Peter Jackson
• Con la collaborazione di: David Goodman (Editore), Michael K. Goodman (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.09.2015
• EAN: 9781472588142
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-8814-2
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics; Contemporary Food Studies: Eco; Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics; Contemporary Food Studies: Eco
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Food & society, Public safety issues, Social and ethical issues, Cultural studies: food and society