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This text provides a comprehensive exploration of food from the unique perspective of place. It shows that our experiences with food are deeply influenced by their cultural, social, economic, and political contexts. Critically engaged and connected to current activist and academic debates, Food and Place will be an essential resource for students.
Sommario
Introduction
Chapter 1: Food and Place: An Introduction
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco
Chapter 2: A Place Perspective on Food: Key Concepts and Theoretical Foundations
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco
Part I: Food Regimes
Chapter 3: Networks of Global Production and Resistance: Meat, Dairy and Place
Alida Cantor, Jody Emel, and Harvey Neo
Chapter 4: Genetically Modified Crops and the Remaking of Latin America's Food Landscape
Elizabeth Fitting
Chapter 5: Farm Labor, Immigration and Race
Lise Nelson
Chapter 6: Ethical Food and Global Commodity Chains
Hannah Evans and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
Chapter 7: Global Hunger: Poverty, Inequality, and Vulnerability
Daniel Ervin, Cascade Tuholske, and David López-Carr
Part II: Foodscapes
Chapter 8: Food and Gentrification: How Foodies are Transforming Urban Neighborhoods
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco
Chapter 9: Can Place Cause Obesity? A Critical Perspective on the Food Environment
Julie Guthman
Chapter 10: Food Banks and the Devolution of Anti-Hunger Policy
Daniel N. Warshawsky
Chapter 11: Spaces of Alternative Food: Urban Agriculture, Community Gardens,
and Farmers Markets
Fernando J. Bosco and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
Part III: Bodies
Chapter 12: Food, Ethnicity, and Place: Producing Identity and Difference
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Zia Salim, and Vienne Vu
Chapter 13: Critical Nutrition: Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Bodily Nourishment
Jessica Hayes-Conroy and Allison Hayes-Conroy
Chapter 14: Food, Biopower, and the Child's Body as a Scale of Intervention
Sarah E. Dempsey and Kristina E. Gibson
Chapter 15: Cooking at Home: Gender, Class, Race, and Social Reproduction
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Enrico Marcelli
Chapter 16: Chefs Celebrities, Experts, or Advocates?
Blaire O'Neal and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
Glossary
Index
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Edited by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco
Riassunto
This text provides a comprehensive exploration of food from the unique perspective of place. It shows that our experiences with food are deeply influenced by their cultural, social, economic, and political contexts. Critically engaged and connected to current activist and academic debates, Food and Place will be an essential resource for students.
