Feeding Anxieties - The Politics of Children''s Food in Poland

Informationen zum Autor Zofia Boni is a social anthropologist and sociologist. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Zofia’s research interests focus on children's lives and embodied experiences, moral and political economies of food and health and the social dynamics of childhood obesity. Klappentext Focusing on the underlying politics behind children's food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children in Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children, the book demonstrates how families, schools, the food industry and state agencies shape and experience feeding anxieties, and how such anxiety is at the heart of a new form of sociality. The book complicates our understanding of health and modern subjectivity and unpacks what and how we feed children today.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Zofia Boni
• Editore: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781800738713
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-871-3
• Pagine: 208
• Serie: New Anthropologies of Europe; New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Poland, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Food & society, Social and cultural anthropology, Age groups: children, Cultural studies: food and society