Food Culture and Politics in the Baltic States

Informationen zum Autor Diana Mincyte is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships! she publishes on social and environmental dimensions of agro-food systems both in and outside of post-socialist East Europe.Ulrike Plath is a Professor of German culture and history in the Baltic region at Tallinn University and a senior researcher at the Under and Tuglas LiteratureCentre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. She has published in the areas of Baltic cultural history of the Enlightenment and Baltic foods! gardening! and environmental history. Zusammenfassung Focusing on Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, this edited volume examines changing food production and consumption practices in the Baltic region in the politically tumultuous twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Exploring Modern Foodways: History, Nature, and Culture in the Baltic States Good, Clean, Fair … and Illegal: Paradoxes of Food Ethics in Post-Socialist Latvia Geographies of Reconnection at the Marketplace Changing Values of Wild Berries in Estonian Households: Recollections from an Ethnographic Archive "Is that Hunger Haunting the Stove?" The Evolution of Household Foodscapes over Two Decades of Transition in Latvia The Making of the Consumer? Risk and Consumption in Europeanized Lithuania Atlantic Herring in Estonia: In the Transverse Waves of International Economy and National Ideology

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Diana (Department of Social Science Mincyte
• Con la collaborazione di: Diana Mincyte (Editore), Ulrike Plath (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.05.2017
• EAN: 9781138702936
• ISBN: 978-1-138-70293-6
• Pagine: 148
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Estonia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Food & society, Latvia, Lithuania, Food & beverage technology, Food and beverage technology, Cultural studies: food and society, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Food Science / General