Food in Society (eBook)

Economy, Culture, Geography

UK) Atkins Peter (Durham University, Ian Bowler (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
344 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-1-317-83599-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Who can deny the significance of food? It has a central role in our health and pleasure as well as in our economy, politics and culture. Food in Society provides a social science perspective on food systems and demonstrates the rich variety of disciplinary and theoretical contexts of food studies.While hunger and malnutrition remain a reality in many countries, for some food has become an experience rather than a sustenance. This book addresses the different worldwide understandings of food through thematic chapters and a wide range of material including: description of the political economy of the food chain, from production to the point of sale; analysis of global issues of supply and demand; critical debate of environmental and health aspects of food, including GM food, the role of habits, taboos, age and gender in food consumption.Each chapter contains a guide to further reading and to websites of relevance to food. Extensively illustrated, this book is essential reading for students of food studies in the social sciences and humanities.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• ISBN-10: 1-317-83599-9 / 1317835999
• ISBN-13: 978-1-317-83599-8 / 9781317835998