Ecopolitics of Consumption (eBook)

The Food Trade

H. Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, Madhudaya Sinha (Herausgeber)

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2015
208 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1996-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection adds a new dimension to the field of ecocritical theory by merging multidisciplinary approaches to food studies with the established ecocritical discourse of culture and the environment. Encompassing a theme of confinement and control through the global industrial food systems, the collection explores the role of consumption and commodification in contemporary life and points to new directions for resistance and change.

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Today's highly industrialized and technologically controlled global food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us, human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost, increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.

Autor

H. Louise Davis is associate professor of American studies and chair of the Integrative Studies Department at Miami University of Ohio.Karyn Pilgrim is an associate professor of cultural studies at SUNY Empire State College.Madhudaya Sinha is lecturer in the Integrative Studies Department at Miami University of Ohio.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Oodles of Noodles: Nestlé India and the Maggi Consumer NightmareMadhu SinhaChapter 3: Spectacles of Revulsion: The Challenges of Bush-Tucker as Contemporary CuisineNicole AnaeChapter 4: “Pets or Food?”: Unstable Object Lessons in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, MiracleKaryn PilgrimChapter 5: Agvocates for Industry: Citizen-Farmers, Social Media, and the Gendered Production of FoodCori BrewsterChapter 6: The Politics of Food Behind BarsSalvador Jimenez MurgiaChapter 7: Live Feeds: Surveillance and the Food-Industrial ComplexDaniel GrinbergChapter 8: What Grows in Silicon Valley? The Emerging Ideology of Food TechnologyChristopher Miles & Nancy SmithChapter 9: Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Cuba’s Quest for Food Security in the Twenty-First CenturyMelanie Zeigler and Walt VanderbushChapter 10: The Political Economy of Food Production: The Low-Input Alternative to the Capital System’s High-Input Structural Dynamics Robert Drury KingChapter 11: He Who Feeds You Will Also Impose His Will on You”: Food Sovereignty Versus the Free MarketH. Louise DavisAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Co-Autor: Nicole Anae, Cori Brewster, Daniel Grinberg, Robert King, Christopher Miles, Salvador Jimenez Murguia, Nancy Smith, Walt Vanderbush, Melanie Ziegler
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Schlagworte: Commodities • Food • Trading
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1996-2 / 1498519962
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1996-0 / 9781498519960