Food in society : economy, culture, geography / Peter Atkins and Ian Bowler
- Bib ID:
- 1600821
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Atkins, P. J. (Peter J.)
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Arnold, 2001
- xii, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0340720034
- 0340720042 (paperback)
- Summary:
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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. This book 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.ulation b
- Full contents:
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- Pt. I. Hors D'Oeuvre
- 1. A background to food studies
- Pt. II. The Political Economy of Food
- 2. Introduction
- 3. Food regimes as an organizing concept
- 4. Globalization and food networks
- 5. Transformation of the farm sector
- 6. Food processing and manufacturing
- 7. Food marketing and the consumer
- Pt. III. Global and Geopolitical Food Issues
- 8. Introduction
- 9. Food production and population
- 10. Malnutrition, hunger and famine
- 11. Food surpluses
- 12. Food security
- 13. Food, world trade and geopolitics
- Pt. IV. A Political Ecology of Food
- 14. Introduction
- 15. Food quality
- 16. Food and health
- 17. From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution
- 18. Food ethics, food policies and civil society
- Pt. V. Food Consumption Spaces
- 19. Introduction
- 20. Factors in food consumption
- 21. The origins of taste
- 22. Food habits, beliefs and taboos
- 23. Food, gender and domestic spaces.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Bowler, Ian R
- Copyright:
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