The politics of food /
The politics of food /
edited by Marianne E. Lien and Brigitte Nerlich.
- xi, 244 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The politics of food : an introduction -- Handling food-related risks : political agency and governmentality -- Risk, blame and culture : foot and mouth disease and the debate about cheap food -- The rhetoric of food : food as nature, commodity and culture -- Risky science and savoir-faire : peasant expertise in the French debate over genetically modified crops -- Enjoyment and choice in an age of risk : the case of BSE in the Czech Republic -- Western food and the making of the Japanese nation-state -- The politics of taste and smell : Palestinian rites of return -- Grades and standards in the social construction of safe food -- Dogs, whales and kangaroos : transnational activism and food taboos -- The political economy of food in an unequal world -- Prologue : on the legacy of the politics of food. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
1859738486 (hbk.) : £50.00 1859738532 (pbk.) : £15.99
GBA450837 bnb
Nutrition policy.
363.192
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The politics of food : an introduction -- Handling food-related risks : political agency and governmentality -- Risk, blame and culture : foot and mouth disease and the debate about cheap food -- The rhetoric of food : food as nature, commodity and culture -- Risky science and savoir-faire : peasant expertise in the French debate over genetically modified crops -- Enjoyment and choice in an age of risk : the case of BSE in the Czech Republic -- Western food and the making of the Japanese nation-state -- The politics of taste and smell : Palestinian rites of return -- Grades and standards in the social construction of safe food -- Dogs, whales and kangaroos : transnational activism and food taboos -- The political economy of food in an unequal world -- Prologue : on the legacy of the politics of food. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
1859738486 (hbk.) : £50.00 1859738532 (pbk.) : £15.99
GBA450837 bnb
Nutrition policy.
363.192