The politics of food / edited by Marianne E. Lien and Brigitte Nerlich.
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TextPublisher: Oxford : Berg, 2004Description: xi, 244 p. ; ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 1859738486 (hbk.) :
- 1859738532 (pbk.) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The politics of food : an introduction -- 2. Handling food-related risks : political agency and governmentality -- 3. Risk, blame and culture : foot and mouth disease and the debate about cheap food -- 4. The rhetoric of food : food as nature, commodity and culture -- 5. Risky science and savoir-faire : peasant expertise in the French debate over genetically modified crops -- 6. Enjoyment and choice in an age of risk : the case of BSE in the Czech Republic -- 7. Western food and the making of the Japanese nation-state -- 8. The politics of taste and smell : Palestinian rites of return -- 9. Grades and standards in the social construction of safe food -- 10. Dogs, whales and kangaroos : transnational activism and food taboos -- 11. The political economy of food in an unequal world -- Prologue : on the legacy of the politics of food.
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