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Author: Geoffrey Craig ,
Wendy Parkins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Berg Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.426kg
ISBN: 9781845201593
ISBN 10: 1845201590
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 February 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'Highly original, exciting and timely, 'Slow Living' really brings to the fore current academic and popular debates about postmaterialism and new traditionalism. In thinking through food, lifestyle and politics, it brings a unique contribution to the literature about globalization -- there is certainly no other book like it' Dr. David Bell, Sociology Department, Manchester Metropolitan University 'Slow Living examines the international Slow Food Movement from a cultural studies perspective as a case study of a broad socio-political practice aimed at a more deliberate, sustainable and pleasurable existence. It is a cutting-edge book that raises important questions about modern social movements and globalization' Carole Counihan, Professor of Anthropology, Millersville University and author of Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence 'An intelligent analysis of the stresses of contemporary society' Saturday Guardian 'Slow food can be read as part of a wider phenomenon ... involving a new culture of taste: a taste for genuine food and a taste for life involving much more than just food-tasting.' The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Vol 14, No 2, June 2008 'This analysis of 'slow living' is the first book-length study of the now international Slow Food movement.' Anthropological Notebooks, No 2, 2007
'Highly original, exciting and timely, 'Slow Living' really brings to the fore current academic and popular debates about postmaterialism and new traditionalism. In thinking through food, lifestyle and politics, it brings a unique contribution to the literature about globalization -- there is certainly no other book like it' Dr. David Bell, Sociology Department, Manchester Metropolitan University 'Slow Living examines the international Slow Food Movement from a cultural studies perspective as a case study of a broad socio-political practice aimed at a more deliberate, sustainable and pleasurable existence. It is a cutting-edge book that raises important questions about modern social movements and globalization' Carole Counihan, Professor of Anthropology, Millersville University and author of Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family and Gender in Twentieth Century Florence 'An intelligent analysis of the stresses of contemporary society' Saturday Guardian 'Slow food can be read
Author Information
Wendy Parkins is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the editor of Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship. Geoffrey Craig is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author of The Media, Politics and Public Life.
