Overview

What is food and why does it matter? Bringing together the most innovative, cutting-edge scholarship and debates, this reader provides an excellent introduction to the rapidly growing discipline of food studies. Covering a wide range of theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches, it challenges common ideas about food and identifies emerging trends which will define the field for years to come. A fantastic resource for both teaching and learning, the book features: - a comprehensive introduction to the text and to each of the four parts, providing a clear, accessible overview and ensuring a coherent thematic focus throughout - 20 articles on topics that are guaranteed to engage student interest, including molecular gastronomy, lab-grown meat and other futurist foods, microbiopolitics, healthism and nutritionism, food safety, ethics, animal welfare, fair trade, and much more - discussion questions and suggestions for further reading which help readers to think further about the issues raised, reinforcing understanding and learning. Edited by Melissa L. Caldwell, one of the leaders in the field, Why Food Matters is the essential textbook for courses in food studies, anthropology of food, sociology, geography, and related subjects.

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Author:   Melissa Caldwell (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9781350011434

ISBN 10:   1350011436
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   25 March 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Editor's Acknowledgments Permissions Introduction: Why Does Food Matter? Part 1: Revaluing Food in a Global Economy Part 1 Introduction 1. Julie Guthman, Willing (White) Workers on Organic Farms? Reflections on Volunteer Farm Labor and the Politics of Precarity 2. Micah Marie Trapp, Grocery Auction Games: Distribution and Value in the Industrialized Food System 3. Sarah Besky, The Labor of Terroir and the Terroir of Labor: Geographical Indication and Darjeeling Tea Plantations 4. Sandra Fahy, Famine Talk 5. David Evans, Blaming the Consumer - Once Again: The Social and Material Contexts of Everyday Food Waste Practices in Some English Households 6. Hanna Garth, Alimentary Dignity: Defining a Decent Meal in Post-Soviet Cuban Household Cooking Part 2: The Power of Food: From Politics to Microbiopolitics Part 2 Introduction 7. Richard Wilk, Power at the Table: Food Fights and Happy Meals 8. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Postsocialist Spores: Disease, Bodies, and the State in the Republic of Georgia 9. Jakob A. Klein, Everyday Approaches to Food Safety in Kunming 10. Melissa L. Caldwell, Digestive Politics in Russia: Feeling the Sensorium beyond the Palate 11. Anne Meneley, Resistance is Fertile! Part 3: New Bodily Realities in a Techno-Science World Part 3 Introduction 12. Emily Contois, 'Lose Like a Man': Gender and the Constraints of Self-Making in Weight Watchers Online 13. Jessica Hardin, Everyday Translation: Health Practitioners' Perspectives on Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Samoa 14. Emilia Sanabria, Sensorial Pedagogies, Hungry Fat Cells and the Limits of Nutritional Health Education 15. Anna Kirkland, The Environmental Account of Obesity: A Case for Feminist Skepticism 16. Aya Hirata Kimura, Who Defines Babies' 'Needs'?: The Scientization of Baby Food in Indonesia Part 4: More than Human, More than Food Part 4 Introduction 17. Chika Watanabe, Waste, Incorporated 18. Anna Tsing, Arts of Inclusion, or How to Love a Mushroom 19. Katy Overstreet, How to Taste Like a Cow: Cultivating Shared Sense in Wisconsin Dairy Worlds 20. Carl DiSalvo, Spectacles and Tropes: Speculative Design and Contemporary Food Cultures Index

Reviews

A dynamite collection that brings together cutting-edge scholarship from leading figures working in food studies and anthropology. * DAVID SUTTON, PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, USA * With an introduction that synthesizes compelling themes connecting anthropology to political economy, science and technology studies, and ontological concerns, this book speaks to a range of scholars in many fields. * BRAD WEISS, PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY, USA * This collection of case studies from across the world offers a provocative unsettling of what we think food is. Why Food Matters takes food studies exactly where it needs to go at a critical inflection point for the field itself. * HARLOTTE BILTEKOFF, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN STUDIES & FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS, USA *

Author Information

Melissa L. Caldwell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Santa Cruz, USA. She was also the sole editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies until 2019.

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