Food and Place

A Critical Exploration

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Fernando J. Bosco

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798881852283
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Agricultural Public Policy
• Index: Social Sciences

This text provides a comprehensive and critical exploration of food from the unique perspective of place. It shows that our experiences with food are deeply influenced by their cultural, social, economic, and political contexts. The authors explore a wide range of questions such as: Do GMOs threaten rural livelihoods? Why don't we eat dogs? Does your neighborhood make you fat? Do community gardens encourage urban gentrification? Can cheese save a local economy? Why are gourmet burgers appearing on menus all over the world? How do immigrants use food to create a sense of place? Does mainstream nutrition stigmatize bodies? Is the kitchen an oppressive place? Can celebrity chefs change the food system? Critically engaged and connected to current activist and academic debates, Food and Place will be an essential resource for students across the social sciences.

Table of contents

• Brief Contents
• Contents
• Textboxes and Figures
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1. Food and Place: AN INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 2. A Place Perspective on Food: KEY CONCEPTS AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
• PART I. FOOD REGIMES
• CHAPTER 3. Networks of Global Production and Resistance: MEAT, DAIRY, AND PLACE
• CHAPTER 4. Genetically Modified Crops and the Remaking of Latin America’s Food Landscape
• CHAPTER 5. Farm Labor, Immigration, and Race
• CHAPTER 6. Ethical Food and Global Commodity Chains
• CHAPTER 7. Global Hunger: POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND VULNERABILITY
• PART II. FOODSCAPES
• CHAPTER 8. Food and Gentrification: HOW FOODIES ARE TRANSFORMING URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS
• CHAPTER 9. Can Place Cause Obesity? A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE FOOD ENVIRONMENT
• CHAPTER 10. Food Banks and the Devolution of Anti-Hunger Policy
• CHAPTER 11. Spaces of Alternative Food: URBAN AGRICULTURE, COMMUNITY GARDENS, AND FARMERS’ MARKETS
• PART III. BODIES
• CHAPTER 12. Food, Ethnicity, and Place: PRODUCING IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE
• CHAPTER 13. Critical Nutrition: CRITICAL AND FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON BODILY NOURISHMENT
• CHAPTER 14. Food, Biopower, and the Child’s Body as a Scale of Intervention
• CHAPTER 15. Cooking at Home: GENDER, CLASS, RACE, AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 16. Chefs: CELEBRITIES, EXPERTS, OR ADVOCATES?
• Glossary
• Index
• About the Contributors