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The Ecopolitics of Consumption
The Food Trade
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2015
Summary
Today’s highly industrialized and technologically controlled global food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us, human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost, increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-1995-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-1996-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
199
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
2 Oodles of Noodles No access Pages 17 - 32
3 Spectacles of Revulsion No access Pages 33 - 56
4 “Pets or Food?” No access Pages 57 - 72
5 “Agvocates” for Industry No access Pages 73 - 88
6 The Politics of Food Behind Bars No access Pages 89 - 100
7 Live Feeds No access Pages 101 - 118
8 What Grows in Silicon Valley? No access Pages 119 - 138
9 Necessity Is the Mother of Invention No access Pages 139 - 158
10 The Political Economy of Food Production No access Pages 159 - 174
11 “He Who Feeds You Will Also Impose His Will on You” No access Pages 175 - 192
