附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Hors d'oeuvre. A background to food studies -- pt. 2. The political economy of food. Introduction -- Food regimes as an organizing concept -- Globalization and food networks -- Transformation of the farm sector -- Food processing and manufacturing -- Food marketing and the consumer -- pt. 3. Global and geopolitical food issues. Introduction -- Food production and population -- Malnutrition, hunger, and famine -- Food surpluses -- Food security -- Food, world trade, and geopolitics -- pt. 4. A political ecology of food. Introduction -- Food quality -- Food and health -- From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution -- Food ethics, food policies, and civil society -- pt. 5. Food consumption spaces. Introduction -- Factors in food consumption -- The origins of taste -- Food habits, beliefs, and taboos -- Food, gender, and domestic spaces -- pt. 6. Conclusion.
摘要:Who can deny the significance of food? It has a central role in our health and pleasure as well as in our economy, politics and culture. This book provides a social science perspective on food systems and demonstrates the rich variety of disciplinary and theoretical contexts of food studies. While hunger and malnutrition remain a reality in many countries, for some food has become an experience rather than a sustenance. This book addresses the different worldwide understandings of food through thematic chapters and a wide range of material including: description of the political economy of the food chain, from production to the point of sale; analysis of global issues of supply and demand; critical debate of environmental and health aspects of food, including GM food, the role of habits, taboos, age and gender in food consumption. Each chapter contains a guide to further reading and to websites of relevance to food. Extensively illustrated, this book is essential reading for students of food studies in the social sciences and humanities.ulation b.
