The Ecopolitics of Consumption - The Food Trade (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Release date:	December 2015
Editors:	H Louise Davis • Karyn Pilgrim • Madhudaya Sinha
Contributors:	Nicole Anae • Cori Brewster • Daniel Grinberg • Robert King • Christopher Miles • Salvador Jimenez Murguia • Nancy Smith
Dimensions:	234 x 162 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-1995-3
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4985-1995-4
Barcode:	9781498519953

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