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Anxious Appetites - Food and Consumer Culture (Hardcover)
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Anxious Appetites - Food and Consumer Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics
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Despite government claims that food is safer and more readily
available today than ever before, recent survey evidence
demonstrates high levels of food-related anxiety among Western
consumers. While chronic hunger and malnutrition are relatively
rare in the West, food scares relating to individual products,
concerns about global food security and other expressions of
consumer anxiety about food remain widespread. Anxious Appetites
explores the causes of these present-day anxieties. Looking at
fears over provenance and regulation in a world of lengthening
supply chains and greater concentration of corporate power, Peter
Jackson investigates how anxieties about food circulate and how
they act as a channel for broader social issues. Drawing on case
studies such as the 2013 horsemeat scandal and fears about the
contamination of infant formula in China in 2008, he examines how
and why these concerns emerge. Comparing survey results with
ethnographic observation of consumer practice, he explores the gap
between official advice about food safety and people's everyday
experience of food, including a critique of ideological notions of
'consumer choice'. A captivating, timely book which presents a new
theory of social anxiety.
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