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Atkins, P. J. (Peter J.)
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641.3 ATK
Publication Date
2001
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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.
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Cooper, Ann.
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641.3 COO
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2000
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Belasco, Warren James.
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641.3009 BEL
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2006
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Morris, Julian.
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615.954 FEA
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1999
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Bello, Walden F.
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338.19 BEL
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2009
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Bello, Walden F.
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338.19 BEL
Publication Date
2009
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The hike in global food prices has pushed hundreds of millions more people into poverty, and sparked riots and protests in the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Walden Bello, the leading writer and activist on the global South, provides a penetrating analysis of the various causes. A passionate, informed and constructive account.
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Roberts, Wayne, 1944-
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338.19 ROB
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2008
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Murcott, Anne, editor.
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641.30072 HAN
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2013
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Steel, Carolyn.
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363.8 STE
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2008
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Mepham, T. B. (Terence Ben)
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178 MEP
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1996
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Counihan, Carole, 1948-
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394.10973 FOO
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2002
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Counihan, Carole, 1948-
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363.85 FOO
Publication Date
2014
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"Across the globe, people are challenging the agro-industrial food system and its exploitation of people and resources, reduction of local food varieties, and negative health consequences. In this collection leading international anthropologists explore food activism across the globe to show how people speak to, negotiate, or cope with power through food. Who are the actors of food activism and what forms of agency do they enact? What kinds of economy, exchanges, and market relations do they practice and promote? How are they organized and what are their scales of political action and power relations? Each chapter explores why and how people choose food as a means of forging social and economic justice, covering diverse forms of food activism from individual acts by consumers or producers to organized social groups or movements. The case studies embrace a wide geographical spectrum including Cuba, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Mexico, Italy, Canada, France, Colombia, Japan, and the USA. This is the first book to examine food activism in diverse local, national, and transnational settings, making it essential reading for students and scholars in anthropology and other fields interested in food, economy, politics and social change"--
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