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Food, Power, and Agency Bryant Simon Paperback Book
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- Book Title
- Food, Power, and Agency
- ISBN-13
- 9781350089587
- ISBN
- 9781350089587
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
1350089583
ISBN-13
9781350089587
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7038838257
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Publication Name
Food, Power, and Agency
Language
English
Subject
Nutrition, Sociology / General, General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Anthropology / General
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Cooking, Social Science, Medical
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
How power and agency operate in and through food is the essence of this book, which questions 'good' and 'bad' regarding such varied issues as taste, eating habits, health, and cooks' work. The book exposes the omnipresence of power relations in mundane and special occasions, and makes indispensable reading for interpreting past and present foodways, With startling clarity and impressive breadth, this concise but powerful collection of essays from around the world provides new insights into the subtle way that power and agency operate through the mundane realm of eating, food systems, and norms of dietary health. This is essential reading for anyone interested in food OR power - but its great contribution is to show how those interests must, inevitably, intersect., From the subjugation of workers in a chicken processing plant to the unstable potency of cuisine and identity, Food, Power, and Agency reminds us that food is far from a mundane subject. Framed by an illuminating introduction, the collection demonstrates in fresh detail that food is the ideal medium though which to understand the complexity of agency, the vicissitudes of power, and the significance of symbols., For those interested in exploring the connections between food and power relations, Food, Power and Agency offers an invigorating and rich account., "For those interested in exploring the connections between food and power relations, Food, Power and Agency offers an invigorating and rich account." -- LSE Review of Books "How power and agency operate in and through food is the essence of this book, which questions 'good' and 'bad' regarding such varied issues as taste, eating habits, health, and cooks' work. The book exposes the omnipresence of power relations in mundane and special occasions, and makes indispensable reading for interpreting past and present foodways" -- Peter Scholliers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium "With startling clarity and impressive breadth, this concise but powerful collection of essays from around the world provides new insights into the subtle way that power and agency operate through the mundane realm of eating, food systems, and norms of dietary health. This is essential reading for anyone interested in food OR power - but its great contribution is to show how those interests must, inevitably, intersect." -- Charlotte Biltekoff, UC Davis, USA "From the subjugation of workers in a chicken processing plant to the unstable potency of cuisine and identity, Food, Power, and Agency reminds us that food is far from a mundane subject. Framed by an illuminating introduction, the collection demonstrates in fresh detail that food is the ideal medium though which to understand the complexity of agency, the vicissitudes of power, and the significance of symbols." -- Amy Bentley, New York University, USA
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
641.3
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: Food, Power and Agency Jürgen Martschukat, University of Erfurt, Germany, and Bryant Simon, Temple University, USA Section One: National Characters 1. The Power of Food: Immigrant German Restaurants in San Francisco and the Formation of Ethnic Identities Leonard Schmieding, Georgetown University, USA 2. Italian Cuisine in Japan and the Power of Networking among Cooks Rossella Ceccarini, Independent Anthropologist, Italy, and Keiichi Sawaguchi, Taisho University, Japan Section Two: Anthropological Situations 3. Waiters, Writers, and Power: From Dining Room Commanders to the Emotional Proletariat Christoph Ribbat, Paderborn University, Germany 4. The Geography of Silence: Food and Tragedy in Globalizing America Bryant Simon, Temple University, USA Section Three: Health 5. Making Food Matter: 'Scientific Eating' and the Struggle for Healthy Selves Nina Mackert, Erfurt University, Germany 6. 'What Diet Can Do': Running and Eating Right in 1970s America Jürgen Martschukat, Erfurt University, Germany 7. Being too Big - As 'Objectivation of Deviance' from the Societal Order Eva Barlösius, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany 8. When the Grease Runs Through the Paper: On the Consumption of Ultragreasy Bureks Jernej Mleku z , Slovenian Migration Institute, Slovenia Notes on Contributors Index
Synopsis
Grounded in the work of Roland Barthes, Bruno Latour, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault, this exciting book uses food as a lens to examine agency and the political, economic, social, and cultural power which underlies every choice of food and every act of eating. The book is divided into three parts - National Characters; Anthropological Situations; Health - with each of the eight chapters exploring the power of food as well as the power relationships reflected and refracted through food. Featuring contributions from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and cultural studies scholars from around the world, the book offers case studies of a diverse range -from German cuisine and ethnicity in San Francisco after the Gold Rush, through Italian cuisine in Japan, to 'ultragreasy bureks' and teenage fast food consumption in Slovenia. By directly engaging with questions of agency and power, the book pushes the field of food studies in new directions. An important read for students and researchers in food studies, food history, anthropology of food, and sociology of food.
LC Classification Number
TX357
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