The Unending Hunger - Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-520-28400-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in women’s experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As women grapple with the pervasive conditions of poverty that hinder efforts at getting enough to eat, they find few options for alleviating the various forms of suffering that accompany food insecurity. Examining how constraints on eating and feeding translate to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders and how “food security” comes to dominate national policy in the United States, this book argues for understanding women’s relations to these processes as inherently biopolitical.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carney, Megan A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. “We Had Nothing to Eat”: The Biopolitics of Food Insecurity
2. Caring Through Food: “La Lucha Diaria”
3. Nourishing Neoliberalism? Narratives of “Sufrimiento”
4. Disciplining Caring Subjects: Food Security as a Biopolitical Project
5. Managing Care: Strategies of Resistance and Healing
Conclusion

Epilogue
Appendix A
Appendix B

Notes
References

Über Autor(innen)

Megan A. Carney is Assistant Professor in the School of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Regional Food Studies at the University of Arizona. Her writing has appeared in The Hill, The Conversation, and Civil Eats.