Fraser Global Foodscapes

Oppression and resistance in the life of food
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-27485-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

What we eat – as well as how it is produced, processed, moved, sold, and used by our bodies seems to matter like never before. Global Foodscapes takes on this topicality and asks readers to think about how we are all involved in the making of an odd and, in many ways, troubling and contested food economy. It explores how food is conceived, traded, grown, reared, processed, sold, and consumed; investigates what goes wrong along the way; and assesses what diverse people around the world are doing to fix these faults.

The text uses a carefully-crafted framework that explores the interaction of five forms of oppression and five means of resistance as they are worked out over five stages in the food economy. It draws on case studies from around the world that illuminate key issues about food in today's world; examines how oppression affects diverse people caught up in the food economy; and highlights how individuals, groups, and institutions such as governments, but also firms, are trying to improve how we interact with the food system.

Global Foodscapes is a highly accessible and useful text for undergraduate students interested in the global food economy. The global range of case studies, examples, and reference points, as well as its original framework allows the text to speak to diverse audiences and generate debate about whether anything – and if so, what – needs to be done about the food system we depend upon so heavily. Additional materials such as suggested readings and discussion points help students consider the issues at hand and conduct initial and more detailed research on today's food economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fraser, Alistair

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One: The world upstream of the farm

Chapter Two: Agricultural foodscapes

Chapter Three: Food processing

Chapter Four: The foodscapes of selling of food

Chapter Five: Food consumption

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alistair Fraser is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland. His research is diverse in nature – cutting across political, economic and cultural geography – and includes journal articles on land reform in South Africa, scale in political practice, and music.