Eating NAFTA

Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29180-5
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: University of California Press

Mexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same time that Mexicans are eating fewer tortillas and more processed food. Today Mexico is experiencing an epidemic of diet-related chronic illness. The precipitous rise of obesity and diabetes—attributed to changes in the Mexican diet—has resulted in a public health emergency.

In her gripping new book, Alyshia Gálvez exposes how changes in policy following NAFTA have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico—sustenance. Mexicans are faced with a food system that favors food security over subsistence agriculture, development over sustainability, market participation over social welfare, and ideologies of self-care over public health. Trade agreements negotiated to improve lives have resulted in unintended consequences for people’s everyday lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gálvez, Alyshia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface

1. Introduction
2. People of the Corn
3. Laying the Groundwork for NAFTA
4. NAFTA: Free Trade in the Body
5. Deflecting the Blame: Poverty and Personal Responsibility
6. Diabetes: The Disease of the Migrant?
7. Nostalgia, Prestige, and a Party Every Day
8. Conclusion: Connecting the Dots, and Bright Spots

Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alyshia Gálvez is Professor of Food Studies and Anthropology at The New School. She is the author of Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and the Struggle for Citizenship Rights among Mexican Immigrants and Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers: Mexican Women, Public Prenatal Care, and the Birth-weight Paradox.