Today's highly industrialized and technologically controlled global food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us, human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost, increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.
| ISBN: | 9781498519977 |
| Publication date: | 12th April 2019 |
| Author: | H Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, Madhudaya Sinha, Nicole Anae, Cori Brewster, Daniel Grinberg, Robert King, Christopher Miles, Salvador Jiménez Murguía |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 228 pages |
| Series: | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Genres: |
Environmental policy and protocols Human geography Society and culture: general |
Today's highly industrialized and technologically controlled global food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us, human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost, increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.
The Ecopolitics of Consumption features in the following genres: Environmental policy and protocols, Human geography, Society and culture: general
The Ecopolitics of Consumption is available in Paperback
The Ecopolitics of Consumption was written by H Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, Madhudaya Sinha, Nicole Anae, Cori Brewster, Daniel Grinberg, Robert King, Christopher Miles, Salvador Jiménez Murguía and published by Lexington Books
The Ecopolitics of Consumption has 228 pages
Yes it is part of Ecocritical Theory and Practice series
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