Cultural studies: food and society Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Feeding the World Well
Book SynopsisLeading experts reveal ways that the future of food production for the world's burgeoning population can (and must) be both sustainable and ethical. In the United States, food is abundant and cheap but loaded with hidden costs to the environment, human health, animal welfare, and the people who work in our food systems. The country's current food production systems lack diversity in crops and animals and are intensified but not sustainable, inhumane in the treatment of animals, and inconsiderate of labor. In order to feed the world's rapidly growing population with high-quality, ethically produced food, new food production systems are urgently needed. These new systems must be genetically diverse and environmentally sustainable, and they need to follow internationally recognized animal welfare and labor practices. Feeding the World Well examines these costs of cheap food while presenting a unique framework for ethical food systems: the Core Ethical Commitments, which are designed tTable of ContentsList of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Alan M. GoldbergPart I. The Big Picture1. Feeding the World (Well): The Moral ImperativeJessica Fanzo2. Malnutrition, Food Systems, and Climate ActionMartin W. BloemPart II. Food Systems in Context3. The Agriculture We DeserveEllen K. Silbergeld4. The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production in America: Lessons LearnedRobert Martin5. Agriculture in TransitionFrederick L. Kirschenmann6. Agricultural Exceptionalism and the US Regulatory Landscape Susan A. Schneider and Meredith Kaufman7. US Oversight of GM CropsJennifer Kuzma8. Conflicts of Interest in Food and Nutrition ResearchMarion Nestle9. Global Food Demand Projections: A ReviewMichiel van Dijk, Yashar Saghai, Marie Luise Rau, and Tom MorleyPart III. Contemporary Challenges and Complexities in Food Ethics Part III.A. Environment10. Food, Environment, and EthicsTara Garnett11. Water Utilization and FoodKees van Leeuwen12. The Impact and Opportunity of Wasted FoodJonathan Bloom13. Climate Change and Food Production: Big Worries, Uncertain ImpactsEvan FraserPart III.B. Producers and Laborers14. Primary Agricultural Production: Crops and FarmersPaul B. Thompson15. Ethics over Exploitation: Urgent Moral Issues Associated with Labor and Communities in the Food SystemNicole M. Civita16. Equitable Food InitiativePeter O'DriscollPart III.C. Public Health17. How Food Systems Support and Undermine Public Health, Nutrition, and Community Well-Being: Some Ethical Concerns and ControversiesAnne Barnhill18. Food SafetyHerman B. W. M. Koëter19. Antibiotic ResistanceLance B. Price20. Farm Animal Welfare and Human HealthAlan M. GoldbergPart III.D. Animal Welfare21. Animal WelfareBernard Rollin22. Biotechnology and Animal Well-BeingKevin Esvelt23. Certified HumaneAdele DouglassPart IV. Case Studies 24. Niman RanchPaul Willis25. Menus of ChangeAnne E. McBride26. Bon Appétit Management CompanyMaisie Ganzler27. WegmansGillian Kelleher28. US FoodsSylvia Wulf29. Water Recirculating Aquaculture Systems and the Future for Land-Based, Closed-Containment Salmon ProductionChristopher GoodPart V. The Core Ethical Commitments: A Framework for Ethical Food Systems30. The Ethical Basis for Choose FoodAnne Barnhill, Nicole M. Civita, and Ruth Faden31. The Core Ethical CommitmentsAnne Barnhill, Nicole M. Civita, Claire Davis, Shauna Downs, Ruth Faden, Sara Glass, Alan M. Goldberg, Herman B. W. M. Koëter, Bernard Rollin, Paul B. Thompson, Kees van Leeuwen, and Suzanne McMillanndex
£47.18
Johns Hopkins University Press Industrial Farm Animal Production the Environment
Book SynopsisEssential essays on the environmental impacts of factory farms on public health.The rapidand relatively recentconcentration of food animal production into factory farms makes meat plentiful and cheap, but this type of agriculture comes at a great cost to human health and the environment. In Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health, editors James Merchant and Robert Martin bring together public health experts to explore the most critical topics related to industrial farm animal production.The environmental impacts of these concentrated animal-feeding operations endanger the health of farm and meatpacking workers, neighbors, and surrounding communities. Factory farms create public health hazards such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to the overuse of antibiotics in livestock, as well as water polluted with nitrates, microbes, and other harmful chemicals. Despite the clear need for greater worker protection and oversight to m
£33.75
Temple University Press,U.S. Upsetting Food
Book SynopsisCompares U.S. food reform campaigns through historical social movements--each driven by capitalism, but shaped by activism
£77.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Upsetting Food
Book SynopsisCompares U.S. food reform campaigns through historical social movements--each driven by capitalism, but shaped by activism
£25.19
Bristol University Press Hungry Britain
Book SynopsisDrawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest Food Banks, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity.Trade Review“Lambie-Mumford argues effectively for the state to recognise and protect the fundamental right to food and draws attention to areas in which a charitable response, while allowing an avenue through which to enact values of care, proves insufficient. It can be recommended to readers with the additional hope that it spurs further discussion about the implications of foodbanks in the wider welfare mix.” Voluntary Sector Review“This is a benchmark study of hunger, charity and human rights, exposing UK government neglect. Ethical, critical, and constructive, it is essential reading for those concerned about breadline Britain.” Graham Riches, University of British Columbia“Thorough and thought-provoking, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the many dimensions of charitable food provisioning in the UK.” Rachel Loopstra, King’s College London“This is a benchmark study of hunger, charity and human rights, exposing UK government neglect. Ethical, critical, and constructive, it is essential reading for those concerned about breadline Britain.” Graham Riches, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Hunger and charitable emergency food provision in the UK and beyond; Theories of the food insecurity ‘problem’ and the right to food ‘solution’; Food charity: the ‘other’ food system; The sustainability of food charity; Food charity as caring; Food charity and the changing welfare state; Conclusion.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Hungry Britain
Book SynopsisDrawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest Food Banks, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity.Trade Review“Lambie-Mumford argues effectively for the state to recognise and protect the fundamental right to food and draws attention to areas in which a charitable response, while allowing an avenue through which to enact values of care, proves insufficient. It can be recommended to readers with the additional hope that it spurs further discussion about the implications of foodbanks in the wider welfare mix.” Voluntary Sector Review“This is a benchmark study of hunger, charity and human rights, exposing UK government neglect. Ethical, critical, and constructive, it is essential reading for those concerned about breadline Britain.” Graham Riches, University of British Columbia“Thorough and thought-provoking, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the many dimensions of charitable food provisioning in the UK.” Rachel Loopstra, King’s College London“This is a benchmark study of hunger, charity and human rights, exposing UK government neglect. Ethical, critical, and constructive, it is essential reading for those concerned about breadline Britain.” Graham Riches, University of British ColumbiaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Hunger and charitable emergency food provision in the UK and beyond; Theories of the food insecurity ‘problem’ and the right to food ‘solution’; Food charity: the ‘other’ food system; The sustainability of food charity; Food charity as caring; Food charity and the changing welfare state; Conclusion.
£26.59
Bristol University Press A Handbook of Food Crime
Book SynopsisGray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food crime. Through discussions of food safety, food fraud, food insecurity, agricultural labour, livestock welfare, genetically modified foods, food sustainability, food waste, food policy, and food democracy, they problematize current food systems and criticize their underlying ideologies.Trade Review"An excellent wide-ranging contribution to the field of criminology and green criminology in particular." Tanya Wyatt, University of NorthumbriaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Section I: Thinking about food crime; A food crime perspective ~ Allison Gray; Food crime without criminals: Agri-good-safety governance as a protection racket for dominant political and economic interest ~ Martha McMahon, Kora Liegh Glatt; The social construction of illegality within local food systems ~ Marcello de Rosa, Ferro Trabalzi, Tiziana Pagnani; Section II: Farming and food production; Ethical challenges facing farm managers ~ Harvey S. James Jr.; Chocolate, slavery, forced labour, child labour, and the state ~ Ronald Hinch; Impact of hazards and pesticides on farmers and farming communities ~ Jinky Leilanie del Prado-Lu; Section III: Processing, marketing, and accessing food; Agency and responsibility: The case of the food industry and obesity ~ Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Robert Phillips; The value of product sampling in mitigating food adulteration ~ Louise Manning, Jan Mei Soon; Prohibitive property practices: The impact of restrictive covenants on the built food environment ~ Sugandi del Canto, Rachel Engler-Stringer; Section IV: Corporate food and food safety; Regulating food fraud: Public and private law responses in the EU, Italy and the Netherlands ~ Antonia Corini, Bernd van der Meulen; Mass salmonella poisoning by the Peanut Corporation of America: Lessons in state-corporate food crime ~ Paul Leighton; Food crime in the context of cheap capitalism ~ Joseph Yaw Asomah, Hongming Cheng; Section V: Food trade and movement; Crime versus harm in the transportation of animals: A closer look at Ontario’s ‘pig trial’ ~ Amy Fitzgerald, Wesley Tourangeau; Coming together to combat food fraud: Regulatory networks in the EU ~ Richard Hyde, Ashley Savage; Fair trade laws, labels, and ethics ~ Will Low, Eileen Davenport; Section VI: Technologies and food; Food, genetics and knowledge politics ~ Reece Walters; Technology, novel foods and crime ~ Juanjuan Sun, Xiaocen Liu; Food crimes, harms, and carnist technologies ~ Linnea Laestadius, Jan Deckers, Stephanie Baran; Section VII: Green food; Farming and climate change ~ Rob White, Jasmine Yeates; Food waste (non)regulation ~ Michael A. Long, Michael J. Lynch; Responding to neoliberal diets: School meal programs in Brazil and Canada ~ Estevan Leopoldo de Freitas Coca, Ricardo César Barbosa Júnior; Section VIII: Questioning and consuming food; Counter crimes and food democracy: Suspects and citizens remaking the food system ~ Sue Booth, John Coveney, Dominique Paturel; Consumer reactions to food safety scandals: A research model and moderating effects ~ Camilla Barbarossa; Resisting food crime and the problem of the ‘food police’ ~ Allison Gray.
£86.39
Bristol University Press The Rise of Food Charity in Europe
Book SynopsisAs the demand for food banks and other emergency food charities continues to rise across the continent, this is the first systematic Europe-wide study of the roots and consequences of this urgent phenomenon.Trade Review“This fascinating and first collection of qualitative cross-case study of the rise of food charity across Europe importantly highlights the link between changes to social rights and entitlements and increased emphasis on non-state providers of food charity. It uses food charity as a lens through which we can learn how wider policy shifts impact on poverty in Europe. A masterpiece in food charity studies, it vigorously argues for embedding this research within the overall context of poverty. Constructive discussions and proposition in terminology and concepts advance this field of poverty studies. A seminal collection forcefully advancing food poverty studies.” Helmut P. Gaisbauer, University of SalzburgTable of ContentsForeword: The Rise of Food Charity in Europe ~ Graham Riches Introduction: Exploring the Growth of Food Charity across Europe ~ Hannah Lambie-Mumford, and Tiina Silvasti New Frames for Food Charity in Finland ~ Tiina Silvasti and Ville Tikka Social Exclusion and Food Assistance in Germany ~ Fabian Kessl, Stephan Lorenz and Holger Schoneville The Role of Food Charity in Italy ~ Sabrina Arcuri, Gianluca Brunori and Francesca Galli Food Banks in the Netherlands Stepping up to the Plate: Shifting Moral and Practical Responsibilities ~ Hilje van der Horst, Leon Pijnenburg and Amy Markus Redistributing Waste Food to Reduce Poverty in Slovenia ~ Vesna Leskošek and Romana Zidar Food Aid in Post-crisis Spain: A Test for this Welfare State Model ~ Amaia Inza-Bartolomé and Leire Escajedo San-Epifanio Food Banks and the UK Welfare State ~ Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Rachel Loopstra Conclusion: Food Charity in Europe ~ Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti
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Bristol University Press The Rise of Food Charity in Europe
Book SynopsisAs the demand for food banks and other emergency food charities continues to rise across the continent, this is the first systematic Europe-wide study of the roots and consequences of this urgent phenomenon.Table of ContentsForeword: The Rise of Food Charity in Europe ~ Graham Riches Introduction: Exploring the growth of food charity across Europe ~ Hannah Lambie-Mumford, and Tiina Silvasti New frames for food charity in Finland ~ Tiina Silvasti and Ville Tikka Social exclusion and food assistance in Germany ~ Fabian Kessl, Stephan Lorenz and Holger Schoneville The role of food charity in Italy ~ Sabrina Arcuri, Gianluca Brunori and Francesca Galli Food banks in the Netherlands stepping up to the plate: Shifting moral and practical responsibilities ~ Hilje van der Horst, Leon Pijnenburg and Amy Markus Redistributing waste food to reduce poverty in Slovenia ~ Vesna Leskošek and Romana Zidar Food aid in post-crisis Spain: a test for this welfare state model ~ Amaia Inza-Bartolomé and Leire Escajedo San-Epifanio Food banks and the UK welfare state ~ Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Rachel Loopstra Conclusion: food charity in Europe ~ Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Tiina Silvasti
£25.64
Policy Press A Handbook of Food Crime
Book SynopsisGray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food crime. Through discussions of food safety, food fraud, food insecurity, agricultural labour, livestock welfare, genetically modified foods, food sustainability, food waste, food policy, and food democracy, they problematize current food systems and criticize their underlying ideologies.Trade Review"An excellent wide-ranging contribution to the field of criminology and green criminology in particular." Tanya Wyatt, University of NorthumbriaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Section I: Thinking about food crime; A food crime perspective ~ Allison Gray; Food crime without criminals: Agri-good-safety governance as a protection racket for dominant political and economic interest ~ Martha McMahon, Kora Liegh Glatt; The social construction of illegality within local food systems ~ Marcello de Rosa, Ferro Trabalzi, Tiziana Pagnani; Section II: Farming and food production; Ethical challenges facing farm managers ~ Harvey S. James Jr.; Chocolate, slavery, forced labour, child labour, and the state ~ Ronald Hinch; Impact of hazards and pesticides on farmers and farming communities ~ Jinky Leilanie del Prado-Lu; Section III: Processing, marketing, and accessing food; Agency and responsibility: The case of the food industry and obesity ~ Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Robert Phillips; The value of product sampling in mitigating food adulteration ~ Louise Manning, Jan Mei Soon; Prohibitive property practices: The impact of restrictive covenants on the built food environment ~ Sugandi del Canto, Rachel Engler-Stringer; Section IV: Corporate food and food safety; Regulating food fraud: Public and private law responses in the EU, Italy and the Netherlands ~ Antonia Corini, Bernd van der Meulen; Mass salmonella poisoning by the Peanut Corporation of America: Lessons in state-corporate food crime ~ Paul Leighton; Food crime in the context of cheap capitalism ~ Joseph Yaw Asomah, Hongming Cheng; Section V: Food trade and movement; Crime versus harm in the transportation of animals: A closer look at Ontario’s ‘pig trial’ ~ Amy Fitzgerald, Wesley Tourangeau; Coming together to combat food fraud: Regulatory networks in the EU ~ Richard Hyde, Ashley Savage; Fair trade laws, labels, and ethics ~ Will Low, Eileen Davenport; Section VI: Technologies and food; Food, genetics and knowledge politics ~ Reece Walters; Technology, novel foods and crime ~ Juanjuan Sun, Xiaocen Liu; Food crimes, harms, and carnist technologies ~ Linnea Laestadius, Jan Deckers, Stephanie Baran; Section VII: Green food; Farming and climate change ~ Rob White, Jasmine Yeates; Food waste (non)regulation ~ Michael A. Long, Michael J. Lynch; Responding to neoliberal diets: School meal programs in Brazil and Canada ~ Estevan Leopoldo de Freitas Coca, Ricardo César Barbosa Júnior; Section VIII: Questioning and consuming food; Counter crimes and food democracy: Suspects and citizens remaking the food system ~ Sue Booth, John Coveney, Dominique Paturel; Consumer reactions to food safety scandals: A research model and moderating effects ~ Camilla Barbarossa; Resisting food crime and the problem of the ‘food police’ ~ Allison Gray.
£27.54
Bristol University Press Hunger Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal
Book SynopsisExploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional debates. It challenges neoliberal governmentality and shows how food charity maintains inequalities of class, race, religion and gender.Table of ContentsForeword - Kate Pickett 1. Introduction 2. Revising perspectives on neoliberalism, hunger and food insecurity 3. Food aid and neoliberalism: an alliance built on shared interests? 4. Soup and salvation: realising religion through contemporary food charity 5. Whiteness, racism and colourblindness in UK food aid 6. Lived neoliberalism: food, poverty and power 7.Racial inequality or mutual aid? Food and poverty among Pakistani British and White British women 8. Seeds beneath the snow
£76.00
The University of North Carolina Press The Edible South The Power of Food and the
Book SynopsisPresents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Marcie Cohen Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies and minds, livelihoods, lands, and citizenship.
£23.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Black Food Geographies Race SelfReliance and
Book SynopsisExamines the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents' navigation of and resistance to unequal food distribution systems. Linking these local food issues to the national problem of systemic racism, Reese tracks the ways transnational food corporations have shaped food availability.
£21.56
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Alcohol A History
Book SynopsisAlcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In this book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects of social, political, and religious anxiety.Trade ReviewAn ambitious book, which succeeds at least in part because of Phillips's elegant style and his nose for recurring themes."" - Times Literary Supplement""A major achievement. . . . Provides an essential introduction to the social, cultural, and economic role of alcohol in human history."" - Canadian Journal of History""An enthralling piece of research that considers the history of alcohol from the ancient world right through to trends in modern regulation and consumption."" - Jancis Robinson, wine expert and editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine""A must read for alcohol studies scholars."" - CHOICE
£28.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Agrotopias An American Literary History of Sustainability
Book SynopsisShowing how ideas about race and reproduction were central to early sustainability thinking, Abby Goode unearths an alternative environmental archive that ranges from gothic novels to Black nationalist manifestos, from Waco, Texas, to the West Indies, from city tenements to White House kitchen gardens.
£73.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Agrotopias An American Literary History of
Book SynopsisShowing how ideas about race and reproduction were central to early sustainability thinking, Abby Goode unearths an alternative environmental archive that ranges from gothic novels to Black nationalist manifestos, from Waco, Texas, to the West Indies, from city tenements to White House kitchen gardens.
£27.96
The University of North Carolina Press Wild Tamed Lost Revived The Surprising Story of
Book SynopsisFor anyone who’s ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation.Trade ReviewFlynt is sharing her knowledge in the definitive Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived . . . The book is part history, part botanical reference, and part memoir, chronicling the cidermaker's own journey and experiences in the orchard."—Garden & Gun
£27.96
University of Texas Press Pink Gold
Book SynopsisA rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Amber Sunsets and Pink Gold Chapter 1. Contested Grounds: Women Shrimp Traders and Street Economies Chapter 2. On Becoming Changueras: Gendered Livelihoods and Contested Identities Chapter 3. The Street of the Women Shrimp Traders: Learning the Tricks of the Trade in Space and Place Chapter 4. Here We Are Like a Family: The Complexity of Social Relations Chapter 5. The Culture and Economy of Pink Gold: The Meanings, Processes, and Values of Shrimp Chapter 6. Sometimes We Work Just to Pay Our Debts: Informal Credit and Savings Systems Chapter 7. From Outcasts to Icons: Women Shrimp Traders and Expressive Culture Conclusion: Feminist Political Ecology, Ethnography, and Uncovering Lived Realities References Index
£73.95
Duke University Press Porkopolis
Book SynopsisAlex Blanchette explores how the daily lives of a Midwestern town that is home to a massive pork complex were reorganized around the life and death cycles of pigs while using the factory farm as a way to detail the state of contemporary American industrial capitalism.Trade Review“Porkopolis is a rigorous and insightful ethnography of food production that connects the politics of labor to ambitious theorizations of political economy and biopolitical governance. Beautifully written and highly accessible, Porkopolis is a field-defining work in animal studies, the anthropology of labor, and food studies. An outstanding book.” -- Gabriel N. Rosenberg, author of * The 4-H Harvest: Sexuality and the State in Rural America *“In Porkopolis, the industrial pig is not just vertically integrated; it is pervasive, conditioning hog and human bodies and saturating workers' social lives and living spaces. Exquisitely researched and indelibly written, Alex Blanchette's arresting ethnography challenges us to see industrial meat as a new biopolitical regime, the next chapter in capitalism's quest to dominate nature by standardizing life.” -- Heather Paxson, author of * The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America *“As a human-animal researcher, I found this book exciting in its examination of how labor and class shapes human nonhuman entanglement in the industrial setting, and the novel employment of multispecies sensibilities to offer an alternative perspective on the factory farm. Porkopolis might also be read as a twenty-first century world-making process of domestication, radically co-shaping environments, pigs, humans, and other species in the process.” -- Paul G. Keil * Anthropology Book Forum *"What is remarkable about Porkopolis is that Blanchette never makes the predictable point but instead uses his thorough ethnography to question many of the taken-for-granted assumptions both popular media and the scholarly literature have made about factory farms. In the process, he has generated the beginning steps toward a new approach toward understanding the relations between industrial forms of capitalism and nature." -- Ilana Gershon * Current Anthropology *"The clarity and analytical power of Porkopolis are impressive achievements. . . . It is not surprising to learn that Blanchette’s peers consider him one of the finest ethnographers of his generation. The book is crafted with a perspicacity and empathy reminiscent of Munro’s short stories." -- Troy Vettese * Boston Review *"An even-handed exploration of an issue usually dominated by extremes. . . . That said, even Blanchette’s moral generosity and even-handed treatment of the pork industry cannot powder and perfume the everyday horrors contained within. . . . Blanchette may not have set out to write an argument for de-industrializing pigs, but he achieved it." -- Jennifer Graham * The Hippo *"The book obliges the thoughtful reader to ponder how this remarkable departure from normal biological life could ever have come about—all for the sake of cheap meat and profit—and what we might need to do (if ever we could) about changing it. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." -- J. A. Mather * Choice *“Porkopolis is very well written, powerful, and provocative and is an exceptionally insightful look at industrial capitalism through the lens of human–animal relations. It offers a truly unique perspective into the world that industrial farming has made and remade.” -- Steve Striffler * American Anthropologist *“Porkopolis is a triumph. It is exceptionally readable and engaging in spite of the gravity of its subject matter. It is also creative and challenging in the most haunting and curious ways.” -- Claire Bunschoten * Social Text *“Blanchette’s ethnography ... demonstrates the ways in which the modern pork industry has reshaped the rural American workforce as well as economic and social relationships.... Porkopolis is a masterful piece of multi-sited research.” -- Jon Wolseth * American Ethnologist *“Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis is an incredible ethnographic achievement.... The book’s commitment to an ambitious theoretical project, its inviting prose that balances precision and readability, and its sharply described ethnographic insights all work flawlessly.” -- Andrea Rissing and Nicholas C. Kawa * Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment *“There are many angles from which to approach Alex Blanchette’s sweeping, paradigm defining and redefining, and prescient ethnography.... Porkopolis will assuredly become essential reading in many areas of anthropology.” -- Carolyn Barnes and Peter Benson * Anthropological Quarterly *"The pig’s body is shaped by the market and the prices of its various parts. But more shockingly, as Blanchette argues, much the same is true of the bodies of the workers sucked into the maw of this gigantic meat machine. It would be hard to find a more compelling critique of contemporary capitalist exploitation of what was once part of the natural world." -- John Dupré * Los Angeles Review of Books *“Porkopolis provides a substantial and nuanced explanation of industrialized pork production that calls into question the collective societal energy invested into life-forms best suited for capitalist extraction. . . . Blanchette makes numerous contributions to sociology, anthropology, and more-than-human geographies.” -- Michaela Hoffelmeyer * Agriculture and Human Values *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Preface. Watching Hogs Watch Workers xiii A Note on Photography xvii Introduction. The "Factory" Farm 1 Part I. Boar 1. The Dover Flies 33 2. The Herd: Intimate Biosecurity and Posthuman Labor 45 Part II. Sow 3. Somos Puercos 73 4. Stimulation: Instincts in Production 89 Part III. Hog 5. Lutalyse 121 6. Stockperson: Love, Muscles, and the Industrial Runt 137 Part IV. Carcass 7. Miss Wicked 167 8. Biological System: Breaking in at the End of Industrial Time 177 Part V. Viscera 9. Maybe Some Blood, but Mostly Grease 203 10. Lifecycle: On Using All of the Porcine Species 211 Epilogue. The (De-)Industrialization of the World 239 Notes 247 References 265 Index 287
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Duke University Press Meat
Book SynopsisWhat is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can “bloody” vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk be categorized as meat? In pursuing these questions, the contributors to Meat! trace the shifting boundaries of the meanings of meat across time, geography, and cultures. In studies of chicken, fish, milk, barbecue, fake meat, animal sacrifice, cannibalism, exotic meat, frozen meat, and other manifestations of meat, they highlight meat''s entanglements with race, gender, sexuality, and disability. From the imperial politics embedded in labeling canned white tuna as “the chicken of the sea” to the relationship between beef bans, yoga, and bodily purity in Hindu nationalist politics, the contributors demonstrate how meat is an ideal vantage point from which to better understand transnational circuits of power and ideology as well as the histories of colonialism, ableism, and sexism. Contributors. Trade Review“Meat is power, meat is politics. By expanding the definitional terrain of the word, the authors in this collection also reimagine the scope of food and animal studies and provide much-needed connective tissue (pun not intended) for future work in the field. This book is a game changer. Period.” -- Sharon Patricia Holland, author of * The Erotic Life of Racism *“A new and provocative engagement with the material and symbolic dimensions of meat within a transnational frame, this collection exfoliates meat's various layers, not to uncover an essential truth, but to examine meat as a dynamic, multiple, and unstable category. It is less about what meat is than it is about what meat does. It is precisely this dimension that renders Meat! an important scholarly advance in cultural studies, food studies, and gender, women, queer, and feminist studies.” -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, coeditor of * Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader *"In provocative and playful essays, diverse authors draw on established experts in such fields as colonial and postcolonial studies, transnational analysis, feminist science studies, queer theory, critical race theory, animal rights studies, and disability studies. . . . Most essays cross boundaries, too, in subject matter, disciplinary orientation, and methodology (such as moving from discursive to practical analysis), requiring proficiency with context-switching, making this both a challenging and rewarding read. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." -- S. M. Weiss * Choice *“Few books assemble critical writings from a transnational, intersectional, and postcolonial perspective. Meat! fills this gap.... Feminist scholars will no doubt find this edited volume useful and interesting.” -- Élisabeth Abergel * Atlantis *“The uniqueness of Meat! resides in reuniting scholars, many of them working on regions outside the Euro-Western world, in order to provocatively push the boundaries of what ethical practices and lives entail.” -- Valeria Meiller * ISLE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. How to Think with Meat / Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam 1 1. When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements / Elspeth Probyn 17 2. Eating the Mother / Irina Aristarkhova 39 3. Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic / Jennifer A. Hamilton 61 4. Beefing Yoga: Meat, Corporeality, and Politics / Sushmita Chatterjee 96 5. Eating after Chernobyl: Slow Violence and Reindeer Consumption in the Postnuclear Age / Anita Mannur 121 6. Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbeque to Xenotransplantation / Kim Q. Hall 139 7. On Being Meat: Three Parables on Sacrifice and Violence / Parama Roy 162 8. "I Hide in Plain Sight": Food and Black Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad / Psyche Williams-Forson 194 9. On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal / Neel Ahuja 213 10. Fake Meat: A Queer Commentary / Angela Willey 241 11. The Ethical Impurative: Elemental Frontiers of Technologized Meat / Banu Subramaniam 254 12. Fire and Ash / Mel Y. Chen 279 About the Contributors 293 Index 293
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Duke University Press Meat
Book SynopsisWhat is meat? Is it simply food to consume, or a metaphor for our own bodies? Can “bloody” vegan burgers, petri dish beef, live animals, or human milk be categorized as meat? In pursuing these questions, the contributors to Meat! trace the shifting boundaries of the meanings of meat across time, geography, and cultures. In studies of chicken, fish, milk, barbecue, fake meat, animal sacrifice, cannibalism, exotic meat, frozen meat, and other manifestations of meat, they highlight meat''s entanglements with race, gender, sexuality, and disability. From the imperial politics embedded in labeling canned white tuna as “the chicken of the sea” to the relationship between beef bans, yoga, and bodily purity in Hindu nationalist politics, the contributors demonstrate how meat is an ideal vantage point from which to better understand transnational circuits of power and ideology as well as the histories of colonialism, ableism, and sexism. Contributors. Trade Review“Meat is power, meat is politics. By expanding the definitional terrain of the word, the authors in this collection also reimagine the scope of food and animal studies and provide much-needed connective tissue (pun not intended) for future work in the field. This book is a game changer. Period.” -- Sharon Patricia Holland, author of * The Erotic Life of Racism *“A new and provocative engagement with the material and symbolic dimensions of meat within a transnational frame, this collection exfoliates meat's various layers, not to uncover an essential truth, but to examine meat as a dynamic, multiple, and unstable category. It is less about what meat is than it is about what meat does. It is precisely this dimension that renders Meat! an important scholarly advance in cultural studies, food studies, and gender, women, queer, and feminist studies.” -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, coeditor of * Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader *"In provocative and playful essays, diverse authors draw on established experts in such fields as colonial and postcolonial studies, transnational analysis, feminist science studies, queer theory, critical race theory, animal rights studies, and disability studies. . . . Most essays cross boundaries, too, in subject matter, disciplinary orientation, and methodology (such as moving from discursive to practical analysis), requiring proficiency with context-switching, making this both a challenging and rewarding read. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." -- S. M. Weiss * Choice *“Few books assemble critical writings from a transnational, intersectional, and postcolonial perspective. Meat! fills this gap.... Feminist scholars will no doubt find this edited volume useful and interesting.” -- Élisabeth Abergel * Atlantis *“The uniqueness of Meat! resides in reuniting scholars, many of them working on regions outside the Euro-Western world, in order to provocatively push the boundaries of what ethical practices and lives entail.” -- Valeria Meiller * ISLE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. How to Think with Meat / Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam 1 1. When Fish Is Meat: Transnational Entanglements / Elspeth Probyn 17 2. Eating the Mother / Irina Aristarkhova 39 3. Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic / Jennifer A. Hamilton 61 4. Beefing Yoga: Meat, Corporeality, and Politics / Sushmita Chatterjee 96 5. Eating after Chernobyl: Slow Violence and Reindeer Consumption in the Postnuclear Age / Anita Mannur 121 6. Romancing the Pig: A Queer Crip Tale from Barbeque to Xenotransplantation / Kim Q. Hall 139 7. On Being Meat: Three Parables on Sacrifice and Violence / Parama Roy 162 8. "I Hide in Plain Sight": Food and Black Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad / Psyche Williams-Forson 194 9. On Phooka: Beef, Milk, and the Framing of Animal Cruelty in Late Colonial Bengal / Neel Ahuja 213 10. Fake Meat: A Queer Commentary / Angela Willey 241 11. The Ethical Impurative: Elemental Frontiers of Technologized Meat / Banu Subramaniam 254 12. Fire and Ash / Mel Y. Chen 279 About the Contributors 293 Index 293
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Duke University Press Eating beside Ourselves
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Eating beside Ourselves examine eating as a site of transfer and transformation that create thresholds for human and nonhuman relations.Trade Review"This book offers both approachable case studies and provocations for academic conversation across disciplines, such as environmental and medical ethics or human geography and global justice. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." -- S. M. Weiss * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword / Wim Van Daele ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Eating Beside Ourselves / Heather Paxson 1 1. Sweetness across Thresholds at the Edge of the Sea / Amy Moran-Thomas 29 2. The Food of Our Food: Medicated Feed and the Industrialization of Metabolism / Hannah Landecker 56 Intercalary Exchange. Processing / Hannah Lnadecker and Alex Blanchette 86 3. The Politics of Palatability: Hog Viscera, Pet Food, and the Trade in Industrial Sense Impressions / Alex Blanchette 89 Intercalary Exchange. (In)Edibility / Alex Blanchette and Marianne Elisabeth Lien 11 4. Becoming Food: Edibility as Threshold in Arctic Norway / Marianne Elisabeth Lien 114 Intercelary Exchange. Giving / Marianne Elisabeth and Harris Solomon 137 5. On Life Support / Harris Solomon 140 Intercalary Exchange. Transgression / Harris Solomon and Emily Yates-Doerr 158 6. The Placenta: An Ethnographic Account of Feeding Relations / Emily Yates-Doerr 163 Intercalary Exchange/ Nourishment / Emily Yates-Doerr and Deborah Health 187 7. Between Sky and Earth: Biodynamic Viticulture's Slow Science / Deborah Heath 191 Contributors 219 Index
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New York University Press FastFood Kids
Book Synopsis2018 Morris Rosenberg Award, DC Sociological SocietyIn recent years, questions such as what are kids eating? and who's feeding our kids? have sparked a torrent of public and policy debates as we increasingly focus our attention on the issue of childhood obesity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that while 1 in 3 American children are either overweight or obese, that number is higher for children living in concentrated poverty. Enduring inequalities in communities, schools, and homes affect young people's access to different types of food, with real consequences in life choices and health outcomes. Fast-Food Kids sheds light on the social contexts in which kids eat, and the broader backdrop of social change in American life, demonstrating why attention to food's social meaning is important to effective public health policy, particularly actions that focus on behavioral change and school food reforms.Through in-depth interviews and observationTrade ReviewIn Fast-Food Kids, Amy Best takes us beyond the hype about obesity epidemics and food deserts, vividly bringing us into the world of young people and their food cultures. From the bustling cafeteria, to the local fast food joint, Best shows us how issues of class, race, health and indeed youth culture itself are shaped and shaped by food choices, eating practices and food availability. An important read for those concerned about young people, health and inequality. -- C. J. Pascoe, author of Dude, You're a FagSeeks to make apparent the moral dimensions and judgments that attach so readily, and strongly, to the choices that are imagined as being open to us all as we feed ourselves and our families. In these ongoing debates Best's book makes a valuable contribution. * American Journal of Sociology *Beautifully written and interwoven with shrewd observations, Fast-Food Kids makes a robust case for qualitative empirical analysis in health policymaking. * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *
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New York University Press Food Activism Today
Book SynopsisIlluminates how food activism has been taking shape and where it is headedAs climate change, childhood obesity, and food insecurity accelerate at an alarming pace, activists around the country are working to address the pressing need for healthy and sustainable solutions to feed the population. Food Activism Today investigates the new approaches food activists are taking as they formulate alternatives to the current unsustainable agro-industrial food system.Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over an eleven-month period in both urban and rural North Carolina, the volume addresses questions about the moral visions of food activists, how class and racial hierarchies infuse some food activism movements, and how food activism relates to climate change and imminent ecological collapse. Exploring food activism around both local and sustainable food production and food security for lower-income people, the volume finds surprisingly little overlap, with the
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MI - New York University Food Activism Today
Book SynopsisIlluminates how food activism has been taking shape and where it is headedAs climate change, childhood obesity, and food insecurity accelerate at an alarming pace, activists around the country are working to address the pressing need for healthy and sustainable solutions to feed the population. Food Activism Today investigates the new approaches food activists are taking as they formulate alternatives to the current unsustainable agro-industrial food system.Drawing on ethnographic research conducted over an eleven-month period in both urban and rural North Carolina, the volume addresses questions about the moral visions of food activists, how class and racial hierarchies infuse some food activism movements, and how food activism relates to climate change and imminent ecological collapse. Exploring food activism around both local and sustainable food production and food security for lower-income people, the volume finds surprisingly little overlap, with the
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New York University Press Planting With Purpose
Book SynopsisExamines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisionsIn the face of numerous challenges, small-scale farming for local markets requires enormous courage and optimism. The decision to become a farmer often arises from a profound desire to uphold certain values and beliefs, driven by the moral and emotional motivations to contribute to a greater good.Central New York's local food market draws a unique cohort of individuals who see farming as more than just a livelihood; it is a way to define a good life and contribute to the well-being of the society they cherish. Their moral order revolves around shared beliefs in sustainability and stewardship of the land, emphasizing health and risk management, cooperation over competition, and a deep sense of justice. For these farmers, relationships and family ties are foundational to their work, creating a strong sense of community wit
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New York University Press Planting With Purpose
Book SynopsisExamines local food movement activism in a period of increasing climate chaos and neoliberal crisis, economic inequalities and political divisionsIn the face of numerous challenges, small-scale farming for local markets requires enormous courage and optimism. The decision to become a farmer often arises from a profound desire to uphold certain values and beliefs, driven by the moral and emotional motivations to contribute to a greater good.Central New York's local food market draws a unique cohort of individuals who see farming as more than just a livelihood; it is a way to define a good life and contribute to the well-being of the society they cherish. Their moral order revolves around shared beliefs in sustainability and stewardship of the land, emphasizing health and risk management, cooperation over competition, and a deep sense of justice. For these farmers, relationships and family ties are foundational to their work, creating a strong sense of community wit
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New York University Press Good Eats
Book SynopsisA collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our livesIn an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically?Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to individual and collective values. These essays are not lectures about what you should eat, nor an advertisement for the latest diet. Instead, the contributors tell stories of real peoplereal bellies, real bodiesincluding the writers themselves, who seek to understand the experiences, cultures, histories, and systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics.A wide array of themes, topics, and perspectives inform the selections within Good Eats, contributing to an enhanced understanding of how we eat as individuals and in groups. From factory farming Trade ReviewA wonderful starting place to think about how to eat ethically. * Kirkus Reviews (starred) *While mindful eaters will find many familiar concepts, the engaging first-person narratives gently remind us not to turn a blind eye to these edible dilemmas while also cutting ourselves some slack. * Booklist *Good Eats explores people’s relationships to food through personal stories of love, connection, and emotional literacy. It argues that, in its purest form, food is about security, with love learned through recipes, people healing from grief through sweet food memories, and reconnecting with the land. * Foreword Reviews *It’s easy to think about ethical eating as a diminishment, to think that we need to reduce our lives in order to save the planet. As anybody who has ever attempted change on ethical grounds in their lives knows, it can be hard; it can be awkward; it can be frustrating. It can also be singularly gratifying and joyous. While we don’t have a definitive solution to “How do we eat ethically?”, the voices brought together in Good Eats begin the work of piecing together an answer. * Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals *In Good Eats, authors from all walks of life relate their daily struggles—moral as well as economic—to eat diets that promote human and environmental health and meet deeply held principles of food equity and social justice. Their accounts of these struggles are sometimes funny, always moving, and entirely recognizable by anyone trying to eat ethically. * Marion Nestle, author of Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics *
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New York University Press Good Eats
Book SynopsisA collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our livesIn an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically?Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to individual and collective values. These essays are not lectures about what you should eat, nor an advertisement for the latest diet. Instead, the contributors tell stories of real peoplereal bellies, real bodiesincluding the writers themselves, who seek to understand the experiences, cultures, histories, and systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics.A wide array of themes, topics, and perspectives inform the selections within Good Eats, contributing to an enhanced understanding of how we eat as individuals and in groups. From factory farming Trade ReviewA wonderful starting place to think about how to eat ethically. * Kirkus Reviews (starred) *While mindful eaters will find many familiar concepts, the engaging first-person narratives gently remind us not to turn a blind eye to these edible dilemmas while also cutting ourselves some slack. * Booklist *Good Eats explores people’s relationships to food through personal stories of love, connection, and emotional literacy. It argues that, in its purest form, food is about security, with love learned through recipes, people healing from grief through sweet food memories, and reconnecting with the land. * Foreword Reviews *It’s easy to think about ethical eating as a diminishment, to think that we need to reduce our lives in order to save the planet. As anybody who has ever attempted change on ethical grounds in their lives knows, it can be hard; it can be awkward; it can be frustrating. It can also be singularly gratifying and joyous. While we don’t have a definitive solution to “How do we eat ethically?”, the voices brought together in Good Eats begin the work of piecing together an answer. * Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals *In Good Eats, authors from all walks of life relate their daily struggles—moral as well as economic—to eat diets that promote human and environmental health and meet deeply held principles of food equity and social justice. Their accounts of these struggles are sometimes funny, always moving, and entirely recognizable by anyone trying to eat ethically. * Marion Nestle, author of Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics *
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New York University Press Feasting and Fasting
Book SynopsisHow Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular foods, or around fasting and then eating particular foods. Through fasting, feasting, dining, and noshing, food infuses the rich traditions of Judaism into daily life. What do the complicated laws of kosher food mean to Jews? How does food in Jewish bellies shape the hearts and minds of Jews? What does the Jewish relationship with food teach us about Christianity, Islam, and religion itself? Can food shape the future of Judaism? Feasting and Fasting explores questions like these to offer an expansive look at how Judaism and food have been intertwined, both historically and today. It also grapples with the charged ethical debates about how food choices reflect competing Jewish values about community, animals, the natural world and the very meaning of being human. Encompassing historical, ethnographic, and theoretical viewpoints, Trade Review"An accessible, detailed look at all aspects of Jewish food ... This rich, revealing collection will appeal to scholars and foodies alike." * Publishers Weekly *"A fascinating look at food from a variety of different angles … the essays were all well written and absorbing. Anyone interested in food studies or Jewish history will want to read this book." * Jewish World *"Anyone interested in Jewish food who reads these seven essays will emerge with plenty of points for further discussion [...] As a broad-based collection touching on many of the subspecialties, it should provide genuine 'food for thought' leading to further readings on specific topics." * Tradition *"Feasting and Fasting is a fascinating look at food from a variety of different angles… Anyone interested in food studies or Jewish history will want to read this book." * The Reporter *"This wide-ranging discussion of the history, philosophy, religion, and origins of Jewish culinary traditions should be in any serious culinary and Jewish history collection." * Midwest Review of Books *"Runs the gamut from biblical to contemporary Jewish food ways and includes both historical and ethical aspects of what, how, and why Jews eat." * Leah Hochman, University of Southern California *"Gathers a dream team of Jewish studies scholars whothank you!raise their heads from texts to focus on the meanings, rituals, conflicts, power dynamics, and pleasures of the material of food in the Jewish diaspora. . . . The book that follows considers the diversity of complex and often fraught relationships among food, Jews, and Others, across time and place, from biblical to supermarket aisle. It serves to initiate scholars of Judaism in the world of food studies and, for food scholars, richly informs studies of Jewish foodways." * Jonathan Deutsch, Co-author of Jewish American Food Culture *"Drawing on a stellar cast of contributors, Feasting and Fasting combines an unparalleled overview of Jewish food practices from Antiquity to Agriprocessors with boundary-breaking essays on Jewish foods and foodways. This remarkable volume will excite scholars and be invaluable for adoption in Jewish history and food studies courses.”" * Roger Horowitz, author of Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food *"A fascinating account of the history of Jewish food, within and outside of dietary laws. . . . Crisco is for Jews? Peanut oil caused such debates? Who knew. This book is a great read." * Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor and Professor Emerita, New York University *"This is a spectacular set of essays on a wide and eclectic range of topics. They're accessible to a wide audience and further strengthen the evolving conversation about the nature of the interaction between Jewish life, food, and the wider world we live in." * Nigel Savage, CEO, Hazon: The Jewish Lab for Sustainability *"The three courses of this book — history, culture, and ethics — are a tremendous feast, to be savored for a long time to come!" * Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, American Jewish University *
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New York University Press A Rich Brew
Book SynopsisFinalist, 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience, presented by the Jewish Book CouncilWinner, 2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, in the Jewish Literature and Linguistics Category, given by the Association for Jewish StudiesA fascinating glimpse into the world of the coffeehouse and its role in shaping modern Jewish cultureUnlike the synagogue, the house of study, the community center, or the Jewish deli, the café is rarely considered a Jewish space. Yet, coffeehouses profoundly influenced the creation of modern Jewish culture from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. With roots stemming from the Ottoman Empire, the coffeehouse and its drinks gained increasing popularity in Europe. The otherness, and the mix of the national and transnational characteristics of the coffeehouse perhaps explains why many of these cafés were owned by Jews, why Jews became their most devoted habitués, and how cafés acquired associations with Jewishness. Examining thTrade Review"[H]ugely entertaining and intimidatingly well researched, with scarcely a café in which a Jewish writer raised a cup of coffee from Warsaw to New York left undocumented." -- Adam Gopnik * The New Yorker *"Shachar Pinsker masterfully documents the impact of café life on Jewish culture throughout the civilized world. . . . A Rich Brew is aptly named. Engagingly illustrated with many contemporary photos and cartoons, it offers a deep dive into the café world of six cities that gave birth to modern Jewish thought and culture." * Moment Magazine *"A Rich Brew evokes the sense of lingering in a timeless café, savoring the flavor and scent of good coffee and the conversation that goes along with it." * The Jewish Week *"Pinsker . . . believes that cafés in six cities created modern Jewish culture. Its the kind of claim that sounds as if it might be a game-changer, and there are enough grounds and gossip in A Rich Brew to keep this customer engrossed from cup to cup." * The Wall Street Journal *"Pinsker makes clear the vital role literary cafes played in 19th- and 20th-century Western Jewish culture in this smart volume." * Publishers Weekly *"Pinsker takes the reader on a journey across the important centers of modern Jewish culture: Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, Berlin, New York and Tel Aviv, using a host of different sources and making for a captivating read." * The Forward *"This meticulously researched book pays tribute to an electrifying network of cafes that once incubated modern Jewish culture." -- Hadassah"Weaving stories of writers, artists, activists, and revolutionaries in the cafes of Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, Berlin, New York City, and Tel Aviv, Pinsker takes us on a journey from Moses Mendelssohn’s philosophical writings in Berlin’s Gelehrtes Kaffehause in 1755 to the funeral of the last Yiddish-speaking café owner in 1979 Tel Aviv, 'attended by a crowd of thousands.'" -- Marginalia Review of Books"A captivating tale of Jewish intellectual life, fueled by caffeine and good company in cities across the world." -- Metropole"Shachar Pinskers absorbing new work of nonfiction, A Rich Brew, uses the café as a vehicle both to describe the development of modern Jewish culture and to delve into the topics that drove its progression." * Jewish Book Council *"Pinsker packs his history with titillating behind-the-scenes snapshots of a cast of fascinating and enigmatic Jewish figures in cafés throughout history . . . makes for engaging, as well as nostalgic, reading, and begs the question: what has replaced the café in contemporary Jewish life?" * In geveb *"Pinsker’s greatest strength is in assembling evocative descriptions, both of individual cafés, and of cafés as a species of urban space. He expertly weaves together real-life accounts of cafés, including many in the journalistic-literary genre of the feuilleton, and their fictional depiction in the work of some of the most important Jewish writers of the 19th and 20th centuries." -- Reading Religion"Shachar Pinsker concocts a rich and pleasing brew of material culture, history, sociology, and text analysis to explore the roots of modern Jewish culture as we know it today. Describing the café as a 'thirdspace,' a liminal zone between the intimate and the public spheres, Pinsker follows the emergence of Jewish culture from the synagogue and the traditional house-of-study and its recreation as a modern, urban, secular intellectual heritage. Masterfully constructed and beautifully written, A Rich Brew is an illuminating and pleasurable read." -- Ruby Namdar,author of The Ruined House"A Rich Brew is an innovative work of Jewish cultural and literary history that illuminates how the café served as a laboratory that nourished Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the European cafes of Odessa, Warsaw, Vienna, and Berlin, to New York and Tel Aviv Jaffa, Pinsker charts a new account of the public spaces of Jewish culture and the new literary and cultural forms that where imagined there." -- Allison Schachter, author of Diasporic Modernisms: Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in the Twentieth Century"Shachar Pinsker, in part building on research he did for his admirable first book, Literary Passports, has produced a scrupulously documented and finely instructive account of the role of cafes in modern Jewish culture. A Rich Brew, providing apt discussions of many long-forgotten or unknown texts and a generous sampling of photographs of the sundry cafes, should be of considerable interest both for historians and students of modern Jewish literature." -- Robert Alter, Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley"The best part of this book is that it offers a new cultural history of Jewish modernity by utilizing literary studiesusing examples of poetry and prose written in and about cafés, it gives voice to artists who populated these cafés." -- Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto"A Rich Brew is an enjoyable, well-written book, accessible to a wide audience. Pinsker does a fine job introducing the reader to the larger historical contexts, especially of each individual city under examination; offers clear overviews of representative Jewish literary and artistic personalities; and, most importantly, brings to life the many (but now defunct) cafés that stand at the heart of his narrative." * AJS Review *"A great strength of A Rich Brew is the attention given to precisely what is absent from [Jürgen] Habermas’s text: the physical spaces of cafés and their relationship to the bourgeois public sphere. It is marvelous to see how much a literary historian learned about places (and people) from his close scrutiny of literature and art." * Sociological Forum *"The focus on examining individual cities is one of the book’s strongest points, as each chapter is a mini-historiography of class, religion, ethnicity, and gender. More than anything, however, A Rich Brew is an examination of the role of nostalgia for home in shaping everything from café discussions to creative output to historical reflection." * Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture *"[Pinsker] has uncovered a vibrant, far-flung network of neighborhood cafes that were patronized by Jewish writers with a taste for coffee, conversation, and difference." * Sociological Forum *"A Rich Brew takes us on a spectacular tour of urban Jewish cafés across several continents, invigorating our sense of Jewish modernity in the making." * The American Historical Review *"The power of this book is not merely in reminding the reader of the lost world of Jewish cafés but in showing how comparative analysis illuminates what is common and what is unique about Jews as a social group and the institutions they create." * American Jewish History *
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New York University Press Practicing Food Studies
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New York University Press Practicing Food Studies
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New York University Press FastFood Kids
Book Synopsis2018 Morris Rosenberg Award, DC Sociological SocietyIn recent years, questions such as what are kids eating? and who's feeding our kids? have sparked a torrent of public and policy debates as we increasingly focus our attention on the issue of childhood obesity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that while 1 in 3 American children are either overweight or obese, that number is higher for children living in concentrated poverty. Enduring inequalities in communities, schools, and homes affect young people's access to different types of food, with real consequences in life choices and health outcomes. Fast-Food Kids sheds light on the social contexts in which kids eat, and the broader backdrop of social change in American life, demonstrating why attention to food's social meaning is important to effective public health policy, particularly actions that focus on behavioral change and school food reforms.Through in-depth interviews and observationTrade ReviewIn Fast-Food Kids, Amy Best takes us beyond the hype about obesity epidemics and food deserts, vividly bringing us into the world of young people and their food cultures. From the bustling cafeteria, to the local fast food joint, Best shows us how issues of class, race, health and indeed youth culture itself are shaped and shaped by food choices, eating practices and food availability. An important read for those concerned about young people, health and inequality. -- C. J. Pascoe, author of Dude, You're a FagSeeks to make apparent the moral dimensions and judgments that attach so readily, and strongly, to the choices that are imagined as being open to us all as we feed ourselves and our families. In these ongoing debates Best's book makes a valuable contribution. * American Journal of Sociology *Beautifully written and interwoven with shrewd observations, Fast-Food Kids makes a robust case for qualitative empirical analysis in health policymaking. * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *
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New York University Press Forbidden
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New York University Press The Truth about Baked Beans
Book SynopsisForages through New England's most famous foods for the truth behind the region's culinary mythsMeg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: When did Bostonians start making Boston Baked Beans? Storekeepers in Faneuil Hall and Duck Tour guides may tell you that the Pilgrims learned a recipe for beans with maple syrup and bear fat from Native Americans, but in fact, the recipe for Boston Baked Beans is the result of a conscious effort in the late nineteenth century to create New England foods. New England foods were selected and resourcefully reinvented from fanciful stories about what English colonists cooked prior to the American revolutionwhile pointedly ignoring the foods cooked by contemporary New Englanders, especially the large immigrant populations who were powering industry and taking over farms around the region. The Truth about Baked Beans explores New England's culinary myths and reality through some of the region's most famous foods: baked beans, brown bread, clams, cod aTrade Review"A very entertaining, informative and ... useful food history/cookbook ... Snappy and entertaining." * Lakeville Journal *"With pugnacious wit, Meg Muckenhoupt offers a forceful case for replacing traditional Yankee fare as New England’s definitive cuisine with the ethnic and everyday dishes that New Englanders have actually eaten for the past century-and-a-half. It’s high time to update the region's food story and Muckenhoupt’s account kicks off the discussion in lively fashion. It invites, and will doubtless elicit, equally lively rejoinders." -- Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald, authors of America’s Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking"Like a carving knife cutting up a Thanksgiving turkey, Muckenhoupt deftly takes apart legends about New England cuisine. Showing us the recent and invented ‘traditions’ about all sorts of ye olde foods, from Boston Baked Beans to Cranberry Sauce, Muckenhoupt reveals the multi-ethnic New England behind the Yankee image; the real-world fish-sticks as well as the pseudo-traditional clambake. Thanksgiving will never seem the same." -- Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History, Yale University"In this very readable and informative account, Meg Muckenhoupt skillfully demonstrates how food can be used to ‘read’ history, illustrating how and why the imagery surrounding iconic foods of this region developed and persisted. Her intertwining of archival data, ethnographic observations, and cultural studies scholarship offers enticing insights into foods frequently used in national celebrations as well as for everyday meals, making this book relevant to anyone interested in American cuisine." -- Lucy Margaret Long, Director of the Center for Food and Culture, Bowling Green, Ohio"Equal parts history book, cookbook, and cultural criticism, Meg Muckenhoupt’s The Truth about Baked Beans: An Edible History of New England serves up a satisfying, delectable read that just might give Yankee stalwarts a hint of indigestion. Throughout, Muckenhoupt challenges prevailing notions about so-called traditional New England dishes while advocating an expansive, more inclusive vision of the history of the region’s cuisine—and of its future." -- Megan St. Marie * Résonance *
£23.74
New York University Press Feasting and Fasting
Book SynopsisHow Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eating particular foods, or around fasting and then eating particular foods. Through fasting, feasting, dining, and noshing, food infuses the rich traditions of Judaism into daily life. What do the complicated laws of kosher food mean to Jews? How does food in Jewish bellies shape the hearts and minds of Jews? What does the Jewish relationship with food teach us about Christianity, Islam, and religion itself? Can food shape the future of Judaism? Feasting and Fasting explores questions like these to offer an expansive look at how Judaism and food have been intertwined, both historically and today. It also grapples with the charged ethical debates about how food choices reflect competing Jewish values about community, animals, the natural world and the very meaning of being human. Encompassing historical, ethnographic, and theoretical viewpoints, Trade Review"An accessible, detailed look at all aspects of Jewish food ... This rich, revealing collection will appeal to scholars and foodies alike." * Publishers Weekly *"A fascinating look at food from a variety of different angles … the essays were all well written and absorbing. Anyone interested in food studies or Jewish history will want to read this book." * Jewish World *"Anyone interested in Jewish food who reads these seven essays will emerge with plenty of points for further discussion [...] As a broad-based collection touching on many of the subspecialties, it should provide genuine 'food for thought' leading to further readings on specific topics." * Tradition *"Feasting and Fasting is a fascinating look at food from a variety of different angles… Anyone interested in food studies or Jewish history will want to read this book." * The Reporter *"This wide-ranging discussion of the history, philosophy, religion, and origins of Jewish culinary traditions should be in any serious culinary and Jewish history collection." * Midwest Review of Books *"Runs the gamut from biblical to contemporary Jewish food ways and includes both historical and ethical aspects of what, how, and why Jews eat." * Leah Hochman, University of Southern California *"Gathers a dream team of Jewish studies scholars whothank you!raise their heads from texts to focus on the meanings, rituals, conflicts, power dynamics, and pleasures of the material of food in the Jewish diaspora. . . . The book that follows considers the diversity of complex and often fraught relationships among food, Jews, and Others, across time and place, from biblical to supermarket aisle. It serves to initiate scholars of Judaism in the world of food studies and, for food scholars, richly informs studies of Jewish foodways." * Jonathan Deutsch, Co-author of Jewish American Food Culture *"Drawing on a stellar cast of contributors, Feasting and Fasting combines an unparalleled overview of Jewish food practices from Antiquity to Agriprocessors with boundary-breaking essays on Jewish foods and foodways. This remarkable volume will excite scholars and be invaluable for adoption in Jewish history and food studies courses.”" * Roger Horowitz, author of Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food *"A fascinating account of the history of Jewish food, within and outside of dietary laws. . . . Crisco is for Jews? Peanut oil caused such debates? Who knew. This book is a great read." * Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor and Professor Emerita, New York University *"This is a spectacular set of essays on a wide and eclectic range of topics. They're accessible to a wide audience and further strengthen the evolving conversation about the nature of the interaction between Jewish life, food, and the wider world we live in." * Nigel Savage, CEO, Hazon: The Jewish Lab for Sustainability *"The three courses of this book — history, culture, and ethics — are a tremendous feast, to be savored for a long time to come!" * Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, Rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, American Jewish University *
£66.60
University of Toronto Press Between the Red and the Rockies
Book SynopsisCanadian agriculture began in the East and moved westward at an irregular pace. In contrast to the western aborigines, who were a non-agricultural race, the eastern tribes of Indians cultivated a little land and grew several species of crops for the purpose of supplementing the wild meat in their diets. Similarly the first white agricultural settlements were on the Atlantic coast, and for three centuries the West was left to the fur traders. But once started, the western wheat fields extended at a rate which had no parallel in world history. All Canadian life was affected. In a very real sense, wheat built a nation.In the years which followed Confederation, events west of Red River were of the greatest political significance to Canada. One has but to recount the uprisings of 1870 and 1885, the establishment of law and order by the mounted police, the formulation of Indian policies, the ambitious rail construction, the feverish expansion when immigration was at its peak, the w
£27.90
University of Nebraska Press Global Jewish Foodways
Book Synopsis The history of the Jewish people has been a history of migration. Although Jews invariably brought with them their traditional ideas about food during these migrations, just as invariably they engaged with the foods they encountered in their new environments. Their culinary habits changed as a result of both these migrations and the new political and social realities they encountered. The stories in this volume examine the sometimes bewildering kaleidoscope of food experiences generated by new social contacts, trade, political revolutions, wars, and migrations, both voluntary and compelled. This panoramic history of Jewish food highlights its breadth and depth on a global scale from Renaissance Italy to the post–World War II era in Israel, Argentina, and the United States and critically examines the impact of food on Jewish lives and on the complex set of laws, practices, and procedures that constitutes the Jewish dietary system and regulates what can be eatenTrade Review"The authors of the articles assembled in Global Jewish Foodways: A History illustrate how Jewish food, identity, and history are fundamentally intertwined. They bring different approaches to distinct aspects of this rich and long-lived heritage. As the field of food studies continues to expand, this book will become essential reading. Its diverse chapters show the interdisciplinary nature involved in this research. This book is recommended for use in Jewish studies, Jewish folklore studies, and Jewish history courses, as well as in ethnic studies more generally."—Annette Fromm, Journal of Folklore Research"An excellent resource for courses on food and foodways, Jewish studies, anthropology, and history courses about areas throughout the world with diasporic populations."—E. Pappas, Choice"Global Jewish Foodways is an essay collection that explores how food has helped maintain boundaries for Jews and how those boundaries and their culinary markers have shifted across time and geography. . . . Global Jewish Foodways is also an engaging look at little known chapters in Jewish history, including the millennia-old communities of Iraq, whose existence was cut short after 1948."—David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express“Finally we have a book on Jewish food that excavates the culinary history of the world’s oldest diasporic people. Global Jewish Foodways is a path-breaking collection, the first to track the extraordinarily diverse practices of a minority for whom food serves as a center of their identity. It will immediately become a classic in Jewish studies courses, open up food studies to Jewish perspectives, and excite general readers who want to better understand what constitutes Jewish food.”—Roger Horowitz, director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library“While kosher foods are widely known for marking the Jewish people’s distinctiveness, this outstanding volume shows that food also has been a historical source of connection between diasporic Jews and their gentile neighbors around the world. An unrivaled mosaic of the rich, global diversity of Jewish cuisines.”—Jeffrey M. Pilcher, University of Toronto Scarborough Research Excellence Faculty Scholar“Global Jewish Foodways is a significant contribution to the field of Jewish food studies. It offers a uniformly sophisticated and incisive collection of analyses of Jewish food in a broad range of modern global contexts by many well-known and up-and-coming scholars in Jewish food studies. It is informed by the most up-to-date critical discussions of ‘identity’ and food preferences and discourses about food as expressions of it.”—Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, professor of religion at Wheaton College Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword by Carlo Petrini Acknowledgments Introduction: Jewish Foodways in Food History and the Jewish Diasporic Experience Simone Cinotto and Hasia R. Diner Part 1. Crossing and Bridging Culinary Boundaries: Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptations of Jewish Food in the Encounter with the Non-Jewish Other 1. The Sausage in the Jews’ Pantry: Food and Jewish-Christian Relations in Renaissance Italy Flora Cassen 2. Global Jewish Peddling and the Matter of Food Hasia R. Diner 3. Jews among Muslims: Culinary Contexts Nancy E. Berg Part 2. The Politics of Jewish Food: Culinary Articulations of Power, Identity, and the State 4. Mosaic or Melting Pot: The Transformation of Middle Eastern Jewish Foodways in Israel Ari Ariel 5. Soviet Jewish Foodways: Transformation through Detabooization Gennady Estraikh 6. The Embodied Republic: Colonial and Postcolonial French Sephardic Taste Joëlle Bahloul Part 3. The Kosherization of Jewish Food: Playing Out Religion, Taste, and Health in the Marketplace and Popular Culture 7. Appetite and Hunger: Discourses and Perceptions of Food among Eastern European Jews in the Interwar Years Rakefet Zalashik 8. The Battle against Guefilte Fish: Asserting Sephardi Culinary Repertoires among Argentine Jews in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Adriana Brodsky 9. Still Life: Performing National Identity in Israel and Palestine at the Intersection of Food and Art Yael Raviv Part 4. The Food of the Diaspora: The Global Identity, Memory, and History of Jewish Food 10. From the Comfort of Home to Exile: German Jews and Their Foodways Marion Kaplan 11. “To Jewish Daughters”: Recipes for American Jewish Life, 1901–1918 Annie Polland 12. Dining in the Dixie Diaspora: A Meeting of Region and Religion Marcie Cohen Ferris List of Contributors Index
£35.10
University of Nebraska Press One Size Fits None
Book SynopsisArgues that in order to provide nutrient-rich food and fight climate change, we need to move beyond sustainable to regenerative agriculture, a practice that is highly tailored to local environments and renews resources. This book will resonate with anyone concerned about the future of food, providing guidance for creating a better, regenerative agricultural future.Trade Review"For reasons of public health and in the interest of a healthy planet, our corporate food system badly needs to be repaired. In One Size Fits None, Stephanie Anderson crisscrosses the country, visiting the intrepid farmers who practice exactly the sort of farming techniques that will serve as models for that needed reform."—Matt Sutherland, Foreword"Though these recollections have become complicated for Anderson due to her recent research, she writes convincingly that it is possible for her family's farm—and all farms— to find and implement the sustainable practices that will carry them into a better future. Even readers who are not directly involved in food production will come away from this book as more informed consumers, able to make better decisions about purchasing the food that sustains us, and with a much deeper understanding of how agricultural production has changed. And how it will—how it must—change again."—Katrina Gersie-Spronk, Hopper"It takes an agriculture reporter turned creative writer like Stephanie Anderson to do the legwork of reporting and research to explain how the world of industrial agriculture works. She does so clearly and convincingly, on every page of this book. But she’s not just throwing flames at big ag or careless consumers. She positions herself in the center of the bullseye, as she considers her own family ranch and what she’s come to understand as unsustainable management practices taking place there."—Julianne Couch, Daily Yonder"As an initial illustration of what regenerative agriculture could and does look like in practice, One Size Fits None is an invaluable resource, a step in the right direction of imagining alternative way of doing and organizing life around the soil and farming."—John C. Nichols, Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts"Anderson’s relatable, highly descriptive narrative deftly brings readers into the worlds of the five farmers featured in the book and presents a compelling take on industrial agriculture. Readers, both urban and rural, farm and nonfarm, will come away with a better understanding of how we can move toward changing a destructive system with solutions that are realistic and very attainable. One Size Fits None is sure to prompt fruitful discussions among reading groups, farm organizations, and students of agriculture."—Jenny Barker-Devine, Kansas History"This book is a call to bring farming away from abstraction and back into its concrete context as part of unique human and natural ecosystems. . . . I hope it finds readers who will take up its call to find creative ways to farm better."—Nathan Beacom, Front Porch Republic"One Size Fits None leaves readers with a hopeful feeling that regenerative agriculture has a rich future in the US if farmers are willing to change and if policymakers support such change."—Abby M. Dubisar, Great Plains Research “A brave and clear-eyed book by a farmer’s daughter about the problems in our agriculture and the factors that keep farmers from making it better. Stephanie Anderson . . . points the way toward an agriculture that regenerates our soil, our land, and our hopes.”—Kristin Ohlson, author of The Soil Will Save Us“Stephanie Anderson deftly counterpoints profiles of innovative farmers with affectionate yet honest reflections on her family’s farm—and the compromises the industrial model demands. Anderson is a strong, new voice for an agriculture that works for public health, for nature, and for farmers.”—Judith D. Schwartz, author of Cows Save the Planet and Water in Plain Sight“One Size Fits None should be required reading for anyone who yearns for a clear-headed and informed account of our dysfunctional corporate food system, which also examines hopeful models for reform.”—Andrew Furman, author of Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida and Goldens Are HereTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Conventional 1. The Vice President 2. The Farm We Grew 3. The Growth of Roth Farms 4. The Farm Town 5. The Muck Part Two: Holistic Regenerative 6. The Holistic Philosophy 7. The Grass 8. The Buffalo 9. The End of the CAFO 10. The Sun’s Wealth Part Three: Organic Regenerative 11. The Surfing Farmer 12. The Mission 13. The Plants 14. The Lifestyle 15. The Consumer 16. The Farmer Goes to the Table 17. The Urban Farmer 18. The Agriculturalized City Part Four: Diversified Regenerative 19. The Diversified Farm 20. The Soil 21. The Abundance of an Acre 22. The Livestock 23. The Alternative to Hay 24. The Restoration of the Native Prairie 25. The Farmers’ Market 26. The Message to Conventional Farmers Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography
£16.14
University of Nebraska Press Global Jewish Foodways
Book Synopsis The history of the Jewish people has been a history of migration. Although Jews invariably brought with them their traditional ideas about food during these migrations, just as invariably they engaged with the foods they encountered in their new environments. Their culinary habits changed as a result of both these migrations and the new political and social realities they encountered. The stories in this volume examine the sometimes bewildering kaleidoscope of food experiences generated by new social contacts, trade, political revolutions, wars, and migrations, both voluntary and compelled. This panoramic history of Jewish food highlights its breadth and depth on a global scale from Renaissance Italy to the post–World War II era in Israel, Argentina, and the United States and critically examines the impact of food on Jewish lives and on the complex set of laws, practices, and procedures that constitutes the Jewish dietary system and regulates what can be eatenTrade Review"The authors of the articles assembled in Global Jewish Foodways: A History illustrate how Jewish food, identity, and history are fundamentally intertwined. They bring different approaches to distinct aspects of this rich and long-lived heritage. As the field of food studies continues to expand, this book will become essential reading. Its diverse chapters show the interdisciplinary nature involved in this research. This book is recommended for use in Jewish studies, Jewish folklore studies, and Jewish history courses, as well as in ethnic studies more generally."—Annette Fromm, Journal of Folklore Research"An excellent resource for courses on food and foodways, Jewish studies, anthropology, and history courses about areas throughout the world with diasporic populations."—E. Pappas, Choice"Global Jewish Foodways is an essay collection that explores how food has helped maintain boundaries for Jews and how those boundaries and their culinary markers have shifted across time and geography. . . . Global Jewish Foodways is also an engaging look at little known chapters in Jewish history, including the millennia-old communities of Iraq, whose existence was cut short after 1948."—David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express“Finally we have a book on Jewish food that excavates the culinary history of the world’s oldest diasporic people. Global Jewish Foodways is a path-breaking collection, the first to track the extraordinarily diverse practices of a minority for whom food serves as a center of their identity. It will immediately become a classic in Jewish studies courses, open up food studies to Jewish perspectives, and excite general readers who want to better understand what constitutes Jewish food.”—Roger Horowitz, director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library“While kosher foods are widely known for marking the Jewish people’s distinctiveness, this outstanding volume shows that food also has been a historical source of connection between diasporic Jews and their gentile neighbors around the world. An unrivaled mosaic of the rich, global diversity of Jewish cuisines.”—Jeffrey M. Pilcher, University of Toronto Scarborough Research Excellence Faculty Scholar“Global Jewish Foodways is a significant contribution to the field of Jewish food studies. It offers a uniformly sophisticated and incisive collection of analyses of Jewish food in a broad range of modern global contexts by many well-known and up-and-coming scholars in Jewish food studies. It is informed by the most up-to-date critical discussions of ‘identity’ and food preferences and discourses about food as expressions of it.”—Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, professor of religion at Wheaton College Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword by Carlo Petrini Acknowledgments Introduction: Jewish Foodways in Food History and the Jewish Diasporic Experience Simone Cinotto and Hasia R. Diner Part 1. Crossing and Bridging Culinary Boundaries: Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptations of Jewish Food in the Encounter with the Non-Jewish Other 1. The Sausage in the Jews’ Pantry: Food and Jewish-Christian Relations in Renaissance Italy Flora Cassen 2. Global Jewish Peddling and the Matter of Food Hasia R. Diner 3. Jews among Muslims: Culinary Contexts Nancy E. Berg Part 2. The Politics of Jewish Food: Culinary Articulations of Power, Identity, and the State 4. Mosaic or Melting Pot: The Transformation of Middle Eastern Jewish Foodways in Israel Ari Ariel 5. Soviet Jewish Foodways: Transformation through Detabooization Gennady Estraikh 6. The Embodied Republic: Colonial and Postcolonial French Sephardic Taste Joëlle Bahloul Part 3. The Kosherization of Jewish Food: Playing Out Religion, Taste, and Health in the Marketplace and Popular Culture 7. Appetite and Hunger: Discourses and Perceptions of Food among Eastern European Jews in the Interwar Years Rakefet Zalashik 8. The Battle against Guefilte Fish: Asserting Sephardi Culinary Repertoires among Argentine Jews in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Adriana Brodsky 9. Still Life: Performing National Identity in Israel and Palestine at the Intersection of Food and Art Yael Raviv Part 4. The Food of the Diaspora: The Global Identity, Memory, and History of Jewish Food 10. From the Comfort of Home to Exile: German Jews and Their Foodways Marion Kaplan 11. “To Jewish Daughters”: Recipes for American Jewish Life, 1901–1918 Annie Polland 12. Dining in the Dixie Diaspora: A Meeting of Region and Religion Marcie Cohen Ferris List of Contributors Index
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press Cattle Country
Book SynopsisAs beef and cattle production progressed in nineteenth-century America, the cow emerged as the nation’s representative food animal and earned a culturally prominent role in the literature of the day. In Cattle Country Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society’s broader struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization. Dolan examines diverse texts from Native American, African American, Mexican American, and white authors that showcase the zeitgeist of anxiety surrounding U.S. identity as cattle gradually became an industrialized food source, altering the country’s culture while exacting a high cost to humans, animals, and the land. From Henry David Thoreau’s descriptions of indigenous cuisines as a challenge to the rising monoculture, to Washington Irving’s travel narrativesTrade Review"Dolan's book . . . should become a foundational resource for future scholarship on the subject as it shines a light on the too-hungry forces of such an industry by the people who witnessed it and wrote back in complicated celebration and protest."—Tom Hertweck, Western American Literature"If you are interested . . . in seeing how livestock (particularly, cattle) have played into the larger narrative of Manifest Destiny and the homogenization of American cuisine—and, ultimately, American culture—then this book has many useful insights."—Dan Holtz, Nebraska History"A well-researched book."—Randi Samuelson-Brown, Denver Westerners RoundUp“A refreshing and unique take on not only what cattle meant to settlers but also how cattle were used as instruments for developing notions of race and American identity. In an Anthony Bourdain–like journey across the country, this book gives you a sense of regional food history in America. You can really taste the food by the end. It is important for scholarship and historical understanding of the United States.”—Karen Piper, author of The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos“A critical contribution to its field, both in its individual arguments about literature and food and also in its modeling of a comparative methodology attuned to region, indigeneity, and global migration.”—Catherine Keyser, author of Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial FictionsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Cattle and Progress 1. Washington Irving, Cattle, and Indian Territory 2. Civilizing Cattle in the Writings of James and Susan Fenimore Cooper 3. Henry David Thoreau, Regional Cuisine, and Cattle 4. Cattle and Sovereignty in the Work of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins 5. The Cowboys Are Indians in The Squatter and the Don 6. Southern Cuisine without Cattle in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Stories 7. Industrial-Global Cattle in Upton Sinclair and Winnifred Eaton Conclusion: Meat Is the Message Notes Bibliography Index
£45.00
University of Nebraska Press Agriculture in the Midwest 18151900
Book Synopsis2024 Jon Gjerde Prize Winner for best book in Midwestern History After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region’s Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided the bountiful life of their dreams, others found disappointment, even failure—and still others suffered social and racial prejudice. In this broad and authoritative survey of midwestern agriculture from the War of 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century, R. Douglas Hurt contends that this region proved to be the country’s garden spot and the nation’s heart of agricultural production. During these eighty-five years the region transformed from a sparsely settled area to the home of large industrial and commercial cities, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit. Still, it remained primarily an agricultural region that promised a better life for many of the people who acquired laTrade Review“No one has understood this highly complex region during this transformative nineteenth century better than Douglas Hurt, the dean of American agricultural historians. This book is of immense importance for scholars, specialists, and non-specialists alike. In this synthesis of the literature Hurt demonstrates his mastery of both the old agricultural history and the new rural history. It is a tour de force by any measure.”—David Vaught, author of The Farmers’ Game: Baseball in Rural America“Douglas Hurt, one of the brightest lights in the expanding constellation of midwestern studies, has produced another classic by chronicling the foundational role of yeoman farming in the development of the American Midwest. It will be a critical text for the new midwestern history.”—Jon K. Lauck, editor in chief of Middle West Review“No one knows more than Douglas Hurt about agriculture in the Midwest. Each of these chapters is replete with facts and insights that at once illuminate the region’s agricultural past and underscore its importance to American development more broadly in the nineteenth century. Hurt demonstrates a remarkable command of primary and secondary sources relating to the topics treated, and his historical judgment is fair and balanced. This book is authoritative and will prove of lasting value.”—Peter Coclanis, author of The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670–1920Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Seekers 2. Settlers 3. Graziers 4. Tinkerers 5. Utopians 6. Warriors 7. Colonizers 8. Educators 9. Farmers 10. Reformers Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£49.30
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Dining with Madmen Fat Food and the Environment in 1980s Horror
Book SynopsisIn Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror.
£26.06
Stanford University Press Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
Book SynopsisFood in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in Cuba's faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifically looking at the social and emotional dimensions of shifts in access to food. Based on extensive fieldwork with families in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest city, Hanna Garth examines Cuban families' attempts to acquire and assemble "a decent meal," unraveling the layers of household dynamics, community interactions, and individual reflections on everyday life in today's Cuba. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s and the subsequent loss of its most significant trade partner, Cuba entered a period of economic hardship. Although trade agreements have significantly improved the quantity and quality of rationed food in Cuba, many Cubans report that they continue to live with food shortages and economic hardship. Garth tells the stories of families that face the daily challenge of acquiring not only enough food, but food that meets local and personal cultural standards. She ultimately argues that these ongoing struggles produce what the Cuban families describe as "a change in character," and that for some, this shifting concept of self and sense of social relation leads to a transformation in society. Food in Cuba shows how the practices of acquisition and the politics of adequacy are intricately linked to the local moral stances on what it means to be a good person, family member, community member, and ultimately, a good Cuban.Trade Review"Garth's in-depth and intimate ethnography portrays the shortcomings in Cuba's welfare system, and the profound consequences for the way people eat and think of themselves as Cuban. Presenting the stories of highly resourceful individuals and communities, Garth shows us that the Cuban experience and post-Soviet lives cannot be decoupled from everyday food practices."—Megan A. Carney, author of The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity across Borders"In her rich ethnography of food 'insecurity' in a place where no one starves, Hanna Garth traces the daily practices of food acquisition and the effects of inadequacy on identity. Garth depicts the experience of dependence upon a faltering socialist infrastructure, recording a longing for what was before, discontent with the seemingly changeless present, and a hope for future possibilities."—Nancy J. Burke, author of Health Travels: Cuban Health(care) On and Off the Island"Garth offers a literary masterclass in how the analysis of food can help us understand social relations while the analysis of social relations can help us understand food."—Emily Yates-Doerr, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition"This is an ethnography rich with thick description about the politics of adequacy as seen through the lens of household food acquisition....Food in Cuba opens our eyes to all that people go through to acquire the foods they desire."—Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz, Food, Culture & Society"Garth accessibly addresses important theoretical and political debates while anchoring every insight in rich ethnographic detail. She achieves a sympathetic and nuanced portrait of people who struggle more than they should for the basic elements of life while still engaging in complex social critique and political analysis and acts of solidarity, as well as, against the odds, finding ways to flourish."—Alyshia Gálvez, American Anthropology"[Food in Cuba] expands our understanding of food security, showing that it must mean more than simply access to sufficient nutrients for survival.By turning our attention to food acquisition, Garth's ethnography raises new questions about the kind of systems that people rely upon to produce enough or sufficient food."—Maggie Dickinson, PoLAR"[Food in Cuba] presents a complex picture of the tension between the socialist state and Cuban women....Garth successfully employs experiences from her fieldwork to the reader's benefit, expertly conveying the emotional highs and depressive lows that different individuals feel as they battle every day to produce a decent meal. Recommended."—S. L. Kwosek, CHOICE"As Santiagueros insist, alimentary dignity is an essential ingredient of mental health and well-being. Garth beautifully demonstrates how such notions of health deserve both analytical rigor and political weight in discussions of the body, the self, and the state in marginalized Caribbean communities."—Kyrstin Mallon Andrews, Medical Anthropology Quarterly"Food in Cuba is a thought-provoking ethnography that should appeal to multiple audiences, including policy makers, health professionals, and scholars interested in Cuba, for its critical perspective on narrow definitions of food security and for its valuable perspective on how chronic food shortages impact mental health and social dynamics on the island."—Adriana Premat, Transforming Anthropology"Garth's study of marginalized Santiagueros and their 'ingestive practices', portrays a particular kind of living, involving intimate socialities and intimate performances, where one is constantly negotiating the fine line of acting ethical and losing one's Cubanidad. It is an important part of a larger body of work in anthropology that portrays the urban precariat making do in the grey zone."—Daina Cheyenne Harvey, UrbanitiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: In Pursuit of Adequacy 1. La Lucha 2. Antes 3. Virtuous Womanhood 4. Community 5. Breakdown Conclusion: The Politics of Adequacy
£75.20
Stanford University Press Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
Book SynopsisFood in Cuba follows Cuban families as they struggle to maintain a decent quality of life in Cuba's faltering, post-Soviet welfare state by specifically looking at the social and emotional dimensions of shifts in access to food. Based on extensive fieldwork with families in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest city, Hanna Garth examines Cuban families' attempts to acquire and assemble "a decent meal," unraveling the layers of household dynamics, community interactions, and individual reflections on everyday life in today's Cuba. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s and the subsequent loss of its most significant trade partner, Cuba entered a period of economic hardship. Although trade agreements have significantly improved the quantity and quality of rationed food in Cuba, many Cubans report that they continue to live with food shortages and economic hardship. Garth tells the stories of families that face the daily challenge of acquiring not only enough food, but food that meets local and personal cultural standards. She ultimately argues that these ongoing struggles produce what the Cuban families describe as "a change in character," and that for some, this shifting concept of self and sense of social relation leads to a transformation in society. Food in Cuba shows how the practices of acquisition and the politics of adequacy are intricately linked to the local moral stances on what it means to be a good person, family member, community member, and ultimately, a good Cuban.Trade Review"Garth's in-depth and intimate ethnography portrays the shortcomings in Cuba's welfare system, and the profound consequences for the way people eat and think of themselves as Cuban. Presenting the stories of highly resourceful individuals and communities, Garth shows us that the Cuban experience and post-Soviet lives cannot be decoupled from everyday food practices."—Megan A. Carney, author of The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity across Borders"In her rich ethnography of food 'insecurity' in a place where no one starves, Hanna Garth traces the daily practices of food acquisition and the effects of inadequacy on identity. Garth depicts the experience of dependence upon a faltering socialist infrastructure, recording a longing for what was before, discontent with the seemingly changeless present, and a hope for future possibilities."—Nancy J. Burke, author of Health Travels: Cuban Health(care) On and Off the Island"Garth offers a literary masterclass in how the analysis of food can help us understand social relations while the analysis of social relations can help us understand food."—Emily Yates-Doerr, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition"This is an ethnography rich with thick description about the politics of adequacy as seen through the lens of household food acquisition....Food in Cuba opens our eyes to all that people go through to acquire the foods they desire."—Luis Alexis Rodríguez-Cruz, Food, Culture & Society"Garth accessibly addresses important theoretical and political debates while anchoring every insight in rich ethnographic detail. She achieves a sympathetic and nuanced portrait of people who struggle more than they should for the basic elements of life while still engaging in complex social critique and political analysis and acts of solidarity, as well as, against the odds, finding ways to flourish."—Alyshia Gálvez, American Anthropology"[Food in Cuba] expands our understanding of food security, showing that it must mean more than simply access to sufficient nutrients for survival.By turning our attention to food acquisition, Garth's ethnography raises new questions about the kind of systems that people rely upon to produce enough or sufficient food."—Maggie Dickinson, PoLAR"[Food in Cuba] presents a complex picture of the tension between the socialist state and Cuban women....Garth successfully employs experiences from her fieldwork to the reader's benefit, expertly conveying the emotional highs and depressive lows that different individuals feel as they battle every day to produce a decent meal. Recommended."—S. L. Kwosek, CHOICE"As Santiagueros insist, alimentary dignity is an essential ingredient of mental health and well-being. Garth beautifully demonstrates how such notions of health deserve both analytical rigor and political weight in discussions of the body, the self, and the state in marginalized Caribbean communities."—Kyrstin Mallon Andrews, Medical Anthropology Quarterly"Food in Cuba is a thought-provoking ethnography that should appeal to multiple audiences, including policy makers, health professionals, and scholars interested in Cuba, for its critical perspective on narrow definitions of food security and for its valuable perspective on how chronic food shortages impact mental health and social dynamics on the island."—Adriana Premat, Transforming Anthropology"Garth's study of marginalized Santiagueros and their 'ingestive practices', portrays a particular kind of living, involving intimate socialities and intimate performances, where one is constantly negotiating the fine line of acting ethical and losing one's Cubanidad. It is an important part of a larger body of work in anthropology that portrays the urban precariat making do in the grey zone."—Daina Cheyenne Harvey, UrbanitiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: In Pursuit of Adequacy 1. La Lucha 2. Antes 3. Virtuous Womanhood 4. Community 5. Breakdown Conclusion: The Politics of Adequacy
£19.79
Stanford University Press A Decent Meal: Building Empathy in a Divided
Book SynopsisA poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food. While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our dinner tables, along the aisles of our supermarkets, and in the fields growing our fruits and vegetables. What is more common, after all, than the simple fact that we all need to eat? This book is the result of Carolan's career-long efforts to create simulations in which food could be used to build empathy, among even the staunchest of rivals. Though most people assume that presenting facts will sway the way the public behaves, time and again this assumption is proven wrong as we all selectively accept the facts that support our beliefs. Drawing on the data he has collected, Carolan argues that we must, instead, find places and practices where incivility—or worse, hate—is suspended and leverage those opportunities into tools for building social cohesion. Each chapter follows the individuals who participated in a given experiment, ranging from strawberry-picking, attempting to subsist on SNAP benefits, or attending a dinner of wild game. By engaging with participants before, during, and after, Carolan is able to document their remarkable shifts in attitude and opinion. Though this book is framed around food, it is really about the spaces opened up by our need for food, in our communities, in our homes, and, ultimately, in our minds.Trade Review"Michael Carolan's collection of studies, experiences and stories in A Decent Meal is a reaction to the extreme social polarization in the U.S., which peaked with the storming of the Capitol. Knowledge of this disintegration, however, only appears in passing in his work – his main concern is how to stop the process. The sociologist does not think about big solutions, structural reforms or laws. For him, the focus is on the individual and the question of whether and how to get through to them. The book is a profoundly humanistic response to a tremendous humanistic crisis"—getAbstract Journal"With interactions around food as his guiding framework, Michael Carolan seeks to answer questions keeping many Americans awake right now: Can we learn to see some of today's red-hot issues through a different lens? And in doing so, can we find common ground and maybe even some civility in these deeply divided times? An engaging and eminently readable book that may surprise with some of its observations, offering both insights and hope for our future conversations."—Joyce E. McConnell, President, Colorado State University"This is an important and timely book that balances the voices of the right and left in a conversation about community and civility. An absolute pleasure to read, it illuminates encounters in the heartland of America and the pursuit of a decent meal. Not sure what a decent meal looks like? Michael Carolan shows us, and in the process also shows us what it looks like for Americans to come together in common cause." —Erik Schneiderhan, University of Toronto"Empathy is in short supply in America at the very time we need it. Many of our political divisions reflect a lack of understanding of those different from ourselves. Carolan does an outstanding job giving voice to people in the heartland and helping us to understand their fears, anxieties, and motivations. His work helps us confront the challenges facing American society and ways to overcome those divisions."—Darrell West, Brookings Institution"As a scholar who is interested in misunderstandings and empathy deficits, Carolan's writing offers insights into the ways that stereotypes take diverse forms and how these patterns—rooted in a fundamental lack of understanding—fuel political polarization. The end goal is not necessarily to see everybody as identical but to have an empathetic understanding rooted in a respect for alterity rather than a knee-jerk disdain for essentialized difference."—Josée Johnston, Social ForcesTable of Contents1. Journeys to the Heartland 2. How Would You Stomach That? 3. We're Being Pulled Apart 4. Farming Familiarity 5. Working to Respect Those Who Fed Us 6. Urban-Rural Food Plans 7. Forest to Table 8. Final Thoughts and New Trajectories
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Stanford University Press States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in
Book SynopsisOn any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz 'arabi—the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita. Some rely on this bread to avoid starvation; for others it is a customary pleasure. Yet despite its ubiquity in accounts of Middle East politics and society, rarely do we consider how bread is prepared, consumed, discussed, and circulated—and what this all represents. With this book, José Ciro Martínez examines khubz 'arabi to unpack the effects of the welfare program that ensures its widespread availability. Drawing on more than a year working as a baker in Amman, Martínez probes the practices that underpin subsidized bread. Following bakers and bureaucrats, he offers an immersive examination of social welfare provision. Martínez argues that the state is best understood as the product of routine practices and actions, through which it becomes a stable truth in the lives of citizens. States of Subsistence not only describes logics of rule in contemporary Jordan—and the place of bread within them—but also unpacks how the state endures through forms, sensations, and practices amid the seemingly unglamorous and unspectacular day-to-day.Trade Review"Original, lucidly written, and theoretically rigorous, this rich ethnography tells us how to find the state in a quite unexpected place: the bakery. An outstanding book."—John Chalcraft, London School of Economics, author of Popular Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East"The exciting States of Subsistence not only challenges how we think about state power in Jordan, but offers a nuanced reading of the literature on state power and an original theoretical approach. José Ciro Martínez provides a roadmap for examining quotidian practices of state power in democracies and non-democracies alike."—Jillian Schwedler, author of Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent"Beautifully written, rich in ethnographic detail, States of Subsistence examines the constitution of the state at a novel site: the bakery. Drawing on remarkable access to the inner workings of both bakeries and government bureaucracy, José Ciro Martínez offers a nuanced account of how subsidized bread figures in people's everyday lives and encounters with the state."—Jessica Barnes, author of Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt"Jose Ciro Martinez's brilliant new book,States of Subsistence, largely sets aside those dominant questions of bread riots, food security, regime survival and economic reforms to craft a uniquely important and absolutely fascinating look into the political meaning of the lived experience of subsidized bread in Jordan."—Marc Lynch, Abu Aardvark"In this fascinating book, [Martínez] reveals the extent to which the bread subsidy is intimately woven into the economic, social, and political life of the kingdom."—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs"Centering the perspectives of Jordanians with intimate knowledge of bread and baking, Martínez demonstrates the analytical payoff of taking cultures of consumption and culinary knowledge seriously."—Anny Gaul, Current History"Martínez sees the consumption and production of bread as a microcosm for how Jordanians coexist with authoritarian power. There is no other book about the politics of subsidizing bread in Jordan, certainly none that bestows such a memorable conclusion."—Sean L. Yom, Middle East Research and Information Project"I have long waited for this kind of book, an embodied political economy of a staple food such as bread, and how it literally—rather than just symbolically—sustains a nation. Martinez's evocative ethnography of bread and political stability in Jordan is a prime example of how minute attention to everyday food practices can yield deep analytical insights into the workings of a state."—Katharina Graf, Gastronomica"This splendid ethnographic study addresses one of political science's most glaring lacunae. Few things weigh more heavily than food upon both citizens and governments alike. Yet few other concepts are as understudied as this one, particularly by political scientists working on the Middle East.... To make sense of this uncertain future, observers of Jordan should consider how politics and food became wedded to one another in the first place. States of Subsistence is a magnificent place to start."—Sean Yom, International Journal of Middle East StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: 1. A New Style of Administration 2. Sensing the State 3. Statecraft 4. Echoes, Absences, and Reach 5. Tactics at the Bakery 6. Leavened Apprehensions Conclusion
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