Cultural studies: food and society Books

Book SynopsisEnglish summary: This is the first Spanish textbook to use food as the vantage point from which to learn language and acquire cultural literacy. It presents a rich introduction to food and food practices across the Hispanic world. It serves advanced secondary-level/high school students and students in second- and third-year Spanish at the university level who are furthering their knowledge of Hispanic cultures. Information is organized according to topics and key concepts, with historical and literary texts acting as enrichment and support for cultural concepts. Each chapter is comprised of a main reading on a key topic (for example, Aztec food practices) and followed by smaller sections on particular concepts or artifacts related to the main topic. There are sections on related language expressions, reading comprehension exercises, suggested writing exercises, and topics for discussion. Each chapter also contains illustrations in the form of colour photographs and drawings, and includes suggestions for video and web links. The book has been successfully used in the author's university classes on food and culture over a number of years. It provides an attractive alternative to well-established curricular offerings because it allows for the discussion of culture and literary texts in a context that is both familiar and appealing to students. The textbook invites multimedia presentations that make the material and concepts easy to grasp. German description: El libro ofrece una rica introduccion a la cultura para estudiantes de niveles intermedios y avanzados de lengua a traves del estudio de las practicas alimentarias. El texto presenta una vision global de los alimentos en el contexto de las diversas culturas y paises que componen el mundo de habla hispana. Combina temas de interes actual con la presentacion de artefactos y elementos relevantes de la cultura material, asi como la contribucion de grupos etnicos. Hasta la fecha ningun libro de texto destinado al estudio del espanol ha utilizado la comida como el foco central desde el que aprender el idioma y adquirir conocimientos culturales. Este libro esta dirigido a estudiantes avanzados de secundaria y estudiantes en el tercer y cuarto ano de espanol a nivel universitario. El libro puede utilizarse como una introduccion alternativa a los temas culturales y literarios tras finalizar el segundo ano de lengua gracias a la amplitud de los temas que trata. La informacion esta org! anizada por temas y conceptos clave, con textos historicos y literarios que sirven de enriquecimiento y apoyo para los conceptos culturales. Cada capitulo cuenta con una lectura principal en un tema clave (por ejemplo, las practicas de la alimentacion azteca), seguido por secciones mas pequenas centradas en conceptos o en artefactos relacionados con el tema principal. Hay secciones sobre expresiones linguisticas relacionadas con el tema, ejercicios de comprension de las lecturas, sugerencias para ejercicios de escritura y de trabajo individual o en grupo, asi como temas de conversacion y debate. Cada capitulo tambien contiene ilustraciones en forma de fotografias y dibujos. Este libro ofrece una atractiva oferta curricular, ya que permite la discusion de temas de cultura y de textos literarios en un contexto que es a la vez familiar y ameno para los estudiantes. El libro de texto tambien invita presentaciones multimedia que hacen que el material y los conceptos sean de mas !facil comprension.Trade Review"Presents a novel approach to teaching the culture and language of the Hispanic world which is interesting and thorough." Professor Maria Paz Moreno, University of Cincinnati "Very enjoyable and extremely informative, this work fills an important gap within the field of Hispanic and Latin American studies programs." Assistant Professor Rafael Climent-Espino, Baylor UniversityTable of ContentsCapitulo 1: Comida, Cultura y Tradiciones Ancestrales (Ancestral Food, Culture and Traditions)Capitulo 2: 'De que Humor estas Hoy?(Good Humour/Bad Humour)Capitulo 3: Reglas Dieteticas y Persecucion Religiosa(Dietary Laws and Religious Persecution)Capitulo 4: Chocolate y el Mundo Azteca(Chocolate and the Aztec World)Capitulo 5: Tradiciones Nativas Americanas: Incas, Aimaras y Mapuches (Native American Traditions: Incas, Aymara and Mapuches)Capitulo 6: Intercambio Colombino(Colombian Exchange)Capitulo 7: Comida de Pelicula: Identidades Culturales(Movie Food: Cultural Identities)Capitulo 8: Los Gauchos y el Fuego(The Gauchos and Fire)Capitulo 9: Cocina y Mestizaje (Cooking and Intercultural Relationships)Capitulo 10: Centroamerica y las Aportaciones Mayas(Central America and the Mayan Contributions)Capitulo 11: Gustos y Disgustos: El Sabor de la Tierra(Likes and Dislikes: The Taste of my Land)Capitulo 12: Dietas Carnivoras, Dietas Vegetarianas(Carnivores and Vegetarians)Capitulo 13: Mapas Gastronomicos: Espana(Gastronomic Maps: Spain)Capitulo 14: Naciones Culturales y Gastronomicas: Euskadi(Cultures and Gastronomic Nations: Basque Country)

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a welcome and timely contribution to a topic of enduring importance. The global consequences of recent food price crises underscore the need to examine food security issues from diverse perspectives. This volume meets that need, featuring accessible yet cutting-edge analyses of food security by leading experts in fields as diverse as trade, nutrition, public health, production, political economy, and behavioral economics. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and practitioners.'- Steven Block, Tufts University, US'This excellent volume offers a compact but wide-ranging survey of recent research on important changes in global food markets. Its 20 chapters accurately capture important areas of scholarly agreement as well as on-going debates among economists studying agriculture and nutrition, with several provocative original contributions from other fields. The book draws particularly on the authors' long experience in Asia, offering widely-applicable insights for scholars and policy analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food around the world.'- William A. Masters, Tufts University, USThe global population is forecasted to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, with much of this increase concentrated in developing regions and cities. Ensuring adequate food and nourishment to this large population is a pressing economic, moral and even security challenge and requires research (and action) from a multi-disciplinary perspective.This book provides the first such integrated approach to tackling this problem by addressing the multiplicity of challenges posed by rising global population, diet diversification and urbanization in developing countries and climate change.It examines key topics such as:- the impact of prosperity on food demand- the role of international trade in addressing food insecurity- the challenge posed by greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land degradation- the implication on labor markets of severe under-nutrition- viability of small scale farms- strategies to augment food availability.The Handbook on Food would be a welcome supplementary text for courses on development economics, particularly those concentrating on agricultural development, climate change and food availability, as well as nutrition.Contributors include: Anshuman Adheleya, Alok Adheleya, M. Das, D. Dawe, O. Ecker, C.L. Gilbert, D. Goswami, J.E. Gready, D. Headey, K.S. Imai, S. Jha, N. Kaicker, S. Kaur, V.S. Kulkarni, A. Mahal, K. Mathur, K. Otsuka, S. Pfuderer, A. Sarris, C. Sathyamala, J. Schmidhuber, P.V. Srinivasan, L. Sutton, G. Thapa, P. Timmer, J.-F. Trinh Tan, F.N. Tubiello, P. Warr, J. YouTrade Review‘The Handbook on Food: Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security makes a significant contribution to academic, policy and public interests in food security. It does not avoid the hard questions, proposes much-needed research direction and policy reform, and most importantly identifies crucial links between food security, poverty, trade, globalisation, environmental sustainability, climate change and the politics that create a complex space. This comprehensive and courageous book is a must-read for those interested in the issue of food security now and in the future.’ -- Dianne Dibley, University of Canberra, Australia‘This volume is a welcome and timely contribution to a topic of enduring importance. The global consequences of recent food price crises underscore the need to examine food security issues from diverse perspectives. This volume meets that need, featuring accessible yet cutting-edge analyses of food security by leading experts in fields as diverse as trade, nutrition, public health, production, political economy, and behavioral economics. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and practitioners.’ -- Steven Block, Tufts University, US‘This excellent volume offers a compact but wide-ranging survey of recent research on important changes in global food markets. Its 20 chapters accurately capture important areas of scholarly agreement as well as on-going debates among economists studying agriculture and nutrition, with several provocative original contributions from other fields. The book draws particularly on the authors’ long experience in Asia, offering widely-applicable insights for scholars and policy analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food around the world.’ -- William A. Masters, Tufts University, US‘This Handbook on Food is highly recommended to scholars, students and policy-makers alike who want to familiarise themselves with recent evidence on the important issue of food security worldwide. It is also welcome supplementary reading for courses on development economics, agricultural economics, and environmental economics. It is a very rich compendium of information on the food situation in general so from that perspective it rightly deserves to be called a Handbook on Food.’ -- Ulrike Grote, Food SecurityTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Overview: Handbook on Food Demand, Supply, Sustainability and Security Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil B. Deolalikar 2. The Political Economy of Food Security: A Behavioral Perspective C. Peter Timmer 3. Shocks to the System: Monitoring Food Security in a Volatile World Derek Headey, Olivier Ecker, and Jean-Francois Trinh Tan 4. Food Price Inflation, Growth and Poverty Shikha Jha and P.V. Srinivasan 5. Transmission of Global Food Prices, Supply Response and Impacts on the Poor David Dawe 6. The Financialization of Food Commodity Markets Christopher L. Gilbert and Simone Pfuderer 7. Financialization of Food Commodity Markets, Price Surge and Volatility: New Evidence Kritika Mathur, Nidhi Kaicker, Raghav Gaiha, Katsushi S. Imai and Ganesh Thapa 8. Dietary Shift and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis based on 50th, 61st and 66th Rounds of NSS Raghav Gaiha, Nidhi Kaicker, Katsushi S. Imai, Vani S. Kulkarni & Ganesh Thapa 9. Dietary Change, Nutrient Transition and Food Security in Fast Growing China Jing You 10. Poverty-Nutrition Traps Raghbendra Jha, Katsushi S. Imai & Raghav Gaiha 11. The Political Economy of Dietary Allowances C. Sathyamala 12. Economic Prosperity and Non-Communicable Disease: Understanding the Linkages Ajay Mahal and Lainie Sutton 13. Trade Food and Welfare Alexander Sarris 14. Enhancing Food Security: Agricultural Productivity, International Trade and Poverty Reduction Peter Warr 15. Best-fit Options of Crop Staples for Food Security: Productivity, Nutrition and Sustainability Jill E. Gready 16. Emissions of Greenhouse Gases from Agriculture and Their Mitigation Francesco N. Tubiello and Josef Schmidhuber 17. Land Degradation, Water Scarcity and Sustainability Manab Das, Debashish Goswami, Anshuman and Alok Adheleya 18. Viability of Small-Scale Farms in Asia Keijiro Otsuka 19. Food Entitlements, Subsidies and Right to Food: A South Asian Perspective Simrit Kaur 20. Global Middle Class and Dietary Patterns: A Sociological Perspective Vani S. Kulkarni Index

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Book SynopsisLisa Clark's scholarly account of the development of the organic movement in the United States and Canada beautifully explains the decades-long transition from understanding organic production as inextricably tied to healthy soils, communities, and social justice ('process-based') to views of organics as meeting certain standards for marketing purposes (product-based). Read this book and you will care deeply about the difference in these views as well as understand current debates about the future of organics.'- Marion Nestle, New York University, US and author of What to Eat'In this fascinating book, Lisa F. Clark presents the history of organic food in North America, from its early roots as a marginal farming activity to its well-established position in today's food market. She analyses political institutions, social movements and corporate actors in how they deal with the delicate question of balancing the search for increasing the market for organic food while maintaining broad organic values. Without offering simple answers to this question, Clark offers important insights into the different approaches to this question. This book is very interesting and highly relevant for anyone interested in organic food in North America and beyond.'- Peter Oosterveer, Wageningen University, the Netherlands'In a globalized food system that struggles to connect the environmental, social, economic and governance dimensions of sustainability, this book provides precious insights. It documents the birth, development and 'mid-age crisis' of the organic movement in North America. The historic lack of clarity between organic principles and practices, and especially the insertion of the organic sector into the global trade regime, have left behind the process-related goal of organic production. Seventy years of lessons, ebbs and flows of a movement searching for an authentic future. A must read for all those interested in sustainable agriculture, institutional challenges faced by value-based movements and visioning organic agriculture pathways.'- Nadia El-Hage Scialabba, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, ItalyThe Changing Politics of Organic Food in North America explores the political dynamics of the remarkable transition of organic food from a 'fringe fad' in the 1960s to a multi-billion dollar industry in the 2000s. Taking a multidisciplinary, institutionalist approach that integrates social movement theory, public policy analysis and value chain analysis, it tells the story of how the organic movement responded to the social, economic and political changes brought on by the rise of industrial agriculture in the twentieth century.This book examines how the changing constellation of actors, institutions and ideas involved in the politics of organic food influenced the evolving goals and principles of the organic movement, including the muting of social and political organic principles in formal policy and the eclipse of the 'process-based' definition of organic by the 'product-based' definition. It discusses the integration of organic food into the globalized food system and how food and agriculture movements have responded to the forces of industrialization and globalization, as well as critically analyzing the vulnerability of social movements that do not address market interactions in their mandates.This timely and impactful book is a theoretical and empirical resource for researchers and advanced students working on organic food, agriculture, comparative public policy analysis, trade policy, institutionalism and social movements, as well as those involved in making food and agriculture policy.Trade Review‘This insightful book will be valuable to those interested in environmental economics, food and agricultural policy, and social movement theory.’ -- Choice‘Lisa Clark’s scholarly account of the development of the organic movement in the United States and Canada beautifully explains the decades-long transition from understanding organic production as inextricably tied to healthy soils, communities, and social justice (“process-based”) to views of organics as meeting certain standards for marketing purposes (product-based). Read this book and you will care deeply about the difference in these views as well as understand current debates about the future of organics.’ -- Marion Nestle, New York University, US and author of What to Eat‘In this fascinating book, Lisa F. Clark presents the history of organic food in North America, from its early roots as a marginal farming activity to its well-established position in today’s food market. She analyses political institutions, social movements and corporate actors in how they deal with the delicate question of balancing the search for increasing the market for organic food while maintaining broad organic values. Without offering simple answers to this question, Clark offers important insights into the different approaches to this question. This book is very interesting and highly relevant for anyone interested in organic food in North America and beyond.’ -- Peter Oosterveer, Wageningen University, the Netherlands‘In a globalized food system that struggles to connect the environmental, social, economic and governance dimensions of sustainability, this book provides precious insights. It documents the birth, development and “mid-age crisis” of the organic movement in North America. The historic lack of clarity between organic principles and practices, and especially the insertion of the organic sector into the global trade regime, have left behind the process-related goal of organic production. Seventy years of lessons, ebbs and flows of a movement searching for an authentic future. A must read for all those interested in sustainable agriculture, institutional challenges faced by value-based movements and visioning organic agriculture pathways.’ -- Nadia El-Hage Scialabba, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy‘Lisa Clark provides a thorough, scholarly accounting of the early beginnings of organic agriculture, how this type of production found support in the new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and the subsequent institutionalization and resultant codification of organic stan-dards into federal-level legislation beginning in the 1990s.’ -- Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental StudiesTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. A Clash of Values: Competing Definitions of Organic 3. Business as Usual? Conventional Corporate Strategies in the Organic Food Sector 4. From Private to Public: Institutionalizing Organic Food Standards into Policy 5. Globalizing Organics: The Role of Trade Agreements and International Organizations in Regulating Trade in Organic Food 6. The Development and Transformation of the Organic Social Movement 7. New Actors, New Directions: The Contemporary Organic Movement as an Advocacy Network 8. Conclusions – Organic Limited Index

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Book SynopsisModern food governance is increasingly hybrid, involving not only government, but also industry and civil society actors. This book deftly analyzes the unfolding interplay between public and private actors in global and local food governance. Split into three parts, chapters focus on the legitimacy and integrity of private food governance, the hybridization of EU Food Law and hybridization in transnational food governance. Within these key areas, food scholars from diverse disciplinary fields present a fascinating array of original empirical case studies, showing hybrid governance arrangements in China, Europe and North America. Through these practical examples, they consider in detail how the responsibilities and risks inherent in these arrangements are allocated, how their legitimacy is ensured and the effect that they have on industry and government practice. Timely and discerning, this book will appeal to legal students and scholars focusing on regulation and governance and, in particular, those considering its relation to food. It will also provide guidance to policymakers on how to shape and direct the trends, types and outcomes of hybrid food governance.Contributors include: D. Casey, E. Fagotto, M. Faure, A. Fearne, M. Garcia, T. Havinga, M. Hussein, A. Kalfagianni, K. Kindji, K. Kirezieva, K. Kottenstede, P. Luning, T.D. Lytton, L.K. McAllister, T.A. Roche, E. Thomann, B.M.J. van der Meulen, P. VerbruggenTable of ContentsContents: 1. Hybridization of food governance: an analytical framework Paul Verbruggen and Tetty Havinga PART I legitimacy and integrity of private food governance 2. Structuring private food governance: GLOBALGAP and the legitimating role of the state and rule intermediaries Donal Casey 3. Resolving gaps in third-party certification for food safety hybridization Elena Fagotto 4. Oversight of private food safety auditing in the United States: A hybrid approach to auditor conflict of interest Timothy D. Lytton and Lesley K. McAllister 5. Hybridity in action: Accountability dilemmas of public and for-profit food safety inspectors in Switzerland Eva Thomann and Fritz Sager PART II Hybridisation of EU Food Law 6. Responsibility in EU food law Bernd M.J. van der Meulen 7. Management-based regulation of food safety in the United Kingdom Mohamud Hussein, Marian Garcia Martinez and Andrew Fearne 8. The influence of context on food safety governance: Bridging the gap between policy and quality management Klementina Kirezieva and Pieternel Luning PART III Hybridisation in transnational food governance 9. The Global Food Safety Initiative and state actors: Paving the way for hybrid food safety governance Tetty Havinga and Paul Verbruggen 10. Transnational private food standards in the People’s Republic: Hybridization with Chinese characteristics Kai Kottenstede 11. Domestic responses to transnational private governance: The Marine Stewardship Council in Alaska, Australia and Ecuador Agni Kalfagianni and Tiffany Andrade Roche 12. Overcoming food safety challenges through regulatory cooperation: Evidence from the UEMOA Kévine Kindji and Michael Faure Index

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Book SynopsisThe ways in which rapid urbanization of the Global South are transforming food systems and food supply chains, and the food security of urban populations is an often neglected topic. This international group of authors addresses this profound transformation from a variety of different perspectives and disciplinary lenses, providing an important corrective to the dominant view that food insecurity is a rural problem requiring increases in agricultural production.Starting from the premise that food security in urban areas is primarily a challenge of food access, the chapters explore the various economic, social, and governance policies and structures that constrain and inhibit the access of all to food of sufficient quantity and quality. As the Global South continues to urbanize, the challenge of feeding hungry cities will become even more daunting, and this Handbook explains why the existing food system, although undergoing rapid change, is inadequate for this task and cannot meet the challenge without substantial reform.The Handbook as a whole, and the individual chapters, provide comprehensive overviews of relevant themes mixed with empirical, real-world examples for university readership teaching and taking courses on food systems, migration and urbanization, urban policy and planning, geography, agricultural economics, public health, and international development. It will also introduce practitioners to current debates in the field and provide strong support for the renewed, and growing, focus on the food security of urban populations.The Handbook's comprehensive overviews of relevant themes mixed with empirical, real-world examples are ideal for university readership. It will also introduce practitioners to current debates in the field and provide strong support for the renewed, and growing, focus on the food security of urban populations.Trade Review'With global rates of food insecurity surging, now more than ever we need to better understand the critical shifts impacting food systems around the world. Including essays from an impressive set of contributors, the Handbook on Urban Food Security in the Global South explores how and why hunger and malnutrition is on the rise in cities across the Global South. This is a must read for food security policymakers, scholars and students.' -- William G. Moseley, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, and Director of the Program for Food, Agriculture & Society, Macalester College, US'This book challenges conventional thinking about food security as primarily a problem of limited food production. It shows the complexity and interconnectedness of urban food security issues, and the power of the globalized industrial food systems that frame the growing food insecurity of cities of the global South. It shows decisively that tackling urban food security demands moving beyond the search for new "green revolutions".' -- Bill Adams, Emeritus Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to urban food security in the Global South 1 Jonathan Crush, Bruce Frayne and Gareth Haysom 2 Food (in)security in rapidly urbanizing, low-income contexts 23 Cecilia Tacoli 3 Food systems transformation in an urbanizing world 34 James Tefft and Marketa Jonasova 4 An impermanent subsidy: Cheap industrial food and the urban margins 62 Tony Weis, Marylynn Steckley and Bruce Frayne 5 Urban/rural differences in stunting and obesity : Trends for low-income and middle-income countries 79 Susan Horton 6 Scales of (in)action at the climate change–food security nexus in cities 94 Carrie L. Mitchell, Joanne Fitzgibbons, Kristen Regier and Siya Agarwal 7 The “supermarket revolution” in the South 113 Reena das Nair 8 Urbanization and the quiet revolution in the midstream of agrifood value chains 145 Thomas Reardon 9 Food systems at the rural–urban interface 166 Felicity J. Proctor and Julio A. Berdegué 10 The urban informal food sector in the Global South 198 Graeme Young and Jonathan Crush 11 The gender–urban-food interface in the Global South 218 Liam Riley and Belinda Dodson 12 Urban agriculture in low-income and middle-income countries 233 Piero Conforti, Giulia Ponzini and Alberto Zezza 13 Urban food security and South–South migration to cities of the Global South 261 Abel Chikanda, Jonathan Crush and Godfrey Tawodzera 14 Food remittances and food security 282 Jonathan Crush and Mary Caesar 15 Industrialization, food safety and urban food security in the Global South 307 Jodi Koberinski, Zhenzhong Si and Steffanie Scott 16 Food waste and the growth of food banks in the Global South 328 Daniel N. Warshawsky 17 The planned “city region” in the New Urban Agenda : An appropriate framing for urban food security? 341 Jane Battersby and Vanessa Watson 18 Perspectives on urban food-system governance in the Global South 363 Gareth Haysom 19 Urban food systems and diets, nutrition, and health of the poor : Challenges, opportunities, and research gaps 380 Marie T. Ruel, Jef L. Leroy, Olivier Ecker, Manuel Hernandez, Danielle Resnick and James Thurlow Index 397

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Book SynopsisLarge-scale socio-economic, political and structural changes characterize contemporary agriculture and food today. This Handbook provides an essential overview to help readers understand the future evolution of agri-food through an analysis of the economy in key regions around the world.Along with chapters that investigate agri-food in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Oceania, the book includes contributions that cover topics such as labor, science and technology, the financialization of agri-food, and supermarkets.This Handbook will be required reading for researchers, scholars and students in the social sciences looking to learn more about agriculture and food. Policy makers and industry leaders interested in agri-food will also find this to be an insightful read.Contributors: G. Aboites, C. Bain, J.S. Barbosa Cavalcanti, M.Belo Moreira, B. Bock, A. Bonanno, B. Brandl, L. Busch, I. Cucco, T. Dandachi, M. del Rosario Castro Bernardini, J. Dixon, M. Etxezarreta, M. Fairbairn, M. Fonte, L. Glenna, L. Horlings, K. Jones, E.E. Krone, G. Lawrence, F. Martinez, M. Miele, G. Otero, A. Patel-Campillo, G. Pechlaner, E. Ransom, J. Rosell, C. Sachs, K. Sekine, L. ViladomiuTrade Review'This Handbook makes an important contribution to agrifood studies. Departing from more generalized analyses of globalization and neo-liberalism we are presented with a rich range of country level and thematic studies by highly respected authors. In this way, common trends are subjected to the detailed scrutiny of individual Nation States both in the North and the South, unwrapping the heterogeneous forces at work in each. The thematic section in its focus on key issues and actors similarly exposes the complex tendencies often hidden by more generalized accounts of the global agrifood system. Political economy at its best!' --John Wilkins, Graduate Center for Development, Agriculture and Society, Rural Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD: AN INTRODUCTION Alessandro Bonanno and Lawrence Busch PART I THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD: SELECTED COUNTRIES AND REGIONS 1. The Political Economy of Agriculture in Southern Africa Elizabeth Ransom 2. “100% Pure”? Private Governance Efforts to Mitigate the Effects of ‘Dirty Dairying on New Zealand’s Environment Carmen Bain and Tamera Dandachi 3. The Political Economy of Agri-Food in Mexico Francisco Martinez and Gilberto Aboites 4. Argentina’s Agrifood Transformations in the Context of Globalization: Changing Ways of Farming Clara Craviotti 5. The Political Economy of Agriculture in Colombia: An Unfinished Business Anouk Patel-Campillo and María del Rosario Castro Bernardini 6. Brazilian Farmers, Quality and Markets Josefa Salete Barbosa Cavalcanti and Evander Eloi Krone 7. The Political Economy of Agriculture and Food in North America: Toward Convergence or Divergence? Gabriela Pechlaner and Gerardo Otero 8. Transition of Agriculture and Agricultural Policies in Japan: From Postwar to the Neoliberal Era Kae Sekine 9. The European Common Agriculture Policy: a Tale of Slow Adjustment to Neoliberal Globalization Manuel Belo Moreira 10. An Overview of Spanish Agriculture in the 21st Century Miren Etxezarreta, Jordi Rosell and Lourdes Viladomiu PART II SELECTED THEMES OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD 11. The Political Economy of Agri-Food: Supermarkets Geoffrey Lawrence and Jane Dixon 12. Finance and the Food System Madeleine Fairbairn 13. The Political Economy of Labor Relations in Agriculture and Food Alessandro Bonanno 14. The Political Economy of Alternative Agriculture in Italy Maria Fonte and Ivan Cucco 15. Animal Welfare: the Challenges of Implementing a Common Legislation in Europe Mara Miele, Bettina Bock and Lummina Horlings 16. International Political Economy of Agricultural Research and Development Leland Glenna, Barbara Brandl, and Kristal Jones 17. Gender and the International Political Economy of Agri-Food Carolyn Sachs Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation. The Handbook presents critical analyses of, and examines controversies about, historical and contemporary social structures and processes in agrarian and rural settings from a wide range of perspectives. Chapters explore the origins of critical agrarian studies, the concepts underpinning the diverse theoretical approaches to the field, and the strengths and weaknesses of different methodologies used within the field. Finally, it illuminates debates around the topic and trajectories for future research and development. This will be a vital resource for graduate students, scholars and activists interested in critical agrarian studies. The analytical and empirical insights will also be helpful to students of environmental and development studies as well as agricultural and development economics, human geography and socio-cultural anthropology.Trade Review‘This impressive Handbook captures and reflects the vibrancy of, and will propel further, the rapidly expanding field of critical agrarian studies. It is an indispensable reference in the field for students, teachers, researchers, policy experts, and activists.’ -- Saturnino M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Peasant Studies‘The Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies is a magnificent field-building achievement. Ambitious and comprehensive, it marks the coming of age of critical agrarian studies, with first-rate contributions from foundational thinkers and emerging stars on everything from agroecology and land, to financialization, territoriality, extractivism, migrant labour, and dozens of other topics.’ -- Marc Edelman, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York‘Critical agrarian studies is not a sentimental journey into the past but ways of rethinking how the dynamics of agrarian change reflect and shape some of the most important issues of our time. In these creative and thoughtful short chapters, leading scholars provide new angles on familiar questions such as land ownership, the ways we eat, agrarian extractivism, ecological crisis and rural social movements and on many new issues as well. Authors also lead readers through current debates and introduce them to the particular methodological problems of agrarian studies.’ -- Bridget O’Laughlin, International Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands and Co-Editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change'The Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies is an excellent and solid work that takes us through the foundational and current debates of this research field, its main concepts and methodological approaches, the intersection of the agrarian question with environmental, territorial, techno-science and financialization issues, among other topics. An essential reference book.’ -- Carla Gras, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina‘This Handbook will surely become the point of departure for anyone planning research on agrarian issues from a critical perspective. The 72 contributions – most by well-regarded experts in the field—provide both succinct literature reviews and substantive insight on a broad range of relevant topics. Some of the chapters, such as on The Agrarian Question, Land Grabs, and Feasible Utopias are superb. Whether for clarification of key concepts or to grasp the contours of current debates, the Handbook will be useful to students, researchers, those teaching in the field, as well as policy advocates and activists.’ -- Carmen Diana Deere, University of Florida, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xxiii Tania Murray Li Acknowledgements xxv 1 An introduction to the Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies 1 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels and Ben M. McKay PART I ORIGINS 2 Frontiers, regimes and learning from history 9 Ulbe Bosma and Eric Vanhaute 3 Origins of peasant studies 15 Harriet Friedmann 4 The diversity of classical agrarian Marxism 25 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristóbal Kay 5 Debates on the historical origins of agrarian capitalism 34 Xavier Lafrance 6 An alternative perspective on the agrarian question in Europe and in the developing countries 45 Utsa Patnaik PART II CONCEPTS 7 The agrarian question 53 Michael Watts 8 Class 67 Sara Berry 9 Land 72 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi 10 Frontiers: Commodification and territorialization 80 Mattias Borg Rasmussen and Christian Lund 11 Labour 91 Jonathan Pattenden 12 Labor and social reproduction 99 Smriti Rao 13 Peasants 109 Jan Douwe van der Ploeg 14 Gender 120 Avanti Mukherjee 15 Gender, nature, body 131 Andrea J. Nightingale and Wendy Harcourt 16 Kinship 139 Pauline E. Peters 17 Generation 150 Ben White 18 Intersectionality 157 Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Markus Ihalainen and Bimbika Sijapati Basnett 19 Merchant and usurer’s capital 165 John Harriss 20 Agricultural markets 171 Muhammad Ali Jan and Barbara Harriss-White 21 Financialization 178 Jennifer Clapp and S. Ryan Isakson 22 Agrarian law 187 Sergio Coronado 23 Territoriality 197 Annie Shattuck and Nancy Lee Peluso 24 Agrarian/land reform 205 Ben Cousins 25 Food regimes 218 Philip McMichael 26 Crisis 232 Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson and A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi 27 Food sovereignty, food security and the right to food 238 Priscilla Claeys, Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Jasber Singh PART III METHODOLOGIES 28 Qualitative research 251 Elisa Greco 29 Quantitative analysis 258 J. Paul Dunne 30 Geographical research 266 Oliver Pye 31 Questions and answers 272 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi PART IV REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 32 The agrarian question in Africa: Past, present and future 279 Samir Amin 33 Social movements in times of extractivism: The ecoterritorial turn in Latin America 285 Maristella Svampa 34 Agrarian change in China: Historical origins and competing perspectives 296 Qian Forrest Zhang 35 Beyond confrontation: Silent growers, symbiosis and subtle peasantness in post-socialist Eurasia 305 Oane Visser, Brian Kuns and Petr Jehlička 36 BRICS and global agrarian transformations 316 Gustavo de L.T. Oliveira and Ben M. McKay 37 Neoliberalism and the crisis in India’s countryside 324 Prabhat Patnaik 38 Crises of capitalism in the countryside: Debates from the South 334 Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros PART V DEBATES 39 Land grabs 346 Ariane Goetz 40 Water for agriculture 357 Larry A. Swatuk 41 Biofuels 366 Carol Hunsberger 42 Industrial fisheries and oceanic accumulation 374 Elizabeth Havice and Liam Campling 43 Forests and current transitions 387 Markus Kröger 44 Artisanal and small-scale mining 401 Boris Verbrugge and Robin Thiers 45 Footloose labour 410 John Harriss 46 Contract farming 416 Helena Pérez Niño and Carlos Oya 47 Biotechnology 427 Matthew A. Schnurr and Lincoln Addison 48 Agroecology 438 Nils McCune and Peter Rosset 49 Identities and culture in the rural world 453 Nicholas Copeland 50 Everyday politics in agrarian societies 463 Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet 51 The state and rural politics 469 Leandro Vergara-Camus 52 Experts, land regimes and the politics of mapping 480 Facundo Martín 53 Rural social movements/transnational agrarian movements 491 Giuliano Martiniello 54 Industrial agriculture and agrarian extractivism 503 Ben M. McKay and Henry Veltmeyer 55 Rural dispossession and capital accumulation 515 Derek Hall 56 Ecological crises in the rural world 525 Marcus Taylor 57 Microfinance and rural financial inclusion 536 Marcus Taylor 58 Rural indebtedness 547 Julien-François Gerber 59 The neoliberal diet 556 Gerardo Otero 60 Meatification 561 Tony Weis 61 Digital agriculture 568 Kristina Dietz and Franza Drechsel 62 COVID-19 581 A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi PART VI TRAJECTORIES 63 The interface of critical development studies and critical agrarian studies 594 Henry Veltmeyer 64 Political ecology 601 Kristina Dietz 65 Pluriloguing postcolonial studies and critical agrarian studies 610 Johanna Leinius 66 Agrarian justice: Land, human rights and democratization 620 Jennifer C. Franco and Sofía Monsalve Suárez 67 Strategic linkages between STS and critical agrarian studies 630 Ryan Nehring 68 The Capitalocene response to the Anthropocene 636 Kees Jansen and Joost Jongerden 69 Degrowth in agrarian and fisheries studies 647 Arnim Scheidel, Irmak Ertör and Federico Demaria 70 Reconfiguring the intersection between urban food movements and agrarian struggles: Building an urban political agroecology praxis 656 Chiara Tornaghi and Severin Halder 71 Radical transformation: Creating alternatives to capitalism in the countryside 666 Kristina Dietz and Bettina Engels 72 Feasible utopias 676 Ray Bush Index 689

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Book SynopsisWhen people think of Russian food they generally think either of opulent luxury, signified above all by caviar, or of poverty and hunger – of cabbage and potatoes and porridge. Both of these visions have a basis in reality, but both of them are incomplete. The history of food and drink in Russia includes hunger and it includes plenty, it includes scarcity and, for some, at least, abundance. It includes dishes that came out of the northern, forested regions and ones that incorporate foods from the wider Russian Empire and later from the Soviet Union. Cabbage and Caviar places Russian food and drink in the context of Russian history, and shows off the incredible (and largely unknown) variety of Russian food.Trade Review“At a moment when Russian cuisine is ascendant—with critically acclaimed restaurants, celebrity chefs, and popular cookbooks—there is no better guide to its thousand-year history than Smith’s Cabbage and Caviar. In a book that is both erudite and accessible, Smith again shows herself to be one of the world’s foremost scholars of Russian food and drink.” -- Stephen V. Bittner, author of “Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar”“Smith's overview of Russia's food history, spanning several centuries, will be useful to readers encountering this topic for the first time, as well as culinary historians interested in the evolution of Russian cuisine.” -- Sharon Hudgins, author of “T-Bone Whacks and Caviar Snacks: Cooking with Two Texans in Siberia and the Russian Far East”“A sumptuous survey of twelve centuries of Russian history through the prism of food, Cabbage and Caviar offers up a brilliant account of eating, drinking, and food producing through the ages. With her analysis of the worlds of princes, peasants, townsfolk, and commissars, Smith shows how foodways both blurred and reinforced social distinctions, whether in in times of aspirational plenty or of tragic famine. A feast for the eyes as well as the culinary imagination, Smith’s book treats us to mouth-watering recipes and a vivid appreciation for the richness and diversity of Russia’s everyday life.” -- Diane P. Koenker, Director and Professor of Russian and Soviet History, University College London

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Book SynopsisEating and drinking are essential to survival. Yet for human animals, they are intrinsically ambivalent, proliferating with ideological, historical and psychological leftovers. This study reveals and mobilizes the provisional meanings, repressed experiences and unacknowledged tensions bound up with representations of food, drink and their consumption. It creates a flexible critical framework by bringing together an unexploited convergence of post-war French thinkers who use – or whose thought is legible through – figures of eating and drinking, including Barthes, Bataille, Beauvoir, Bourdieu, Certeau, Cixous, Derrida, Fischler, Giard, Kristeva, Lacan, Lefebvre, Lévi-Strauss, Mayol and Sartre. New combinations emerge for elucidating the intersecting effects of incorporation; constructs of class, gender and racial difference; bad faith; distinction; secondary ideological signifying systems; provisional meanings bound up with linguistic traces; economies of excess; everyday ‘making-do’; the ethics of consuming the other; the return of the repressed; lack; abjection; and notions of ‘eating on the sly’, ‘mother’s milk’, the ‘omnivore’s paradox’ and ‘gastro-anomie’. The vast possibilities for re-thinking with eating and drinking are further exemplified in case studies of novels in which – often beyond authorial intentions – food and drink are structurally important and interpretatively plural. These are Robbe-Grillet’s Les Gommes/The Erasers (1953); Ernaux’s Les Armoires vides/Cleaned Out (1974); Darrieussecq’s Truismes/Pig Tales (1996); and Houellebecq’s La Carte et le territoire/The Map and the Territory (2010). New understandings of post-war French cultural production are revealed in these case studies. But above all, the analyses demonstrate the potential for literary, comparative, cultural, film, gender and food studies of re-thinking with eating and drinking across genres, periods and places.Trade Review'The discussion in this book engages with and extends current debates in its field but more importantly the deployment of the trope of ‘leftovers’ as an analytical tool is really innovative and exciting.' Kathryn Robson, Newcastle University‘The wide-ranging implications of food and drink that Cruickshank analyzes make this book essential reading for all students and scholars.' Jennifer L. Holm, GastronomicaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction – Tapping the Critical Potential of Representations of Eating and DrinkingChapter 1 – (Re-)Thinking with Eating and DrinkingChapter 2 – Re-thinking the Story: Food, Drink and Interpretation in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Les Gommes/The ErasersChapter 3 – Feeding and Reading Ambivalence: Incorporating Difference in Annie Ernaux’s Les Armoires vides/Cleaned OutChapter 4 – Food Questioning Values in Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes/Pig TalesChapter 5 – Weighing up the Potential of Literary Consumption: Feeding on Scraps in Michel Houellebecq’s La Carte et le territoire/The Map and the TerritoryConclusion – Taking Leftovers OnBibliography

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Book SynopsisReadings on the Anthropology of Food: Cuisine, Culture, and Power provides students with a collection of articles that emphasize the close relationship between history, culture, and power in shaping the options that most people face globally in terms of the varieties of food systems. The readings critique the industrialist capitalist food system, evaluate alternative systems, and address critical themes such as GMOs, the mythology of natural food shortages, tourism, and climate change.The anthology is arranged into six units: Nationalism and Food, Work and Food, Theories of Food, Politics and Food, Tourism and Food, and Climate Change. Students read about the interplay between food and identity, child labour in the food industry, the social meanings of coffee, wine tourism, plant-based proteins, food inequality, and much more. Each unit features an editor's introduction and discussion questions to emphasize key concepts and spark lively discussion.Designed to highlight an often-overlooked aspect of our food systems--the people behind them, Readings on the Anthropology of Food is an ideal primary or supplementary textbook for courses that explore the social, cultural, and political issues related to food.

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Book SynopsisThis Modern Guide provides detailed theoretical and empirical insights into key areas of research in food economics. It takes a forward-looking perspective on how different actors in the food system shape the sustainability of food production, distribution, and consumption, as well as on major challenges to efficient and inclusive food systems.Analysing the main characteristics of modern food markets, chapters introduce readers to the economics of food systems, product differentiation, the mediating role of food retailers, and the increasing significance and complexity of international trade in food. Encapsulating new methods in the study of food economics and policy, this Modern Guide explores changes in food value chains and consumption. It further pushes the boundaries of food economics to include economic perspectives on the role of social media and technology such as genomics in shaping food systems.Offering key insights into the state-of-the-art debates in the field, this Modern Guide will be critical reading for graduate students and researchers of food economics. It will also be a timely book for practitioners in the field wishing to take a fresh look at issues shaping food systems.Trade Review‘Food systems today reflect new technologies in food production and distribution, and consumers’ demand for a broad range of attributes in food. Conditions that promote innovation and enhance information are key to the markets that have emerged. A Modern Guide to Food Economics provides new insights into economic models, data, and analytics for understanding the increasingly complex food environment today.’ -- Helen H. Jensen, Iowa State University, US‘A Modern Guide to Food Economics edited by Jutta Roosen and Jill E. Hobbs will be a must-read for all of us who are working on the topic. The carefully edited book, with contributions from leading scholars, covers the new developments in food economics including food systems, regulatory issues, and more.’ -- Justus Wesseler, Wageningen University, the Netherlands‘The Modern Guide is an excellent collection of essays on the modern state of the art in food economics that is an invaluable resource for researchers, students, and individuals interested in understanding and changing the modern food system.’ -- Jayson Lusk, Purdue University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to A Modern Guide to Food Economics 1 Jutta Roosen and Jill E. Hobbs PART I CHANGES IN THE FOOD SYSTEM 1 The economics of food systems 7 David Zilberman 2 The supplier–retailer relationship in contemporary food markets 23 Alessandro Bonanno and Metin .akır 3 Product differentiation in food 47 Jill J. McCluskey and Jason A. Winfree 4 Technical regulation of agri-food trade 62 David Orden, Caesar B. Cororaton and Khadija Rouchdi PART II CHALLENGES WITH REGARD TO SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH 5 The economics of the nutrition and sustainable diet transition 89 Xavier Irz and Mario Mazzocchi 6 Health-oriented nutrition policies 113 Jill E. Hobbs and Jutta Roosen 7 The economics of food loss and waste 144 Brenna Ellison and Mary K. Muth 8 Food safety and traceability 170 James Mitchell, Lee Schulz and Glynn Tonsor PART III DEVELOPMENTS IN METHODS AND DATA 9 Behavioural economics, policy interventions and food 193 David R. Just 10 Discrete choice models and continuous demand systems in the scanner data age 215 Beatrice Biondi, Sara Capacci and Mario Mazzocchi 11 Recent developments in inference: practicalities for applied economics 235 Jeffrey D. Michler and Anna Josephson PART IV NEW ISSUES 12 Who reacts to food taxes? How a multiple-selves model can help to explain the effects of food taxes 270 Sinne Smed, Chiara Lombardini and Leena Lankoski 13 Food, beverages, and social media: trends and tools for economic research 297 Sean B. Cash, Saleem Alhabash, Gabriela Fretes and Mengyan Ma 14 How the use of genomics may continue to influence consumer behaviour 327 Ellen Goddard Index 352

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Book SynopsisEvents such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have drawn the subject of food security firmly into the public eye. This timely Handbook examines and responds to this pertinent topic, offering calculated solutions to food insecurity. Exploring an international range of perspectives surrounding food security, the Handbook of Food Security and Society illustrates clear links between food and broader social welfare policy and economic determinants. Chapters describe histories of food security, its measurement and question the role of movements, such as charitable organisations, that have been involved in the food security debate. They resolutely locate food welfare as a fundamental human right. This comprehensive Handbook will be essential for politics, economics and social policy academics and researchers seeking to gain a clearer understanding of food security history and policy. It will additionally be beneficial to specific practitioners, such as nutritionists and policy makers, working to understand key connections between welfare strategies, wellbeing and food security.Trade Review‘What a fantastic and accessible tomb of rich, conceptual insights on this crucial topic. Featuring an incredible line-up of international researchers and activists, this Handbook is a timely, comprehensive collection providing a critical, yet pragmatic, overview of food insecurity. It transcends diverse conceptions, cultures and theories, encompassing the scope of research, practice and policy solutions to tackle this intractable issue. An excellent and very accessible pedagogic guide, suitable for educators, researchers, activists or citizens, all working tirelessly to promote food justice, fairness and equity within our food system.’ -- Clare Pettinger, University of Plymouth, UK‘This Handbook argues convincingly that ending hunger means far more than providing food to those in need. It means transforming society to one that is more equitable, socially as well as economically. The chapters here are a rich source of data, analysis, and inspiration about how to work towards that transformation - and the sooner, the better.’ -- Marion Nestle, New York University, US‘It is my pleasure to endorse the Handbook of Food Security and Society. Edited by international experts and with valuable contributions from leading researchers and practitioners in their fields, it provides critical analyses of relevant topics with examples of practice necessary to promote food security within and across societies.’ -- Mark Lawrence, Deakin University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiv Introduction to the Handbook of Food Security and Society 1 Martin Caraher, John Coveney and Mickey Chopra PART I BACKGROUND CHAPTERS 1 ‘The past is not dead’: hunger and famine in Ireland 27 Christine Kinealy 2 Hunger is a crime: why words matter 38 Andy Fisher 3 Challenging corporate charity: food commons as a response to food insecurity 48 Tara Kenny and Colin Sage PART II THE RIGHT TO FOOD 4 Championing the right to food in South Africa: the Dullah Omar experience 58 Ebenezer Durojaye and Aisosa Jennifer Omoruyi 5 Food as a right in addressing food insecurity: a case study from Scotland 72 Pete Ritchie and Chelsea Marshall PART III MEASURES AND MEASUREMENT 6 Nutrition measures and limits: the dominance of the USDA’s Food Insecurity and Hunger Module and its adaptations 84 Sinéad Furey and Emma Beacom 7 Comparative analysis of the measurement of food insecurity and implications for policy 98 Catherine Littler, Susan Belyea, Jennifer Brady and Elaine Power 8 Food and nutrition standards to address food insecurity 107 Christina Pollard, Sharonna Mossenson and Sue Booth 9 What are the lived experiences of people who are food insecure? 118 Danielle Gallegos and Rhonda Dryland 10 Tracking the extent and drivers of food insecurity and their effects on malnutrition syndemic in South Africa 128 Zandile J. Mchiza, Yul D. Davids and Laurentia J. Opperman 11 Gender and food security: cross cutting or crossed out? The challenge of implementing ‘Gender Just’ food security solutions 144 Regina Murphy Keith PART IV EXAMPLES OF POLICY AND PRACTICE 12 Can the Alma Ata principles of equity, governance and voice be used to balance the rising power of international corporations in global nutrition governance? 162 Regina Murphy Keith 13 Food security lessons from exemplars in stunting reduction 182 Jamal Yearwood, Nadia Akseer, Goutham Kandru and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta 14 The financialization of agricultural commodities: implications for food security 200 S. Ryan Isakson, Jennifer Clapp and Phoebe Stephens 15 The role of financial markets in promoting food security 213 Lee Hodgkinson 16 Global philanthropy and welfare capitalism: private-sector approaches to food insecurity 229 Martin Caraher 17 The COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa: examples of practical solutions to address food insecurity among the vulnerable citizens 240 Zandile J. Mchiza, Yul D. Davids, Laurentia J. Opperman and Benjamin J. Roberts 18 Food insecurity policy in Brazil: responses and challenges 254 Manuela Mika Jomori, Bruna Leal Lima Maciel, Sílvia Aparecida Zimmermann and Martin Caraher 19 Response to the food insecurity crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study from Colombia 275 Martha Alicia Cadavid Castro, Lorena Patricia Mancilla Lopez, Luis Alirio López Giraldo, Pablo Andres Maya Duque, Briana Davahiva Gómez Ramirez and Juan Camilo Sánchez Gil 20 Government and food banks food security policy governance: Australian and United States COVID-19 responses 283 Sue Booth, Claire Pulker and Christina Pollard 21 Smart farming for food security and sustainability: facing the dilemma of small companies; the Siena Food Lab Project 294 Cristina Santini, Alessio Cavicchi, Simone Cresti, Cristiana Tozzi and Angelo Riccaboni 22 The cooperation dilemma: can agricultural cooperatives sustainably survive in a globalised food system while contributing to food security? 308 Raquel Ajates 23 Emergency feeding in America: making words and deeds actually matter 321 Greg Silverman PART V CONCLUSION 24 The intransigence of food insecurity: questioning the realities 331 Tim Lang Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Illuminating the global food system as a highly dynamic set of interconnecting interests and sub-systems that drives rapid technological, societal, and cultural change, this cutting-edge Research Agenda examines the pressing issues that confront food systems, and the emerging responses to them.Chapters from internationally renowned specialists address the pressing issues facing food systems, including the growing concentration and power of large agri-food corporations, the contribution of food production to climate breakdown, the exploitation of agricultural labour, food poverty, and the reconfiguration of animal bodies. Reviewing possible ‘solutions’ chapters then examine the potential for a digital agricultural revolution, the contribution of alternative proteins in dietary change, and the emergence of regionalized and regenerative food systems. The book concludes with a look towards hybrid foodscapes, exploring how design can help us to re-imagine our stake in food systems of the future. Interdisciplinary, holistic, and accessible in its approach, this innovative book will prove vital to students and scholars engaged in the study of food – from production to consumption – as well as those concerned with policymaking in the fields of public health and nutrition, food governance, sustainability, and environmental advocacy.Trade Review‘In a lucid and timely call for new research, Colin Sage has curated chapters from leading food scholars on major issues affecting the global food system, and offers hope that both pragmatic and visionary solutions are emerging, which will benefit from a targeted research agenda. Sage’s book is vital, compelling reading for students, scientists, and the wider world of people concerned about our future food system.’ -- Molly D. Anderson, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and Middlebury College, US‘A clarion call to anyone desiring more sustainable and just food systems, emphasizing such outcomes cannot be had without insights from the social sciences. The chapters interrogate barriers and opportunities for change; analyses that are as comprehensive as they are enjoyable to read.’ -- Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, US‘This is a fine and wonderful book. We know that food systems worldwide have been transformed in recent decades. They have made food a raging success, more people fed than ever. They also cause vast ill-health and planetary harm, and leave hundreds of millions of people still hungry. This is a book about the urgent need for redesign and collective action. It brings vital clarity to the right questions, and shows how improvements in social justice can occur.’ -- Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: The urgency of food systems research xiii Tim Lang Acknowledgements xix PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction: A Research Agenda for Food Systems 3 Colin L. Sage PART II ISSUES 2 The rise of big food and agriculture: corporate influence in the food system 45 Jennifer Clapp 3 The food system, planetary boundaries and eating for 1.5°C: the case for mutualism and commensality within a safe and just operating space for humankind 67 Colin L. Sage 4 Agricultural labour in the global food system 89 Alicia Reigada and Carlos de Castro 5 Food systems and food poverty 111 Martin Caraher 6 Reconfiguring animals in food systems: an agenda for research 129 Lewis Holloway PART III ‘SOLUTIONS?’ 7 The fourth agricultural revolution: technological developments in primary food production 151 David Christian Rose, Mondira Bhattacharya, Auvikki de Boon, Ram Kiran Dhulipala, Catherine Price and Juliette Schillings 8 Of fake meat and an anxious Anthropocene: towards a cultural political economy of alternative proteins and their implications for future food systems 175 Alexandra E. Sexton and Michael K. Goodman 9 Urban food systems: the case for municipal action 199 Jess Halliday 10 Circular food systems: a blueprint for regenerative innovations in a regional UK context 221 Steffen Böhm, Rebecca Sandover, Stefano Pascucci, Laura Colombo, Sophie Jackson and Matt Lobley 11 Design at the end of the food system: hybrid foodscapes in the realm of consumption 243 Kata Fodor Index 259

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Book SynopsisThis visionary book takes stock of the urgent challenges facing food chains globally and provides a critical evaluation of radical new thinking and perspectives on agricultural and food policy. Wyn Grant investigates the principal drivers of change in food and agriculture, including globalization, climate change, the structure of the industry, changing patterns of consumer demand and new technologies.Rethinking Agricultural and Food Policy provides a comprehensive account of the contemporary challenges impacting the food chain. Chapters explore the various barriers towards positive progress, exposing the deficiency of institutional architecture at a domestic and international level and examining how attempts to reform and revitalize it encounter inertia, embedded production structures, defenders of the status quo and vested interests. Proposing that a holistic, interdisciplinary approach is essential in making progress towards revitalizing policy and encouraging innovation in international governance, Wyn Grant calls for a new agenda to deliver real and necessary change and offer hope for the planet and its people. Using critical insights from natural and social science to uphold its calls for a holistic, integrated approach to agricultural and food policy, this timely book will be an essential read for policy makers, as well as students taking undergraduate or postgraduate courses in agriculture, food and the environment.Trade Review‘Food – what we eat and how it is produced – has become a hot button issue. In this book, Wyn Grant draws on his deep knowledge and experience of agricultural and food policies to provide an up-to-date and accessible introduction to the policies and politics of food. This book enriches the contemporary debate on transforming our food system by systematically outlining the challenges it faces and exploring the changes that are required.’ -- Alan Matthews, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction: what needs to be rethought? 2. How food reaches the plate: the structure of the food chain 3. Consumer demand and producer responses 4. Globalization 5. The role of the state 6. Plant and animal health and welfare 7. Climate change 8. Conclusions: selecting priorities References Index

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Book SynopsisEating and drinking are essential to survival. Yet for human animals, they are intrinsically ambivalent, proliferating with ideological, historical and psychological leftovers. This study reveals and mobilizes the provisional meanings, repressed experiences and unacknowledged tensions bound up with representations of food, drink and their consumption. It creates a flexible critical framework by bringing together an unexploited convergence of post-war French thinkers who use – or whose thought is legible through – figures of eating and drinking, including Barthes, Bataille, Beauvoir, Bourdieu, Certeau, Cixous, Derrida, Fischler, Giard, Kristeva, Lacan, Lefebvre, Lévi-Strauss, Mayol and Sartre. New combinations emerge for elucidating the intersecting effects of incorporation; constructs of class, gender and racial difference; bad faith; distinction; secondary ideological signifying systems; provisional meanings bound up with linguistic traces; economies of excess; everyday ‘making-do’; the ethics of consuming the other; the return of the repressed; lack; abjection; and notions of ‘eating on the sly’, ‘mother’s milk’, the ‘omnivore’s paradox’ and ‘gastro-anomie’. The vast possibilities for re-thinking with eating and drinking are further exemplified in case studies of novels in which – often beyond authorial intentions – food and drink are structurally important and interpretatively plural. These are Robbe-Grillet’s Les Gommes/The Erasers (1953); Ernaux’s Les Armoires vides/Cleaned Out (1974); Darrieussecq’s Truismes/Pig Tales (1996); and Houellebecq’s La Carte et le territoire/The Map and the Territory (2010). New understandings of post-war French cultural production are revealed in these case studies. But above all, the analyses demonstrate the potential for literary, comparative, cultural, film, gender and food studies of re-thinking with eating and drinking across genres, periods and places.Trade Review'The discussion in this book engages with and extends current debates in its field but more importantly the deployment of the trope of ‘leftovers’ as an analytical tool is really innovative and exciting.' Kathryn Robson, Newcastle University‘The wide-ranging implications of food and drink that Cruickshank analyzes make this book essential reading for all students and scholars.' Jennifer L. Holm, GastronomicaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction – Tapping the Critical Potential of Representations of Eating and DrinkingChapter 1 – (Re-)Thinking with Eating and DrinkingChapter 2 – Re-thinking the Story: Food, Drink and Interpretation in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Les Gommes/The ErasersChapter 3 – Feeding and Reading Ambivalence: Incorporating Difference in Annie Ernaux’s Les Armoires vides/Cleaned OutChapter 4 – Food Questioning Values in Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes/Pig TalesChapter 5 – Weighing up the Potential of Literary Consumption: Feeding on Scraps in Michel Houellebecq’s La Carte et le territoire/The Map and the TerritoryConclusion – Taking Leftovers OnBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume of essays surveys gastronomy across global literary modernisms. Modernists explore public and domestic spaces where food and drink are prepared and served, as much as they create them in the modernist imagination through narrative, language, verse, and style. Modernism as a cultural and artistic movement also highlights the historical politics of food and eating. As the chapters in Gastro-Modernism reveal, critical trends in food studies alert us to many social concerns that emerge in the modernist period because of expanding food literacy and culture. The result is that food production, consumption, and scarcity are abiding themes in modernist literature and culture, reflecting tensions amidst colonial, agricultural, and industrial settings. This timely volume ultimately shows how global literary modernisms engage with food culture known as gastronomy to express anxieties about modernity as much as to celebrate the excesses modern lifestyles produce.Trade ReviewReviews ‘Contributing to an increasingly expanding field, the essays collected in Gastro-modernism explore the personal, collective, political, historical, and aesthetic role of food in a range of modernist works. Gladwin’s collection constitutes a highly useful and readable resource for students and scholars interested in the insightful, sometimes latent, sometimes overt, but always fascinating intersections and connection between food studies and literary modernist studies.’ Maria Christou, University of Manchester, author of Eating Otherwise: The Philosophy of Food in Twentieth Century Literature‘In Gastro-modernism¸ the landscapes of literary modernism become fascinating foodscapes, compelling us to examine its literary, artistic, and epistemic forms anew. There is a lot on the menu here. The domestic dinner party in Woolf’s writing, the synesthetic pleasures of Joyce’s prose, the starving artist of Mina Loy’s work, and the food memoirs of MFK Fisher are only a few of the many offerings. Importantly for students and scholards of the period, this collection is cognizant of significant developments in food studies relating to eco-modernism, modernist gender studies, and postcolonial-modernism, which inform its wide range of essays. Indeed, Gastro-modernism, itself an important key term that frames the essays, is sure to change the way we approach the field at large.’ Gitanjali Shahani, San Francisco State University, author of Tasting Difference and editor of Food and LiteratureThe emergent modernist food studies which [Gastro-Modernism] represent[s] then is very much of its moment and is a logical next step in our continued critical exploration of the legacy of new modernist studies and its political, cross-cultural, and material turn. Rebecca Bowler, Modernism/modernity‘Collections like Gastro-Modernism and others in the latest boom demonstrate the potential for modernist food studies as they sow generative connections and enrich subfields far more effectively than keeping the same canonical texts and authors in their separate silos.’ Jessica Martell, James Joyce Quarterly Table of ContentsIntroduction: Modernism and Gastronomy (Derek Gladwin) Part 1: Culture and Consumption 1. Sweet Bean Jam and Excrement: Food, Humor, and Gender in Osaki Midori’s Writings (Tomoko Aoyama) 2. What Is Eating For?: Food and Function in James Joyce’s Fiction (Gregory Castle) 3. A Woolf at the Table: Virginia Woolf and the Domestic Dinner Party (Lauren Rich) 4. Consuming the Modernist Cookbook: Food Literacy and Culture with Toklas, Dalí, and Marinetti (Derek Gladwin) Part 2: Taste and Disgust 5. Objects of Disgust: A Moveable Feast and the Modernist Anti-Vomitive (Michel Delville and Andrew Norris) 6. “We were very lonely without those berries”: Gastronomic Colonialism in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (Clint Burnham) 7. From “Squalid Food” to “Proper Cuisine”: Food and Fare in Eliot’s Work (Jeremy Diaper) Part 3: Decadence and Absence 8. The Social and Cultural Uses of Food Separation (Peter Childs) 9. Against Culinary Art: Mina Loy and the Modernist Starving Artist (Alys Moody) 10. Cocktails with Noël Coward (Gregory Mackie) 11. Late Modernist Rationing: War, Power, Class (Kelly Sullivan) Part 4: Appetites and Diets 12. “The Raw and the Cooked”: Food and Modernist Poetry (Lee Jenkins) 13. Weight-Loss Regimes as Improvisation in Louis Armstrong’s and Duke Ellington’s Life Writing (Halloran) 14. Kitchen Talk: Marguerite Duras’ Experiments with Culinary Matter (Edwige Crucifix)

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Setting out a new, path-breaking research agenda for global rural development, this timely book offers an innovative and embedded rural social science capable of both understanding and enacting progress towards diverse and sustainable pathways. It relocates rural development at the heart of global trends associated with widespread but uneven urbanisation, climate change and severe resource depletion, rising population growth, density and inequality, and global political, economic and health crises.Chapters collapse traditional binary notions of development as north-south, rural-urban, global-local and traditional modern, embracing a revised conceptualisation of uneven development as a process dependent upon multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks. It offers potential routes for substantive, interlinked research agendas, including new ruralities, governance, land rights, agro-ecology, financialisation, power relations, family farming, and the role of markets.Scholars of geography, planning, rural sociology and rural-urban studies looking for a broader understanding of the topic will find this book essential. It will also be beneficial for those engaged in rural development policy and practice.Trade Review‘This book makes an interesting contribution to rural studies, informed by a solid grounding in the history of the discipline. It is surely correct to work toward eroding the division between rural and urban studies and the book provides a good guide to anyone looking for a broad description of the issues facing global development.’ -- Selyf Morgan, Eurasian Geography and Economics‘This book makes a significant and valuable contribution to interdisciplinary rural studies. It centres the rural and rurality while breaking down barriers, divides and binaries between the rural and the urban. It identifies key areas of rural research, as well as their relevant debates and bodies of literature, which will be indispensable for anyone interested in researching or working in and on rural spaces and places.’ -- Miles Kenney-Lazar, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography'Rural spaces, while still under-threat, also represent sites of incredible experimentation, innovation and resistance. In an era of growing ecological and economic crisis, this book represents a much needed addition to the literature showing rurality as site for contestation and socio-ecological redemption.' --Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. New ruralities and centralities for rural development 2. Changing questions of governance: reflexive and disruptive governance in the Anthropocene 3. New power configurations and transformations 4. Financialization and nested vulnerabilities. The rise of fictitious capital in placing agrarian change 5. Re-claiming land: questions of land rights and the management of the biosphere 6. Agroecology: a new paradigm for rural development? 7. Family farming in changing agricultural social structures 8. The power of the new markets Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook synthesizes and analyzes key issues and concerns relating to the impact of agriculture on both farmers and non-farmers. With a unique focus on humans rather than animals or the environment, the book is interdisciplinary and international in scope, with contributions from sociologists, economists, anthropologists and geographers providing case studies and examples from all six populated continents.Looking at the pervasive impact of agriculture, the Handbook explores all aspects of the production of food and fiber within the agrifood value chain, including: farmers and laborers growing crops and raising livestock, businesses supplying inputs for these operations, and processors transforming plants and animals into intermediate and finished food, beverage and clothing products. Separated into four parts, it analyzes how the agrifood industry affects farmer well-being; the application of science and technology within an agricultural context; the ways in which agriculture affects the well-being of smallholder farmers, especially in developing countries; and agriculture’s impact more broadly on society.This will be a beneficial read for economics and sociology students, particularly those looking at the impacts of agriculture. Accessible and clear, the Handbook will also be helpful for policymakers and agricultural NGOs wanting a more in-depth understanding of the impact of agriculture on human life.Trade Review‘This Handbook provides wide-ranging insights into the impact of agriculture on humans. Bringing together authors from multiple disciplines and perspectives, the collection provides fresh understandings of long-standing and up-to-the-minute impacts of agriculture and the broader agrifood system on farmers, farmworkers, and consumers. Readers will encounter new ways of understanding agrarianism, biotechnology, consumer choice, and ethical dilemmas in agriculture.‘Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Human Impact of Agriculture 1 Harvey S. James, Jr. PART I IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS 2 How farm consolidation affects farmers and farmworkers 13 James M. MacDonald 3 The real game of chicken: the tournament, broiler contracts and integrator power 31 Douglas H. Constance and Anthony Rainey 4 Input industry influence on farmer decision-making: an example of negative impacts to the environment and farmers 51 Diana Stuart 5 Identities on the family farm: agrarianism, materiality and the ‘good farmer’ 65 Jérémie Forney and Lee-Ann Sutherland PART II IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 6 Impacts of GE crop technologies on farmers 86 Leland L. Glenna and Elizabeth Ransom 7 Agricultural mechanization and farm labor development 102 Amer Ait Sidhoum, Maria Vrachioli and Johannes Sauer 8 The human impact of data bias and the digital agricultural revolution 119 Kelly Bronson, Sarah Rotz and Adrian D’Alessandro 9 Modernizing agriculture through digital technologies: prospects and challenges 138 Emily Duncan, Abdul-Rahim Abdulai and Evan D.G. Fraser PART III IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURE ON SMALLHOLDER FARMERS AND FARM LABORERS 10 ‘Modern’ agriculture and its impact on smallholder farmer livelihoods 163 Katherine A. Snyder 11 The impacts of private standards on smallholder well-being 179 Agni Kalfagianni 12 Fair trade’s impact on smallholders 194 Sarah Lyon 13 The human impact from Indian farmers’ productive but damaging use of pesticides 218 Geoff Kuehne 14 The social protection function of agriculture 233 Damilola Giwa Daramola and Harvey S. James, Jr. 15 Entrenched exploitation: temporary foreign agricultural worker programs in North America 256 Leigh Binford and Janet McLaughlin 16 The impacts of agroecology training within and beyond farmer training 275 Julia M.L. Laforge and Charles Z. Levkoe PART IV BROADER IMPACTS OF AGRICULTURE ON SOCIETY 17 The effects of agrochemicals on humans 297 Ryan E. Galt and Lauren Asprooth 18 How agrarian values affect society 333 Chad L. Christensen 19 How biodiversity loss affects society 352 Roland Ebel, Fabian Menalled, Selena Ahmed, Simone Gingrich, Giulia Maria Baldinelli and Georges F. Félix 20 Ethical issues arising from modern agriculture 377 Harvey S. James, Jr. 21 Finding alternatives in our broken food system: the illusion of choice 399 Lydia Zepeda Index 416

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Book SynopsisDid you know that coffee was recommended as protection against the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century? Or that tea was believed to make men ‘unfit to do their business’ and blamed for women becoming unattractive? On the other hand, a cup of chocolate was supposed to have exactly the opposite effect on the drinker’s sex life and physical appearance. These three beverages arrived in England in the 1650s from faraway, exotic places: tea from China, coffee from the Middle East and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Physicians, diarists and politicians were quick to comment on their supposed benefits and alleged harmfulness, using newspapers, pamphlets and handbills both to promote and denounce their sudden popularity. Others seized the opportunity to serve the growing appetite for these newly discovered drinks by setting up coffee houses or encouraging one-upmanship in increasingly elaborate tea-drinking rituals. How did the rowdy and often comical initial reception of these drinks form the roots of today’s enduring caffeine culture? From the tale of the goatherd whose animals became frisky on coffee berries to a duchess with a goblet of poisoned chocolate, this book, illustrated with eighteenth-century satirical cartoons and early advertisements, tells the extraordinary story of our favourite hot drinks.Trade Review‘Melanie King has written a delightful, diminutive stocking filler account of Tea, Coffee and Chocolate, using Bodleian archives. The story of these three beverages, all of which came to England in the mid-seventeenth century, is worth retelling. When I say ‘stocking filler’ I don’t mean slight or under researched, just lovely.' * Oxford Today *‘This nicely produced small book tells a familiar story, but one which stands the retelling, especially when so intelligently and enjoyably written.’ * Petits Propos Culinaires *

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Book SynopsisThe pie, to quote one Victorian writer, is a great human discovery which has universal estimation among all civilized eaters'. "Pie" explores the development of this most esteemed article of food, from the ancient pie, its crust inedible and used for preserving the contents, to its elevation as the highest expression of culinary art. The pie symbolizes family, celebration and ritual, and appears in literature from Chaucer to Jane Austen and in art from Monet to Hogarth. It is the most adaptable of foods, portable, nutritious and tasty, and its contents vary throughout the world, from fish to meat, from sweet to savoury, to the mysterious and sinister Old Maid' or Scrap' pie. A pie can be an economical investment for all miscellaneous savings', as Dickens called it, or a momentous and expensive work of art; it can even contain nothing but live birds, frogs or dancing girls. A celebration of the pie as well as a hugely informative history, with a selection of recipes from throughout the life of the pie, "Pie" will satisfy the appetite of anyone interested in the history of food and cookery.Trade Review'This homage to the pie is stylishly presented. Clarkson's prose is clear and informative and there are dozens of fine illustrations - photos, drawings, etchings, diagrams and reproductions of paintings - many in striking colour. All depict a pie of some sort.' - The Australian 'relate[s] many wonderful stories about pies in a book that almost gives off the savoury, buttery aroma of flaky pastry and tasty fillings ... Pie is the latest in a series of small, engaging and beautifully illustrated books ... Clarkson weaves these tales, with arch wit, into a splendid story.' - Sydney Morning Herald 'Complete with historical recipes and a good dose of humour, this book is crammed full of delicious, mouth-watering facts that will appeal to history buffs and foodies alike.' - The Chronicle, Queensland 'Clarkson's loving ode to pie is a rich, savory history of one of the world's oldest and most iconic dishes ... With enthusiasm and detailed research, Clarkson's entertaining history is a nutrient-rich meal for the mind, sure to be devoured as happily as its subject' - Publishers Weekly 'an all-encompassing look at the world of pies in all their glorious pastry history. With lesser-known facts, period photos and recipes, this book is far from just a history lesson on the origin of pies.' - British Baker magazine 'I expected this book to be a good read and it does not disappoint. It would be a great gift for any lover of food, food history or history in general. Pie: A Global History is an attractive volume and a worthwhile addition to any serious book collection.' - MostlyFood.co.uk

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Book SynopsisWhiskey: poets have celebrated it, preachers have condemned it, and blood has been shed over it. Governments, distillers and the public have fought over whiskey as it changed from a sometimes lethal, herb-infused concoction to a high-quality, meticulously crafted liquor. Kevin R. Kosar tells the story of whiskey, and its rise from obscure medieval origins to become the globally traded product that it is today. Focusing on Scotland, Ireland and the USA, Kosar charts how the technique of distillation moved from Ancient Egypt to the British Isles, and explains how, contrary to popular claims, there were no 'good old days' of whiskey. Before the twentieth century, consumers could never be sure just what was being poured in their cups - unscrupulous profiteers could distil anything into booze and pass it off as whiskey. Eventually, governments and industry established legal definitions of what whiskey is and how it could be made, and today's distinctive styles of whiskey evolved. Whiskey: A Global History explains how the types of whiskey - bourbon, corn, rye, Irish and Scotch - differ. With a list of recommended whiskey brands and classic whiskey cocktail recipes for the thirsty reader, this book is aimed at drink and food enthusiasts and history lovers alike.Trade Review'Scotch purists may splutter over Kosar's planet-wide perspective: note his spelling. But open-minded readers, and drinkers, will raise a glass to his elan and expertise.' - I (Independent) 'the perfect primer for the person who wants to quickly learn the basics ... his book is for more typical folks, many of whom have difficulty sorting out their single-malt Scotches from their bourbons from their Irish whiskeys.' - Washington Post 'a brief, informative, and endlessly diverting history of whiskey - in its many incarnations - that is not exactly intoxicating, but deeply satisfying ... it would be difficult to find, in the holiday season, a superior gift to this tasty, eye-opening, gem of light scholarship.' - The Weekly Standard 'Kevin Kosar might be the most thoughtful boozehound you'll ever meet' - The Washingtonian 'Once seen, the photograph on page 116 of the flared head of a pickled baby cobra inside a bottle of greenish whiskey from Thailand is liable to resist even the strongest attempts to scotch it from memory. Fortunately the other pages of this pocket-size guide are filled with sufficient charm and erudition to compensate.' - Diplomat magazine 'Kevin R. Kosar tells the story of whiskey from its obscure medieval origins to the global product that it is today. Focusing on Scotland, Ireland and the USA, Kosar explains how bourbon, corn, rye, Irish and Scotch differ, with a list of recommended brands and classic cocktail recipes for the thirsty reader to enjoy.' - Living North 'equips readers with the basics to navigate the world of whiskey in straightforward terms, breaking down not only the language so that consumers can interpret what the labels mean ... but also give readers an understanding of how so much of the whiskey industry around the world is tied to government policy and legislation. With maps, antique illustrations and advertisements, charts and photos, this global history distills the spirit in a way that's accessible and engaging.' - Liza Weisstuch's Annual Gift Guide, Beverage Business 'an informative, concise narrative of the drink's history, from its obscure medieval origins to the globally traded product that it is today.' - Eat-Drink-Etc.com 'Whiskey ... peels away the mythology to examine the real history of this legendary drink. Kosar shows that its history is at least as fascinating as the legend ... a delightful book' - Galveston Daily News

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Book SynopsisIn the United States, the United Kingdom, and Western Europe there has been exponential growth in the number of small independent breweries over the past thirty years – a reversal of the corporate consolidation and narrowing of consumer choice that characterized much of the twentieth century. While there are legal and policy components involved in this shift, the contributors to Untapped ask broader questions. How does the growth of craft beer connect to trends like the farm-to-table movement, gentrification, the rise of the “creative class,” and changing attitudes toward both cities and farms? How do craft beers conjure history, place, and authenticity? At perhaps the most fundamental level, how does the rise of craft beer call into being new communities that may challenge or reinscribe hierarchies based on gender, class, and race?Trade Review"Untapped speaks to important aspects of beer and food culture. It is well researched and documented and adds to our understanding of a largely understudied field." Carolyn Keller, Keene State College"A valuable and teachable book that will appeal to anyone interested in social science perspectives on craft brewing." Andrew Shears, Mansfield University

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection showcases an international mix of activist scholars who maintain that a vegan studies perspective is an important addition to the cultural studies landscape. Through a Vegan Studies Lens broadens the scope of vegan studies by engaging in a variety of texts and contexts and examines vegan pedagogical praxis and vegan publishing, as well as intersections between vegan theory, critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and feminism.

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Book SynopsisThe restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. Yet with over four million cooks and food-preparation workers employed in America's restaurants, not everyone makes it to the high-status position of chef. What factors determine who rises the ranks in this fiercely competitive pressure-cooker environment?Making It explores how the career path of restaurant workers depends on their accumulation of kitchen capital, a cultural asset based not only on their ability to cook but also on how well they can fit into the workplace culture and negotiate its hierarchical structures. After spending 120 hours working in a restaurant kitchen and interviewing fifty chefs and cooks from fine-dining establishments and greasy-spoon diners across the country, sociologist Ellen Meiser discovers many strategies for accumulating kitchen capital. For some, it involves education and the performance of expertise; o

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Book SynopsisDas Lehrbuch bietet einen Einstieg in Fragen rund um drei für Soziale Arbeit bedeutende Genussmittel: Kaffee, Tabak und Zucker. Fachkräfte der Sozialen Arbeit sind wiederkehrend in ganz verschiedenen Perspektiven mit ihrem Konsum befasst. Neben gesundheitsbezogenen Fragen aufgrund der gesellschaftlichen Ächtung von (zu viel) Zucker und Tabak lassen sich an ihnen bedeutende sozialpädagogische Fragen aufmachen, die jenseits gesundheitsbezogener, z. B. Fragen der Gastlichkeit, der Gestaltung professionell angenehmer Atmosphären, der Verteilung sowie des offenen Zugangs betreffen. In nahezu jedem sozialpädagogischen Setting werden täglich Verzehrsituationen bzw. Mahlzeiten geplant, angeboten und durchgeführt. Für die Soziale Arbeit über die Bereitstellung ausreichender und ausgewogener Ernährung hinaus verantwortlich ist für die Bereitstellung von Genussmitteln und deren Konsum vor dem Hintergrund gesellschaftlich relevanter eingelebter Kulturen und Traditionen. Das Lehrbuch ermöglicht, über den Gesamtzusammenhang von Genussmitteln im Zusammenhang mit Ernährung als grundlegende und voraussetzungsvolle Bedingungen sozialpädagogischen Denkens und Handelns reflektieren zu können. In allen Handlungsfeldern der Sozialen Arbeit sind Genussmittel auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen und mit verschiedenen Funktionen wiederkehrend Thema und können als täglich zu bewältigende Herausforderung eingeschätzt werden. Diese grundlegende Einführung ermöglicht eine Bewusstmachung und damit auch fachliche Reflexionsmöglichkeiten für den individuellen und gesellschaftlich verantwortlichen sozialpädagogischen Umgang von Fachkräften mit Fragen rund um die insbesondere für Soziale Arbeit bedeutenden Genussmittel Kaffee, Tabak und Zucker.Table of ContentsDie Bedeutung von Genussmitteln in der Gesellschaft: Von der Arznei über Luxus bis zur Massenware.- Die Bedeutung von Genussmitteln in der Sozialen Arbeit: Kaffee, Tabak und Zucker für alle?!- Die Bedeutung von Kaffee im professionellen Alltag der Sozialen Arbeit: Jede sozialpädagogische Beziehung beginnt mit einem Kaffee. Tabak, Rauchen, Zigaretten: Verbreitung, Pluralisierung und gesellschaftliche Erwünschtheit.- Die weite, unsichtbare Verbreitung von Zucker bei gleichzeitiger Ächtung.

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