Food, power, and agency /

Grounded in the work of Roland Barthes, Bruno Latour, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault, this exciting book uses food as a lens to examine agency and the political, economic, social, and cultural power which underlies every choice of food and every act of eating. The book is divided into three pa...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Martschukat, Jürgen (Editor), Simon, Bryant (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • The power of food: immigrant German restaurants in San Francisco and the formation of ethnic identities / Leonard Schmieding
  • Italian cuisine in Japan and the power of networking among cooks / Rossella Ceccarini and Keiichi Sawaguchi
  • Waiters, writers, and power: from dining room commanders to the emotional proletariat / Christoph Ribbat
  • The geography of silence: food and tragedy in globalizing America / Bryant Simon
  • Making food matter: "scientific eating" and the struggle for healthy selves / Nina Mackert
  • "What diet can do": running and eating right in 1970s America / Jürgen Martschukat
  • Being too big: as deviance from the societal order / Eva Barlösius
  • When the grease runs through the paper: on the consumption of ultragreasy bureks / Jernej Mlekuž.