Careful Eating: Bodies, Food And Care (Critical Food Studies)

Synopsis

Critically reflecting on the interplays between food and care, this multidisciplinary volume asks ’why do individuals, institutions and agencies care about what other people eat?’ It explores how acts of caring about food and eating shape and intervene in individual bodies as well as being enacted in and through those bodies. In so doing, the volume extends current critical debates regarding food and care as political mechanisms through which social hierarchies are constructed and both self and 'other' (re)produced. Addressing the ways in which eating and caring interact on multiple scales and sites - from public health and clinical settings to the market, the home and online communities - Careful Eating asks what ’eating’ and ’caring’ are, what relationships they create and rupture, and how their interplay is experienced in myriad spaces of everyday life. Taking account of this two-directional flow of engagement between eating and caring, the chapters are organized into three central theoretical dimensions: how eating practices mobilize discourses and forms of care; how discourses and practices of care (look to) shape particular forms of eating and food preferences; and how it is often in the bodies of individual consumers that eating and care encounter one another.

Copyright:

2015

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

244 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317169727

Related ISBNs:

9781472439505, 9781315570877, 9781472439499, 9781472439482, 9781472439482, 9781138308473, 9781138308473, 9781138308473, 9781315570877, 9781472439482, 9781138308473, 9781315570877, 9781472439482

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/27/20

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Emma-Jayne Abbots

Edited by:

Anna Lavis

Edited by:

Luci Attala