Coming Home To Eat The Pleasures And Politics Of Local Food

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393335054
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food.

Author : Ursula K. Heise
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317660196
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities written by Ursula K. Heise and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological crises, the volume explores the potential of the environmental humanities for organizing humanistic research, opening up new forms of interdisciplinarity, and shaping public debate and policies on environmental issues. Sections cover: The Anthropocene and the Domestication of Earth Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities Inequality and Environmental Justice Decline and Resilience: Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory Environmental Arts, Media, and Technologies The State of the Environmental Humanities The first of its kind, this companion covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines within the humanities and with the social and natural sciences. Exploring how the environmental humanities contribute to policy and action concerning some of the key intellectual, social, and environmental challenges of our times, the chapters offer an ideal guide to this rapidly developing field.

Author : Brian Halweil
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393326642
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eat Here written by Brian Halweil and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a number of case studies in which local people began using local supply as their primary source of food, Halweil shows how consumers and producers can create short-chain food economies whether the locale is Norway, Egypt, Hawaii, Washington, Kenya, Brazil, Massachusetts, or even East Hampton.

Author : Michelle Phillipov
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319641018
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and Food Industries written by Michelle Phillipov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to combine textual analysis of food media texts with interviews with media production staff, reality TV contestants, celebrity chefs, and food producers and retailers across the artisan-conventional spectrum. Intensified media interest in food has seen food politics become a dominant feature of popular media—from television and social media to cookbooks and advertising. This is often thought to be driven by consumers and by new ethics of consumption, but Media and Food Industries reveals how contemporary food politics is also being shaped by political and economic imperatives within the media and food industries. It explores the behind-the-scenes production dynamics of contemporary food media to assess the roles of—and relationships between—media and food industries in shaping new concerns and meanings with respect to food.

Author : Andrew F. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610698592
Total Pages : 1226 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food in America [3 volumes] written by Andrew F. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 1226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume work examines all facets of the modern U.S. food system, including the nation's most important food and agriculture laws, the political forces that shape modern food policy, and the food production trends that are directly impacting the lives of every American family. Americans are constantly besieged by conflicting messages about food, the environment, and health and nutrition. Are foods with genetically modified ingredients safe? Should we choose locally grown food? Is organic food better than conventional food? Are concentrated animal feed operations destroying the environment? Should food corporations target young children with their advertising and promotional campaigns? This comprehensive three-volume set addresses all of these questions and many more, probing the problems created by the industrial food system, examining conflicting opinions on these complex food controversies, and highlighting the importance of food in our lives and the decisions we make each time we eat. The coverage of each of the many controversial food issues in the set offers perspectives from different sides to encourage readers to examine various viewpoints and make up their own minds. The first volume, Food and the Environment, addresses timely issues such as climate change, food waste, pesticides, and sustainable foods. Volume two, entitled Food and Health and Nutrition, addresses subjects like antibiotics, food labeling, and the effects of salt and sugar on our health. The third volume, Food and the Economy, tackles topics such as food advertising and marketing, food corporations, genetically modified foods, globalization, and megagrocery chains. Each volume contains several dozen primary documents that include firsthand accounts written by promoters and advertisers, journalists, politicians and government officials, and supporters and critics of various views related to food and beverages, representing speeches, advertisements, articles, books, portions of major laws, and government documents, to name a few. These documents provide readers additional resources from which to form informed opinions on food issues.

Author : Allison Carruth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032822
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Appetites written by Allison Carruth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary study explores how agribusiness, industrial agriculture and countercultural food movements underpin modern American conceptions of global power.

Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640091696
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gift of Good Land written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper with them all. We live in one functioning organism whose separate parts are artificially isolated by our culture. Here, Berry develops the compelling argument that the “gift” of good land has strings attached. We have it only on loan and only for as long as we practice good stewardship.

Author : Gary Paul Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317980751
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Food and Community Development written by Gary Paul Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food has become an essential component in community development practice. Whether in reference to building a local or regional food system or addressing food insecurity, food has become a focus in community development approaches in many localities. Farmers markets, community gardens, farm-to-school programs, and other food-centered initiatives have been used to foster community development processes across a spectrum of desired outcomes. The surging interest in food for fostering community development draws attention to numerous applications, ranging from grassroots efforts to formal programs sponsored by the public or nonprofit sectors. These efforts are often in conjunction with local private businesses, helping create micro-businesses and supporting the small farm movement. Some regions are even considering economic development strategies of "food clusters" to promote speciality food businesses and supporting programs. This volume explores the relationships between food and community, and the various approaches for development through a selection of chapters illustrating a wide range of applications. This book is a compilation of articles published in the journal Community Development.

Author : Ann E. Cudd
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319327860
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizenship and Immigration - Borders, Migration and Political Membership in a Global Age written by Ann E. Cudd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a timely philosophical analysis of interrelated normative questions concerning immigration and citizenship in relation to the global context of multiple nation states. In it, philosophers and scholars from the social sciences address both fundamental questions in moral and political philosophy as well as specific issues concerning policy. Topics covered in this volume include: the concept and the role of citizenship, the equal rights and representation of citizens, general moral frameworks for addressing immigration issues, the duty to obey immigration law, the use of ethnic, cultural, or linguistic criteria for selective immigration, domestic violence as grounds for political asylum, and our duty to refugees in general. The urgency of the need to discuss these matters is clear. Several humanitarian crises involving human migration across national boundaries stemming from war, economic devastations, gang violence, and violence in ethnic or religious conflicts have unfolded. Political debates concerning immigration and immigrant communities are continuing in many countries, especially during election years. While there have always been migrating human beings, they raise distinctive issues in the modern era because of the political context under which the migrations take place, namely, that of a system of sovereign nation states with rights to control their borders and determine their memberships. This collection provides readers the opportunity to parse these complex issues with the help of diverse philosophical, moral, and political perspectives.

Author : Diane A. Welland M.S., R.D.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101514736
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eating Local written by Diane A. Welland M.S., R.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supporting local farmers has really grown on people-and here's the guide to doing it right There are so many great reasons to shop for and eat locally grown or raised foods, including freshness, taste, energy conservation, and supporting small business owners. That is why tens of thousands have made the switch to local foods. Now families and communities are enthusiastically supporting farmer's markets, artisan dairy farmers, cheese makers, family farms, local vineyards, and local livestock. Food expert and nutritionist Diane A. Welland explains what local eating is and isn't and how anyone can move toward a more sustainable way of eating. It covers: • Types of foods considered local • What is in season when • Storing foods • Money saving tips • A practical approach for a challenging endeavor • Includes a complete overview of local eating across all 50 states