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The Political Language of Food.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498505567
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Political Language of FoodDDC classification:
  • 338.4/7664
LOC classification:
  • TX349
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Tracing the "Back to the Land" Trope -- Chapter Two: Végétariens Radicaux -- Chapter Three: The Revolution Will Not Be (Food) Reviewed -- Chapter Four: Exoticizing Poverty in Bizarre Foods America -- Chapter Five: Pungent Yet Problematic -- Chapter Six: Constructing Taste and Waste as Habitus -- Chapter Seven: Tying the Knot -- Chapter Eight: Corn Allergy -- Chapter Nine: Family Farms with Happy Cows -- Chapter Ten: Chipotle Mexican Grill's Meatwashing Propaganda -- Chapter Eleven: Corporate Colonization in the Market -- Chapter Twelve: Mistaken Consensus and the Body-as-Machine Analogy -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Summary: This edited collection explores how food language is political. The contributors examine the production of food language in conjunction with historical social movements, food labeling practices, illustrations of social class, as well as corporate and bureaucratic language.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Tracing the "Back to the Land" Trope -- Chapter Two: Végétariens Radicaux -- Chapter Three: The Revolution Will Not Be (Food) Reviewed -- Chapter Four: Exoticizing Poverty in Bizarre Foods America -- Chapter Five: Pungent Yet Problematic -- Chapter Six: Constructing Taste and Waste as Habitus -- Chapter Seven: Tying the Knot -- Chapter Eight: Corn Allergy -- Chapter Nine: Family Farms with Happy Cows -- Chapter Ten: Chipotle Mexican Grill's Meatwashing Propaganda -- Chapter Eleven: Corporate Colonization in the Market -- Chapter Twelve: Mistaken Consensus and the Body-as-Machine Analogy -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This edited collection explores how food language is political. The contributors examine the production of food language in conjunction with historical social movements, food labeling practices, illustrations of social class, as well as corporate and bureaucratic language.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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