The Globalization of Food
by Inglis, David; Gimlin, DebraFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-01-15
Publisher(s): Berg Pub Ltd
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Summary
The Globalization of Food provides a comprehensive guide to all of the key issues involving globalization and the production, distribution and consumption of food in the present day. From domestic kitchens to factory farms, from corporate boardrooms to the fields of the Developing World, the book examines the most important sites and processes involved in changing the ways people all across the planet eat today. Rich in detail, expansive in scope and ambitious in coverage, The Globalization of Food forcefully demonstrates the central role of food in many of the crucial and most controversial social and political issues of the 21st century.
Author Biography
David Inglis is a professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. Debra Gimlin is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. vii |
| Globalization and Food: Key Issues | |
| Food Globalizations: Ironies and Ambivalences of Food, Cuisine and Globality | p. 3 |
| Food Globalizations: Production and Distribution | |
| Slow Food and the Politics of 'Virtuous Globalization' | p. 45 |
| Standards, Science and Scale: The Case of Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon | p. 65 |
| Virtue and Valorization: 'Local Food' in the United States and France | p. 81 |
| Quality Conventions and Governance in the Wine Trade: A Global Value Chain Approach | p. 97 |
| Food Systems and the Local Trap | p. 117 |
| Fairtrade Food: Connecting Producers and Consumers | p. 139 |
| Food Globalizations: Preparation and Consumption | |
| The National and the Cosmopolitan in Cuisine: Constructing America through Gourmet Food Writing | p. 161 |
| Difference on the Menu: Neophilia, Neophobia and Globalization | p. 185 |
| Eating Your Way to Global Citizenship | p. 197 |
| Exotic Restaurants and Expatriate Home Cooking: Indian Food in Manhattan | p. 213 |
| Globalization and the Challenge of Variety: A Comparison of Eating in Britain and France | p. 227 |
| Hispanic Foodways in the San Luis Valley of Colorado: The Local, Global, Hybrid and Processed Fourth of July Feast | p. 243 |
| Globalization and Obesity | p. 255 |
| 'Is It Real Food?': Who Benefits from Globalization in Tanzania and India? | p. 273 |
| Index | p. 291 |
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