The Political Language of Food

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781498505550
• ISBN-10: 1498505554
• Artikelnr.: 42372968

Autorenporträt

Samuel Boerboom is assistant professor of media studies in the Department of Communication and Theatre at Montana State University Billings.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: How does food language function politically? Samuel Boerboom
Chapter 1 Tracing the "Back to the Land" Trope: Self-Sufficiency,
Counterculture, and Community Jessica M. Prody Chapter 2 Végétariens
Radicaux: John Oswald and the Trope of Sympathy in Revolutionary Paris
Justin Killian Chapter 3 The Revolution Will Not Be (Food) Reviewed:
Politics of Agitation and Control of Occupy Kitchen Amy Pason Chapter 4
Haute Colonialism: Exocitizing Povery in Bizarre Foods America Casey Ryan
Kelly Chapter 5 Pungent Yet Problematic: The Class-Based Framing of Ramps
in the New York Times and the Charleston Gazette Melissa Boehm Chapter 6
Constructing Taste and Waste as Habitus: Food and Matters of Access and
In/Security Leda Cooks Chapter 7 Tying the Knot: How Industry and Advocacy
Organizations Market Language as Humane Joseph L. Abisaid Chapter 8 Corn
Allergy: Public Policy, Private Devastation Kathy Brady Chapter 9 Family
Farms with Happy Cows: A Narrative Analysis of Horizon Organic Dairy
Packaging Labels Jennifer L. Adams Chapter 10 Chipotle Mexican Grill's
Meatwashing Propaganda: Corporate-Speak Hiding Suffering of "Commodity"
Animals Ellen W. Gorsevski Chapter 11 Corporate Colonization in the Market:
Discursive Closures and the Greenwashing of Food Discourse Megan A. Koch
and Cristin A. Compton Chapter 12 Mistaken Consensus and the
Body-as-Machine Analogy Samuel Boerboom