Mihalis Mentinis

The Psychopolitics of Food

Culinary rites of passage in the neoliberal age

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A highly original and transdisciplinary exploratiojn of the contemporary 'foodscape', examining culinary practices and food habits and in particular the ways in which they conflate with neoliberal political economy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781138182561
• ISBN-10: 1138182567
• Artikelnr.: 44147204

Autorenporträt

Mihalis Mentinis completed this work as part of a postdoctoral research project in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Intercultural Indigenous Studies (ICIIS), at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He now lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Dedication
Table of contents
Introduction: Culinary Rites of Passage in the Neoliberal Age
Chapter 1: From Unemployment to 'Creative' Adaptability: Romanticised Chefs
and the Psychopolitics of Gastroporn
Chapter 2: From the Semiotic to the Symbolic: Placentophagy and the
Name-of- the-Chef
Chapter 3: From Colonialism to Neoliberal Multiculturalism: A Mapuche Spice
in the Chilean National Cuisine
Chapter 4: From East to West: Economic Crisis and the Cooking of the New
Greeks
Chapter 5: From Eating to Starving: Gastrosexual Men and Anorectic Women
Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Anorectic Cannibalism
References
Index