Michael Carolan

The Real Cost of Cheap Food

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This challenging but accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781138080744
• ISBN-10: 1138080748
• Artikelnr.: 57056186

Autorenporträt

Michael Carolan is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, USA. He is the author of several books including The Sociology of Food and Agriculture (Routledge), Cheaponomics: The High Cost of Low Prices (Routledge) and No One Eats Alone: Food as a Social Enterprise (Island Press).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Cheap Food
Globalization and Development 3. Cheap Food and Conflict 4. Cheap Food
Hunger and Obesity 5. Cheap Meat 6. Cheap Food and the Environment 7. Cheap Food...But at What Price? 8. Cheap Food
Community and Culture 9. Cheap Food: Who Wins? 10. Making Food Affordable