Alistair Fraser

Global Foodscapes (eBook, PDF)

Oppression and resistance in the life of food

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Global Foodscapes is a highly accessible and useful text for undergraduate students interested in the global food economy. The text explores how food is conceived, traded, grown, reared, processed, sold, and consumed; investigates what goes wrong along the way; and assesses what diverse people around the world are doing to fix these faults. It draws on case studies from around the world that illuminate key issues about food in today's world; examines how oppression affects diverse people caught up in the food economy; and highlights how individuals, groups, and institutions such as governments, but also firms, are trying to improve how we interact with the food system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317274865
• Artikelnr.: 45521800

Autorenporträt

Alistair Fraser is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland. His research is diverse in nature - cutting across political, economic, and cultural geography - and includes journal articles on land reform in South Africa, scale in political practice, and music.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: The world upstream of the farm
Chapter Two: Agricultural foodscapes
Chapter Three: Food processing
Chapter Four: The foodscapes of selling of food
Chapter Five: Food consumption
Index