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Ecology

Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food Words : Essays in Culinary Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...As a branch of biology, ecology comprises the scientific study of the relationship between plant and animal organisms and their environment. The term was coined in 1866 by the German scientist Ernst Haeckel. Ecological thinking was further...

Slow Living in the Global Everyday

Wendy Parkins

Wendy Parkins is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the editor of Fashioning the Body Politic: Dress, Gender, Citizenship. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Geoffrey Craig

Geoffrey Craig is Professor of Journalism an Director of Research at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of The Media, Politics and Public Life. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Slow Living

Berg, 2006

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...A revolution takes place when and only when … people can no longer lead their everyday lives.A new relationship between the individual, the local and the global is emerging, and it is here, not in the public realm of governance...

Masked Violence, Muted Voices

Carol J. Adams

Carol J. Adams is an activist and author of The Pornography of Meat, Living Among Meat Eaters, and many other books challenging a sexist, meat-eating world. She is a sought-after speaker throughout North America and Europe, and has been invited to more than 100 campuses to show "The Sexual Politics of Meat Slide Show," which is always being updated to include contemporary cultural representations. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Sexual Politics of Meat : A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. . . . Inadequate words have been taken as adequate.In the previous chapter, we were concerned with the consumption of the referent so that through metaphor it lost all meaning except by its...

Pleasure

Angela Meah

Angela Meah

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Food Words : Essays in Culinary Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The pleasures of the table—that lovely old fashioned phrase—depict food as an art form, as a delightful part of civilized life. In spite of food fads, fitness programmes, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully...

Ethnography of Food Activism

Valeria Siniscalchi

Valeria Siniscalchi is Associate Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Marseille, France. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Carole Counihan

Carole Counihan is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Millersville University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food Activism : Agency, Democracy and Economy

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Introduction The idea for this book was born during fieldwork. We met doing research on the same subject—the Slow Food movement—but along two different pathways, one focusing “from above” on the movement’s headquarters, the other...

Conclusion

Cristina Grasseni

Cristina Grasseni is a tenured Researcher at Bergamo University (Italy) and Visiting Scholar at the Anthropology Department of Harvard University, USA (2011-14). She was David & Roberta Logie Fellow and Harvard Film Study Center Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2011/12). Amongst her recent books are: Developing Skill Developing Vision. Practices of Locality at the Food of the Alps (2009) and Skilled Visions. Between Apprenticeship and Standards (2007). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Beyond Alternative Food Networks : Italy’s Solidarity Purchase Groups

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...Diana, my elder gasista who once offered me cow liver, confessed during a GAS meeting: “You know, I go to the supermarket sometimes. There are a few things I need that I cannot procure through GAS. So I go, and I just buy those items. But I...

Conclusion

Kima Cargill

Kima Cargill

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The Psychology of Overeating : Food and the Culture of Consumerism

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Chapter synopsis: In the final chapter, Cargill returns to the central case study of the book, using it to show how global consumer culture is at a crossroads, facing dire public health and environmental consequences. Arguing...

Drinks: Water, “Soft,” and Alcoholic

Tom Brennan

Tom Brennan

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The Handbook of Food Research

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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...According to one recent survey, Europeans drink nearly a third of their daily liquids in the form of tea, coffee, and cocoa. Alcohol amounts to little more than ten percent of their liquids, and both milk and soft drinks come to nearly...

Activism through Commensality: Food and Politics in a Temporary Vegan Zone

Yvonne le Grand

Yvonne le Grand

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Commensality : From Everyday Food to Feast

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...This chapter is based on the author’s Master’s dissertation as defended at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) of the University of Lisbon in 2010 and can be retrieved at: http://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/307...

Brothers in Faith: Islamic Food Activism in Egypt

Nefissa Naguib

Nefissa Naguib

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Food Activism : Agency, Democracy and Economy

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...Food, Faith, and Activism The Society of the Muslim Brotherhood is the oldest and largest Islamist movement in Egypt. It was established in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, a primary school teacher. From the start Hassan al-Banna demanded...