Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics
Chad Lavin
Abstract
The book looks at canonical books in political theory and contemporary interventions in food politics to examine how the experience of eating structures our ability to conceptualize politics. The book offers a theoretical treatment of food politics, examining how food offers valuable resources for thinking about such political concepts as identity, knowledge, and sovereignty. The book does not just contribute to Food Studies, but helps explain the rise of Food Studies as an area of humanistic inquiry. The book links the concerns of food politics (especially questions of sustainability, public ... More
The book looks at canonical books in political theory and contemporary interventions in food politics to examine how the experience of eating structures our ability to conceptualize politics. The book offers a theoretical treatment of food politics, examining how food offers valuable resources for thinking about such political concepts as identity, knowledge, and sovereignty. The book does not just contribute to Food Studies, but helps explain the rise of Food Studies as an area of humanistic inquiry. The book links the concerns of food politics (especially questions of sustainability, public health, and inequality) to the changing nature of global order and the possibilities for democratic rule. The book examines the significance of consumerist politics, and (simultaneously) the relationship between politics and ethics, public and private.
Keywords:
Animals,
Biopolitics,
Community,
Consumer Culture,
Democracy,
Food,
Local Foods,
Materialism,
neoliberalism,
posthumanism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780816680917 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 |
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816680917.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Chad Lavin, author
Associate Professor, Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic University
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