The political language of food /

The political language of food / edited by Samuel Boerboom. - Lanham, London, New York: Lexington Books, 2015. - xii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tracing the "back to the land" trope : self-sufficiency, counterculture, and community / Jessica M. Prody -- Végétariens radicaux : John Oswald and the trope of sympathy in revolutionary Paris / Justin Killian -- The revolution will not be (food) reviewed : politics of agitation and control of occupy kitchen / Amy Pason -- Haute colonialism : exocitizing povery in bizarre foods America / Casey Ryan Kelly -- Pungent yet problematic : the class-based framing of ramps in the New York Times and the Charleston Gazette / Melissa Boehm -- Constructing taste and waste as habitus : food and matters of access and in/security / Leda Cooks -- Tying the knot : how industry and advocacy organizations market language as humane / Joseph L. Abisaid -- Corn allergy : public policy, private devastation / Kathy Brady -- Family farms with happy cows : a narrative analysis of horizon organic dairy packaging labels / Jennifer L. Adams -- Chipotle Mexican Grill's meatwashing propaganda : corporate-speak hiding suffering of "commodity" animals / Ellen W. Gorsevski -- Corporate colonization in the market : discursive closures and the greenwashing of food discourse / Megan A. Koch and Cristin A. Compton -- Mistaken consensus and the body-as-machine analogy / Samuel Boerboom.

9781498505550 (cloth : alk. paper)

2015005824


Food--Terminology--Political aspects.
Food--Moral and ethical aspects.
Food industry and trade--Terminology--Political aspects.
Food industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects.

TX349 / POL 2015

338.4/7664