Food Culture and Politics in the Baltic States

ISBN-13: 9780367595128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 136 str.

Diana Mincyte; Ulrike Plath

Opis

Focusing on Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, this edited volume examines changing food production and consumption practices in the Baltic region in the politically tumultuous twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies.

Spis treści

Exploring Modern Foodways: History, Nature, and Culture in the Baltic States  Good, Clean, Fair … and Illegal: Paradoxes of Food Ethics in Post-Socialist Latvia  Geographies of Reconnection at the Marketplace   Changing Values of Wild Berries in Estonian Households: Recollections from an Ethnographic Archive  "Is that Hunger Haunting the Stove?"  The Evolution of Household Foodscapes over Two Decades of Transition in Latvia  The Making of the Consumer? Risk and Consumption in Europeanized Lithuania  Atlantic Herring in Estonia: In the Transverse Waves of International Economy and National Ideology

 

O autorze

Diana Mincyte is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she publishes on social and environmental dimensions of agro-food systems both in and outside of post-socialist East Europe.

Ulrike Plath is a Professor of German culture and history in the Baltic region at Tallinn University and a senior researcher at the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. She has published in the areas of Baltic cultural history of the Enlightenment and Baltic foods, gardening, and environmental history.