Refashioning Nature : Food, Ecology and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415067027 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 279 str.

David Goodman; Michael R. Redclift

Opis

We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little. Food as the ultimate commodity in an economic system lies at the base of global development and interdependence; food, from cultivation to consumption, provides the chief link between humankind and the natural environment. Yet, technological advances - in genetics, agri-business and food processing - have combined with changing patterns of diet and (women's) employment to challenge our perception of the natural and of our position within a natural system. At this point of dislocation, global crisis and conscience have sharpened the ideological force of Nature.

Recenzje

`David Goodman and Michael Redclift avoid simple cause-and-effect arguments in recounting this unsavoury tale of transformations in nature ... This is an ... impressive and depressing contribution to the political economy of food.' - New Statesman and Society

`Refashioning Nature ought to be eagerly read in a culture that is obsessed with food.' - Social History

Spis treści

List of Illustrations, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 FOOD INTO FREEZERS: WOMEN INTO FACTORIES, 2 THE PASSING OF RURAL SOCIETY, 3 THE ORIGINS OF THE MODERN AGRIFOOD SYSTEM, 4 INTERNATIONALIZATION AND THE THIRD WORLD FOOD CRISIS, 5 ENGINEERING LIFE: AGRIBIOTECHNOLOGIES AND THE FOOD SYSTEM, 6 THE FOOD SYSTEM AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 7 CONCLUSION: COUNTER REVOLUTION, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

David Goodman, Michael Redclift