Shifting Food Facts: Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138549555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 132 str.

Alissa Overend

Opis

This book offers a much-needed reframing of food discourse by presenting alternative ways of thinking about the changing politics of food, eating, and nutrition. It examines critical epistemological questions of how food knowledge comes to be shaped and why we see pendulum swings when it comes to the question of what to eat.

Spis treści

Introduction: Food Facts in a Post-Truth Culture 1. Western Genealogies of Healthy Eating: From Humoural Medicine to Modern Nutritionism 2. Shifting Food Facts of Canada’s Food Guides, 1942–2019 3. Dairy: Beyond "Got" and "Not" Milk 4. Wheat: Global Staple, Modern Health Scourge 5. Meat: The False Divides between Veganism and Carnism. Conclusions: The Trouble with Singular Food Truths

O autorze

Alissa Overend is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at MacEwan University. Her research in the areas of critical food, health, and nutrition studies questions the shaping of contemporary health and illness phenomena and the politics of knowledge therein.