Following on from the success of the first edition, John Coveney traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with diet, self-discipline and food guilt. Using our current fascination with health and nutrition, he explores why our appetite for food pleasures makes us feel anxious. This up-to-date edition includes an examination of how our current obsession with body size, especially fatness, drives a national and international panic about the obesity epidemic .
Focusing on how our food anxieties have stemmed from social, political and religious problems...
Following on from the success of the first edition, John Coveney traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with di...
Using the fascination with the science of nutrition in many Western cultures, this book examines our need to discipline our desires, our appetites and our pleasures at the table.
Using the fascination with the science of nutrition in many Western cultures, this book examines our need to discipline our desires, our appetites and...
The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure and political power, food is and has been an enduring requirement of human biological, social and cultural existence. In recent years, interest in food has increased across the academic, public and popular spheres, fuelled by popular media s constant play on the role of food and body size, and food and cooking, as a mass spectacle for TV audiences.
In "Food, "a new book part of the Shortcuts Series, John Coveney examines food as humanness, identity,...
The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure and poli...
This book explores the links between food and democracy. It addresses how democratic principles can be used to shape our food system and takes a practical 'how-to' approach to using democratic processes to regain control of the food we eat. It also highlights what food democracy looks like on the ground and how individuals, communities and societies can be empowered to access, cook and eat healthy food in ways that are sustainable. Food democracy, as a concept, is a social movement based on the idea that people can and should be able to actively participate in shaping the food system rather...
This book explores the links between food and democracy. It addresses how democratic principles can be used to shape our food system and takes a pract...
This volume is concerned with food poverty and action on food (in)security. The context is a global one; as the developed world faces a problem with overconsumption and chronic diseases, the developing world is addressing the double burden of hunger and over consumption. Even in the developed world, nation states are facing the rise of modern malnutrition which is over consumption, but also the re-emergence of hunger as there are growing levels of poverty and inequality due to the financial crises. Food insecurity is in many people s minds associated with hunger, and whilethis is true the...
This volume is concerned with food poverty and action on food (in)security. The context is a global one; as the developed world faces a problem with o...
