The Psychopolitics of Food probes into the contemporary foodscape, examining culinary practices and food habits and in particular the ways in which they conflate with neoliberal political economy. It suggests that generic alimentary and culinary practices constitute technologies of the self and the body and argues that the contemporary preoccupation with food takes the form of rites of passage that express and mark the transition from a specific stage of neoliberal development to another vis-a-vis a re-configuration of the alimentary and sexual regimes.
Even though these rites of...
The Psychopolitics of Food probes into the contemporary foodscape, examining culinary practices and food habits and in particular the ways in which...