Global food, global justice : essays on eating under globalization / edited by Mary C. Rawlinson and Caleb Ward.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
  • ©2015
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1 online resource (176 p.)

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As Brillant-Savarin remarked in 1825 in his classic text Physiologie du Goût, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." Philosophers and political theorists have only recently begun to pay attention to food as a critical domain of human activity and social justice. Too often these discussions treat food as a commodity and eating as a matter of individual choice. Policies that address the global obesity crisis by focusing on individual responsibility and medical interventions ignore the dependency of human agency on a culture of possibilities.The essays collected here address thi
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).
ISBN
1-4438-8234-8
OCLC
921235572
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