Food / John Coveney.

"In Food, John Coveney examines 'food as...' identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment, justice, and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human. The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a...

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Main Author: Coveney, John (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Edition:Second edition.
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545 0 |a John Coveney is Professor of Global Food, Culture and Health in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. He has also worked as a nutritionist and dietitian addressing regional, indigenous and international health issues, and his work has been used by policy makers seeking to understand the role of food in family life. His research interests include the history of food, public health, nutrition, food policy, and the social and cultural factors that influence food consumption. He is author of Food, Morals and Meaning: The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating (Routledge, Second Edition, 2006) and co-author of Food Democracy: From Consumer to Food Citizen (2015). He is also co-editor of Food Poverty and Insecurity: International Food Inequalities (2015) and Handbook of Food Security and Society (2023). 
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520 |a "In Food, John Coveney examines 'food as...' identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment, justice, and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human. 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. Through food, we construct our social identities, our families and communities. However, Coveney also highlights the tensions between the industrialisation of food, the environment, and the iniquitous distribution of food. He also considers how the food industries, on which most of us have to rely, have also had direct effects on our bodies through diet the development of illness and diseases. This accessible primer is for students and general readers alike, indeed, for anyone with an interest in food. It questions the idea that food is merely something inert on the plate. Instead, it shows how influential, symbolic, powerful and transformative food has come to be"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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