Refashioning Nature
Food, Ecology and Culture
Published on 26. September 2002
304 pages
978-1-134-91865-2 (ISBN)
Description
We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little. In this accessible, cross-disciplinary text, David Goodman and Michael Redclift look at the development of the modern food system, integrating different bodies of knowledge and debate concerning food, agriculture, the environment and the household. They link changes in our diet and concern with the environment to many of the problems afflicting developing countries: food shortages, poor nutrition and wholesale environmental destruction.
Reviews / Votes
`David Goodman and Michael Redclift avoid simple cause-and-effect arguments in recounting this unsavoury tale of transformations in nature ... This is an ... impressive and depressing contribution to the political economy of food.' - New Statesman and Society`Refashioning Nature ought to be eagerly read in a culture that is obsessed with food.' - Social History
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
7,74 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-91865-2 (9781134918652)
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04/2015
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09/1991
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Persons
David Goodman, Michael Redclift
Content
List of Illustrations, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 FOOD INTO FREEZERS: WOMEN INTO FACTORIES, 2 THE PASSING OF RURAL SOCIETY, 3 THE ORIGINS OF THE MODERN AGRIFOOD SYSTEM, 4 INTERNATIONALIZATION AND THE THIRD WORLD FOOD CRISIS, 5 ENGINEERING LIFE: AGRIBIOTECHNOLOGIES AND THE FOOD SYSTEM, 6 THE FOOD SYSTEM AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 7 CONCLUSION: COUNTER REVOLUTION, Bibliography, Index
