Cultural Ecologies of Food in the Twenty-First Century
Series Editor: Tom Hertweck (University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth) & Iker Arranz (California State University, Bakersfield)
As we move deeper into the 21st century, people around the globe have become increasingly aware of the way their food choices produce ecologies of effects, environmentally and otherwise. Cultural Ecologies of Food invites manuscripts that, using a truly interdisciplinary framework, parse the complexities of contemporary food culture. Encompassing any characteristics of food and drink, from their agricultural or technological production to their traditional or market-based consumption, and including their systems of waste and the cultures of thought that surround them, works in the series will uncover how humanity’s daily eating is constellated within and among diverse bodies of knowledge. Cultural Ecologies encourages the work of specialists who are eager to relate their learned understanding of eating to those outside their own discipline. From the politics, economics, and scientific practices of agriculture at any scale, to the systems of promotion, distribution, and consumption that make food salable, to the representational economies of value that tell us what is good to eat and when: any transdisciplinary approach that brings food into focus will be considered. Of particular interest are those manuscripts that include deep place-based perspectives or the environmental effects of how we eat as part of their investigations, including those that attempt to pose questions food scholars and real-world eaters must face as well as to answer the extant dilemmas of our time. The series also welcomes projects that tackle the global reach of food systems and comparative studies of producing, eating, and food thought, as well as those studies that attempt to ground their work in the historical systems that inform our present moment.Showing results 1-3 of 3
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The War on Wine
Prohibition, Neoprohibition, and American Culture
ISBN: 9781647791148
Pub Date: 7 November 2023
Format: Paperback
172 Pages
Throughout American history the prohibition and restriction of alcohol, including wine, has been part of what we now call culture wars. After losing the Prohibition Constitutional Amendment, anti-alcohol forces rebranded themselves as neoprohibitionists dedicated to the restriction of alcohol usage and they touted themselves as the counter-voice to alcohol organizations like the Wine Institute led by John A. De l.uca from 1976 to 2013.
Farm to Form
Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire
ISBN: 9781948908368
Pub Date: 4 March 2020
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Farm to Form is the first book to investigate the relationship between the rise of industrial food and the emergence of literary modernisms in Britain and Ireland. By weaving insights from modernist studies, food studies, and ecocriticism together, Farm to Form contends that industrial food production transformed the natural world into a “modernist” terrain that shaped new literary forms, positioning modernism as central to the study of narratives of resistance against social and environmental degradation.
Through a Vegan Studies Lens
Textual Ethics and Lived Activism
ISBN: 9781948908108
Pub Date: 20 February 2019
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
This edited collection showcases an international mix of activist scholars who maintain that a vegan studies perspective is an important addition to the cultural studies landscape. Through a Vegan Studies Lens broadens the scope of vegan studies by engaging in a variety of texts and contexts and examines vegan pedagogical praxis and vegan publishing, as well as intersections between vegan theory, critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and feminism.
The War on Wine
Prohibition, Neoprohibition, and American Culture
ISBN: 9781647791148
Pub Date: 7 November 2023
Format: Paperback
172 Pages
Throughout American history the prohibition and restriction of alcohol, including wine, has been part of what we now call culture wars. After losing the Prohibition Constitutional Amendment, anti-alcohol forces rebranded themselves as neoprohibitionists dedicated to the restriction of alcohol usage and they touted themselves as the counter-voice to alcohol organizations like the Wine Institute led by John A. De l.uca from 1976 to 2013.
Farm to Form
Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire
ISBN: 9781948908368
Pub Date: 4 March 2020
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Farm to Form is the first book to investigate the relationship between the rise of industrial food and the emergence of literary modernisms in Britain and Ireland. By weaving insights from modernist studies, food studies, and ecocriticism together, Farm to Form contends that industrial food production transformed the natural world into a “modernist” terrain that shaped new literary forms, positioning modernism as central to the study of narratives of resistance against social and environmental degradation.
Through a Vegan Studies Lens
Textual Ethics and Lived Activism
ISBN: 9781948908108
Pub Date: 20 February 2019
Format: Paperback
320 Pages
This edited collection showcases an international mix of activist scholars who maintain that a vegan studies perspective is an important addition to the cultural studies landscape. Through a Vegan Studies Lens broadens the scope of vegan studies by engaging in a variety of texts and contexts and examines vegan pedagogical praxis and vegan publishing, as well as intersections between vegan theory, critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and feminism.