Refashioning nature : food, ecology and culture

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Refashioning nature : food, ecology and culture

David Goodman and Michael Redclift

Routledge, 1991

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 257-271

Includes index

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ISBN 9780415067027

内容説明

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.

目次

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
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780415067034

内容説明

We live in a society as dominated by food as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little. Food as the ultimate commodity in an economic system lies at the base of global development and interdependence; food, from cultivation to consumption, provides the chief link between humankind and the "natural" environment. Yet, technological advances - in genetics, agri-business and food processing - have combined with changing patterns of diet and (women's) employment to challenge our perception of the natural and of our position within a natural system. At this point of dislocation, global crisis and conscience have sharpened the ideological force of "Nature". "Refashioning Nature" analyzes the apparently opposed imperatives of political economy and sustainability. The authors argue that the present means of food production do not satisfy the demands of North and South, resulting rather in food shortages and surplus and environmental destruction. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in environmental science/studies, geography, development, economics, sociology, agricultural science and cultural studies.

目次

Introduction I. Food into Freezers: Women into Factories II. The Passing of Rural Society III. The Origins of the Modern Agri-Food System IV. Internationalisation and the Third World Food System V. Engineering Life: Agri-Biotechnologies and the Food System VI. The Food System and the Environment VII. Conclusion: Counter Revolution Bibliography.

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