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

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Disciplina: 178
• Soggetto topico: Food - Moral and ethical aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): RawlinsonMary C.; WardCaleb
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Global food, global justice
• ISBN: 1-4438-8234-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461170403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II