Food and Place: A Critical Exploration

by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli (Editor), Fernando J. Bosco (Editor)

Overview

This text provides a comprehensive and critical exploration of food from the unique perspective of place. It shows that our experiences with food are deeply influenced by their cultural, social, economic, and political contexts. The authors explore a wide range of questions such as: Do GM's threaten rural livelihoods? Why don’t we eat dogs? Does your neighborhood make you fat? Do community gardens encourage urban gentrification? Can cheese save a local economy? Why are gourmet burgers appearing on menus all over the world? How do immigrants use food to create a sense of place? Does mainstream nutrition stigmatize bodies? Is the kitchen an oppressive place? Can celebrity chefs change the food system? Critically engaged and connected to current activist and academic debates, Food and Place will be an essential resource for students across the social sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442266513
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/22/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli is professor of geography at and director of the Urban Studies Program at San Diego State University. Fernando Bosco is professor of geography and graduate advisor for the doctoral program in geography at San Diego State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Food and Place: An Introduction
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco
Chapter 2: A Place Perspective on Food: Key Concepts and Theoretical Foundations
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco

Part I: Food Regimes
Chapter 3: Networks of Global Production and Resistance: Meat, Dairy and Place
Alida Cantor, Jody Emel, and Harvey Neo
Chapter 4: Genetically Modified Crops and the Remaking of Latin America’s Food Landscape
Elizabeth Fitting
Chapter 5: Farm Labor, Immigration and Race
Lise Nelson
Chapter 6: Ethical Food and Global Commodity Chains
Hannah Evans and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
Chapter 7: Global Hunger: Poverty, Inequality, and Vulnerability
Daniel Ervin, Cascade Tuholske, and David López-Carr

Part II: Foodscapes
Chapter 8: Food and Gentrification: How Foodies are Transforming Urban Neighborhoods
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco
Chapter 9: Can Place Cause Obesity? A Critical Perspective on the Food Environment
Julie Guthman
Chapter 10: Food Banks and the Devolution of Anti-Hunger Policy
Daniel N. Warshawsky
Chapter 11: Spaces of Alternative Food: Urban Agriculture, Community Gardens,
and Farmers Markets
Fernando J. Bosco and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Part III: Bodies
Chapter 12: Food, Ethnicity, and Place: Producing Identity and Difference
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Zia Salim, and Vienne Vu
Chapter 13: Critical Nutrition: Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Bodily Nourishment
Jessica Hayes-Conroy and Allison Hayes-Conroy
Chapter 14: Food, Biopower, and the Child’s Body as a Scale of Intervention
Sarah E. Dempsey and Kristina E. Gibson
Chapter 15: Cooking at Home: Gender, Class, Race, and Social Reproduction
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Enrico Marcelli
Chapter 16: Chefs Celebrities, Experts, or Advocates?
Blaire O’Neal and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli
Glossary
Index

Editorial Reviews

Across the globe, how are food practices, from production to consumption, shaped by the spaces in which they occur, and, in turn, how do they transform places and contribute to place-making? This thoroughly engaging critical analysis takes us from GM's to gentrification and from bio-politics to body politics, making it a must read for activists and academics alike.

Julian Agyeman

Food and Place is a powerful collection of essays that explores the intimate relationships between what we eat and where we live—and how those relationships shape individual and geographic identities. Joassart-Marcelli and Bosco link global industrial food regimes to the landscapes they produce and the cultural meanings inherent in the food people ultimately consume. Their through-line is justice: for immigrant pickers and slaughterhouse workers, for urban communities facing food insecurity, and for diverse individuals confronting exclusionary food cultures. This is an important book for anyone interested in the critical role of food in our lives, livelihoods, and environments.

Jennifer Wolch

Food systems are as dynamic as the global economy they have developed within. Because of this, we require vigilant and far-reaching analyses of the changes within food systems and how, in turn, these place-based changes disrupt people’s lives. This excellent book, including some of today's most important scholars of food and place, does just this.

Nik Heynen

This is not a dry weighty compendium intended to be memorized and regurgitated at exam time. It is provocative and engaging reading offering fresh perspectives on the food challenges encountered in everyday life today.... Most engaging are the “food for thought” segments between chapters, which allow the reader to “digest” the material through reflection, activities, and recipes intended to get the reader out in the community as a participant-observer or in the kitchen as a critically aware cook.... In sum, Food and Place: A Critical Exploration is not only a fascinating college textbook, which, in this case, is not an oxymoron. But also it will resonate with the general public interested in provocative contemporary questions such as: Why don’t we eat dogs? Does your neighborhood make you fat? Do community gardens encourage urban gentrification? Can cheese save a local economy? Is the kitchen an oppressive place?

New York Journal of Books

This exciting and expansive book convincingly argues that place is an essential lens through which to view all aspects of the food system, from bodies to landscapes to global economic flows. It is essential reading for scholars, students, activists, and policy makers working to create a more just and sustainable food system.

Alison Alkon

Offering students lucid explanations of key concepts, this collection is an excellent introduction to today’s food and farming issues. Drawing on the latest research from multiple disciplines, the authors cover the central debates in areas such as ethical eating, social policy, and food politics. Students will come away with a deeper understanding of the spatiality of food practices, the ways food makes place, and how relations of power—race, gender, class—always shape these geographies.

Rachel Slocum