| Anxious Appetites: Food and Consumer Culture Contributor(s): Jackson, Peter (Author), Goodman, David (Editor), Goodman, Michael K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472588142 ISBN-13: 9781472588142 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Agriculture & Food - Social Science | Human Geography - Social Science | Customs & Traditions |
| Dewey: 394.12 |
| LCCN: 2015006534 |
| Series: Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.13 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite government claims that food is safer and more readily available today than ever before, recent survey evidence demonstrates high levels of food-related anxiety among Western consumers. While chronic hunger and malnutrition are relatively rare in the West, food scares relating to individual products, concerns about global food security and other expressions of consumer anxiety about food remain widespread. Anxious Appetites explores the causes of these present-day anxieties. Looking at fears over provenance and regulation in a world of lengthening supply chains and greater concentration of corporate power, Peter Jackson investigates how anxieties about food circulate and how they act as a channel for broader social issues. Drawing on case studies such as the 2013 horsemeat scandal and fears about the contamination of infant formula in China in 2008, he examines how and why these concerns emerge. Comparing survey results with ethnographic observation of consumer practice, he explores the gap between official advice about food safety and people's everyday experience of food, including a critique of ideological notions of 'consumer choice'. A captivating, timely book which presents a new theory of social anxiety. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jackson, Peter: - Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the editor of Changing Families, Changing Food (2009), co-editor of The Handbook of Food Research (2013) and lead author of Food Words: Essays in Culinary Culture (2013). He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Victoria Medal in 2007 and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Besides his academic work, he also chairs the Social Science Research Committee of the UK Food Standards Agency. |