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Food Values in Europe

Food Values in Europe

Hardcover

AnthropologyAgriculture

ISBN10: 1350084778
ISBN13: 9781350084773
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Sep 5 2019
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

What can a focus on food projects in Europe tell us about contemporary social processes and cultural debates? Valeria Siniscalchi and Krista Harper show how food becomes a marker of identity and resistance to social exclusion, and how food values become tools for transforming power dynamics at the local level and beyond. Through the comparison of food-centered movements across Europe, the book explains how these forms of mobilization express ideologies as well as economic and political objectives.

The chapters use an ethnographic approach to focus on the transformation of values carried by individuals and groups in relation to food in Portugal, Greece, Latvia, Moldova, Denmark, the UK, Italy, and France. Contributors analyze food values, as expressed in daily life and livelihoods, through specific practices of production, exchange, and consumption. Topics covered include Prague's urban agricultural scene, the perception of poverty in Moldova, shepherds' protests in Sardinia, and organic food cooperatives in Catalonia.

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