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.
By:
David Goodman,
Michael Redclift
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780415067027
ISBN 10: 0415067022
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 12 September 1991
Audience:
College/higher education
,
General/trade
,
Professional & Vocational
,
Primary
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
David Goodman, Michael Redclift
Reviews for Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology and Culture
`David Goodman and Michael Redclift avoid simple cause-and-effect arguments in recounting this unsavoury tale of transformations in nature ... This is an ... impressive and depressing contribution to the political economy of food.' - New Statesman and Society `Refashioning Nature ought to be eagerly read in a culture that is obsessed with food.' - Social History