Stephanie Assmann

Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan (eBook, ePUB)

Nourishing National Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Food education initiatives exist worldwide, but Japan remains unique with its food education law known as shokuiku. The country's impressive health metrics - high life expectancies, low obesity, and affordable health care - often lead observers to praise this approach. This book presents a more nuanced analysis. First, it challenges the assumption that food education is wholly a "good thing" by exposing underlying power mechanisms. Through food diagrams, food fairs, and school lunch programs, government ministries promote both nationalism and traditional gender roles. Second, it explores how food education operates in Japan's rural regions, where educators champion resilience and food self-sufficiency to alleviate depopulation and economic decline. This emphasis on local food persisted even in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Using Foucault's concept of governmentality, historical contextualization, and extensive fieldwork in rural Japan, this study reveals the complex political agenda driving food education in a non-Western society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040786567
• Artikelnr.: 75630538

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Assmann's research interests are foodways and culinary politics, life in rural Japan, employment and diversity. She is co-editor of Japanese Foodways, Past and Present (with Eric C. Rath, 2010, University of Illinois Press) and editor of Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan: Challenges and Opportunities (2016, Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One - Food Education: A Theoretical Framework
Chapter Two - The Historical Trajectories of Food Education
Chapter Three - The Shokuiku Campaign: Food Governmentality in Present Japan
Chapter Four - Shokuiku Policies in Rural Areas
Chapter Five - Food Education and Sustainability in Times of Crisis
Moving Forward: Embracing Sustainability
References.