The Political Language of Food (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Boerboom, Samuel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Political Language of Food addresses why the language used in the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is inherently political. Food language is rarely neutral and is often strategically vague, which tends to serve the interests of powerful entities.Boerboom and his contributors critique the language of food-based messages and examine how such language-including idioms, tropes, euphemisms, invented terms, etc.-serves to both mislead and obscure relationships between food and the resulting community, health, labor, and environmental impacts. Employing diverse methodologies, the contributors examine on a micro-level the textual and rhetorical elements of food-based language itself. The Political Language of Food is both timely and important and will appeal to scholars of media studies, political communication, and rhetoric.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498505567
• Artikelnr.: 43815848

Autorenporträt

Edited by Samuel Boerboom - Contributions by Joe Abisaid; Jennifer Adams; Melissa Boehm; Samuel Boerboom; Kathy Brady; Cristin A. Compton; Leda Cooks; Ellen Gorsevski; Casey Ryan Kelly; Justin Killian; Megan A. Koch; Amy Pason and Jessica Prody

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: How does food language function politically? Samuel Boerboom
Chapter 1 Tracing the "Back to the Land" Trope: Self-Sufficiency,
Counterculture, and Community Jessica M. Prody Chapter 2 Végétariens
Radicaux: John Oswald and the Trope of Sympathy in Revolutionary Paris
Justin Killian Chapter 3 The Revolution Will Not Be (Food) Reviewed:
Politics of Agitation and Control of Occupy Kitchen Amy Pason Chapter 4
Haute Colonialism: Exocitizing Povery in Bizarre Foods America Casey Ryan
Kelly Chapter 5 Pungent Yet Problematic: The Class-Based Framing of Ramps
in the New York Times and the Charleston Gazette Melissa Boehm Chapter 6
Constructing Taste and Waste as Habitus: Food and Matters of Access and
In/Security Leda Cooks Chapter 7 Tying the Knot: How Industry and Advocacy
Organizations Market Language as Humane Joseph L. Abisaid Chapter 8 Corn
Allergy: Public Policy, Private Devastation Kathy Brady Chapter 9 Family
Farms with Happy Cows: A Narrative Analysis of Horizon Organic Dairy
Packaging Labels Jennifer L. Adams Chapter 10 Chipotle Mexican Grill's
Meatwashing Propaganda: Corporate-Speak Hiding Suffering of "Commodity"
Animals Ellen W. Gorsevski Chapter 11 Corporate Colonization in the Market:
Discursive Closures and the Greenwashing of Food Discourse Megan A. Koch
and Cristin A. Compton Chapter 12 Mistaken Consensus and the
Body-as-Machine Analogy Samuel Boerboom