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Changing Food Habits
First published in 1999. This book examines process of change in African, South African and European countries by analysing the ways in which food is an integral part of ongoing ecological, economic, political and social transformations. It also provides research on dietary changes from direct intervention by people and agencies. The majority of these fascinating case studies are based on original fieldwork, they are quite diverse, as are the nature and scope of changes considered. The authors discuss rural as well as urban modes of food consumption, dietary changes in different societal contexts, and food-based rituals. The cases presented suggest alterative readings of some established models of changing food habits, and contribute to a more comprehensive history of dietary transformations.
The Essence of Japanese Cuisine
The past few years have shown a growing interest in cooking and food, as a result of international food issues such as BSE, world trade and mass foreign travel, and at the same time there has been growing interest in Japanese Studies since the 1970s. This volume brings together the two interests of Japan and food, examining both from a number of perspectives. The book reflects on the social and cultural side of Japanese food, and at the same time reflects also on the ways in which Japanese culture has been affected by food, a basic human institution. Providing the reader with the historical and social bases to understand how Japanese cuisine has been and is being shaped, this book assumes minimal familiarity with Japanese society, but instead explores the country through the topic of its cuisine.
Global Futures
This work looks beyond the problems of accelerating globalization to examine how humanity can shape it. The contributors suggest a variety of perspectives, changes, policies and institutional reforms to strive for in our increasingly inter-connected world.
Lebensadern der Globalisierung
Infrastrukturen werden oft als gegeben betrachtet. Sie geraten nur dann ins Rampenlicht der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit, wenn sie als "Lebensadern" der alltäglichen Praktiken ausfallen oder nicht so funktionieren wie erwartet. Häufig ist dann von "kritischen" Infrastrukturen die Rede. Mal geht es um soziale Infrastrukturen wie Bildung, Erziehung, Pflege oder Gesundheit. Vermehrt richtet sich der Blick aber auch auf jene Infrastrukturen, die für die ökonomische Globalisierung von grundlegender Bedeutung sind: - Handelswege, also Seerouten, Kanäle, Häfen, Bahnstrecken oder Flugrouten; - die Systeme der Energieversorgung, vor allem Stromnetze und Öl- oder Erdgas-Pipelines; - digitalisie...
Canadian-American Slavic Studies
A quarterly journal devoted to Russia and East Europe.
Trying to Grow
This book explores the negotiations at the inter- and intrafaces of knowledge and gender. It analyses the construction of gender and knowledge to reveal how innovations in agriculture either transform existing gender relations or unfold a transcending potential. The case studies on the cultivation of cowpeas, onions and soybeans by Dagombas and Kusasis show that supposedly gender-neutral agricultural innovations become contested fields when men and women are "Trying to Grow". The contextualisation and social connotation of a crop decides over women's participation in rural development. The book throws a fresh light on the management of agricultural knowledge.
Colonial Food in Interwar Paris
In the wake of the First World War, in which France suffered severe food shortages, colonial produce became an increasingly important element of the French diet. The colonial lobby seized upon these foodstuffs as powerful symbols of the importance of the colonial project to the life of the French nation. But how was colonial food really received by the French public? And what does this tell us about the place of empire in French society? In Colonial Food in Interwar Paris, Lauren Janes disputes the claim that empire was central to French history and identity, arguing that the distrust of colonial food reflected a wider disinterest in the empire. From Indochinese rice to North African grains and tropical fruit to curry powder, this book offers an intriguing and original challenge to current orthodoxy about the centrality of empire to modern France by examining the place of colonial foods in the nation's capital.
