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Feeding the City
Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city's workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world: only one lunch in six million goes astray. Feeding the City is an ethnographic study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai's dabbawalas. Cultural anthropologist Sara Roncaglia explains how they cater to the various dietary requirements of a diverse and increasingly global city, where the preparation and consumption of food is pervaded with religious and cultural significance. Developing the idea of "gastrosemantics" - a language with which to discuss the broader implications of cooking and eating - Roncaglia's study helps us to rethink our relationship to food at a local and global level.
From Oikonomia to Political Economy
Renaissance Europe witnessed a surge of interest in new scientific ideas and theories. Whilst the study of this 'Scientific Revolution' has dramatically shifted our appreciation of many facets of the early-modern world, remarkably little attention has been paid to its influence upon one key area; that of economics. Through an interrogation of the relationship between economic and scientific developments in early-modern Western Europe, this book demonstrates how a new economic epistemology appeared that was to have profound consequences both at the time, and for subsequent generations. Dr Maifreda argues that the new attention shown by astronomers, physicians, aristocrats, men of letters, tra...
States, Markets and Wars in Global History
This wide-ranging book focuses on the economic and political changes that have taken place between the advent of globalization and the COVID-19 pandemic and assesses how this may bring about a profound reconfiguration of the global political system. Sapelli considers a range of developments in different spheres, from international to national politics, military aggressions, and worldwide political trends such as the rise of populism, to illuminate the moment of neoliberal crisis in which we now live. He argues that Europe and its institutions in particular no longer demonstrate a model of diplomacy and statesmanship, with the rise of technocratic structures and elitism reflecting how an idea...
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Constitutional Crises and Regionalism
This informative book analyses regional constitutional crises, where a large portion of residents no longer believe that the rule of law, as defined by central institutions, governs them. Laying out a framework for effective governance in divided societies, Vito Breda argues that peace and collaboration are linked to managing shared beliefs through constitutional law.
Matteo Salvini. Italy, Europe and the New Right
Matteo Salvini is one of the most controversial up-and-coming figures on the European political scene. Since 2013 he has been the leader of Italian Lega - formerly a secessionist party which he himself transformed into the champion of the new nationalist right, a pendulum between Putin and Trump. In 2018 he became both the Vice-Prime Minister and the Minister of the Interior in a coalition government with the populist Five Star Movement. Accused of racism, Salvini has built his success on the social disorientation created by globalization and on the fear of immigration, using an aggressive and irreverent media campaign. But it’s also thanks to his political ability, developed during his long militancy in the party, which began when he was 17 years old, that he was able to recognize before others the new spirit of the times. According to most people, after the election in 2018, Salvini had in reality become the leader of Italian politics, with the goal of heading the nationalist front in Brussels after the European elections in May of 2019, and then, the next Italian government. This book is a map that seeks to answer one simple question: who is Matteo Salvini, really?
Si fa presto a dire insetto
Possiamo continuare ad alimentarci così? Oggi un europeo si nutre come se avesse a disposizione 2-3 pianeti e un americano 4 o 5. Il nostro sistema alimentare ha un impatto insostenibile sulle risorse naturali della terra e sulla biodiversità. Occorre ripensare e riprogettare l’intero sistema alimentare globale. A quel punto sarà il momento dell’ento-gastronomia. La stessa FAO promuove il ritorno dei piccoli animali delle campagne nell’alimentazione umana. Questo ebook, che nasce da un lavoro di molti anni, esplora in dettaglio il ruolo nutrizionale degli insetti anticipando un nuovo scenario alimentare tanto antico quanto moderno. Gli insetti hanno rappresentato nel nostro passato ...
106 tweet sul caffè dalle celebrità
Il caffè potrebbe essere un genere letterario o occupare un intero capitolo della storia del gusto, tanti sono gli autori che gli hanno dedicato un pensiero o lo hanno reso protagonista di una qualche situazione. E probabilmente è così proprio perché è molto di più di una bevanda: è un modo di essere e di sentire. Con il caffè sono stati perfino compiuti dei crimini difficilmente praticabili con altri mezzi, perché la sua credibilità è immensa ed è difficile rinunciarvi. Pure il web è all’insegna del caffè: il linguaggio Java ha come icona una tazzina e nelle coffee house sono nati i moderni media. In questo ebook, che si può leggere nel tempo che si prepara un caffè nero bollente, abbiamo raccolto i tweet di tutti quelli per cui ogni scusa è buona per gustarsene una tazzina. Ristretti, intensi e bollenti questi tweet vi aiuteranno a evitare l’insonnia.
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