Food, Power, and Agency - Bog - Hardback

Food, Power, and Agency

This exciting book explores fundamental questions about the operation of power and agency in modern societies. Grounded in the work of Bruno Latour, Pierre Bourdieu, and Michel Foucault, it uses food as a lens to examine agency and the political, economic, social, and cultural power which underlies every choice of food and every act of eating.The book is divided into three parts - Food, Cultural Capital and Cultural Transfer; Food Workers and the Work of Food; Food, Fat and Self - with each of the..