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In Food, John Coveney examines `food as¿¿ identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment, justice, and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human.

In Food, John Coveney examines `food as¿¿ identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment, justice, and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human.

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As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure and political power, food is and has been an enduring requirement of human biological, social and cultural existence. In each chapter of Food, Coveney explores `Food as'' to look at the different facets, and interconnections, of food and eating in contemporary social life.

Traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with diet, self-discipline and food guilt. Exploring why our appetite for food pleasures makes us feel anxious, this book is useful for those studying nutrition, public health, sociology of health and illness, and sociology of the body.

Traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with diet, self-discipline and food guilt. Exploring why our appetite for food pleasures makes us feel anxious, this book is useful for those studying nutrition, public health, sociology of health and illness, and sociology of the body.

This book explores the links between food and democracy.  It addresses how democratic principles can be used to shape our food system and takes a practical ‘how-to’ approach to using democratic processes to regain control of the food we eat. It also highlights what food democracy looks like on the ground and how individuals, communities and societies can be empowered to access, cook and eat healthy food in ways that are sustainable.Food democr...

While there is not one global definition of the term ‘food poverty, ’ the evidence from the chapters in this book suggest food poverty can be seen from three perspectives: 1) the causes and constraints facing both individuals, households, communities and policy makers, 2) constrained choices or the ‘lived experience’ and 3) the health impacts or outcomes. As a working definition of food poverty, this approach suggests that where constraints ar...