Bibliograph

The political language of food, edited by Samuel Boerboom

Type

Label

The political language of food, edited by Samuel Boerboom

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The political language of food

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

903675285

Responsibility statement

edited by Samuel Boerboom

Summary

"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" -- Back cover

Table Of Contents

Tracing the "back to the land" trope : self-sufficiency, counterculture, and community / Jessica M. Prody -- Végétariens radicaux : John Oswald and the trope of sympathy in revolutionary Paris / Justin Killian -- The revolution will not be (food) reviewed : politics of agitation and control of occupy kitchen / Amy Pason -- Haute colonialism : exocitizing povery in bizarre foods America / Casey Ryan Kelly -- Pungent yet problematic : the class-based framing of ramps in the New York Times and the Charleston Gazette / Melissa Boehm -- Constructing taste and waste as habitus : food and matters of access and in/security / Leda Cooks -- Tying the knot : how industry and advocacy organizations market language as humane / Joseph L. Abisaid -- Corn allergy : public policy, private devastation / Kathy Brady -- Family farms with happy cows : a narrative analysis of horizon organic dairy packaging labels / Jennifer L. Adams -- Chipotle Mexican Grill's meatwashing propaganda : corporate-speak hiding suffering of "commodity" animals / Ellen W. Gorsevski -- Corporate colonization in the market : discursive closures and the greenwashing of food discourse / Megan A. Koch and Cristin A. Compton -- Mistaken consensus and the body-as-machine analogy / Samuel Boerboom

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