Food, Senses and the City (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment)

By: Ferne Edwards and Roos Gerritsen and Grit Wesser

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Synopsis: This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. The volume includes the senses within the popular field of urban food studies to explore new understandings of how people live in cities and how we can understand cities through food. It reveals how the senses can provide unique insight into how the city and its dwellers are being reshaped and understood. Recognising cities as diverse and dynamic places, the book provides a wide range of case studies from food production to preparation and mediatisation through to consumption. These relationships are interrogated through themes of belonging and homemaking to discuss how food, memory, and materiality connect and disrupt past, present, and future imaginaries. As cities become larger, busier, and more crowded, this volume contributes to actual and potential ways that the senses can generate new understandings of how people live together in cities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies, urban studies, and socio-cultural anthropology.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 250 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000360707
Related ISBNs:: 9780367723620, 9780367458232, 9781003025580
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/24/21
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Ferne Edwards, Roos Gerritsen and Grit Wesser
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Ferne Edwards
Edited by:: Roos Gerritsen
Edited by:: Grit Wesser