Political Language of Food (eBook)

Samuel Boerboom is assistant professor of media studies in the Department of Communication and Theatre at Montana State University Billings.

Introduction: How does food language function politically?Samuel BoerboomChapter 1Tracing the “Back to the Land” Trope: Self-Sufficiency, Counterculture, and CommunityJessica M. ProdyChapter 2 Végétariens Radicaux: John Oswald and the Trope of Sympathy in Revolutionary ParisJustin Killian Chapter 3 The Revolution Will Not Be (Food) Reviewed: Politics of Agitation and Control of Occupy KitchenAmy PasonChapter 4 Haute Colonialism: Exocitizing Povery in Bizarre Foods AmericaCasey Ryan KellyChapter 5 Pungent Yet Problematic: The Class-Based Framing of Ramps in the New York Times and the Charleston GazetteMelissa BoehmChapter 6Constructing Taste and Waste as Habitus: Food and Matters of Access and In/SecurityLeda CooksChapter 7Tying the Knot: How Industry and Advocacy Organizations Market Language as HumaneJoseph L. Abisaid Chapter 8Corn Allergy: Public Policy, Private DevastationKathy Brady Chapter 9 Family Farms with Happy Cows: A Narrative Analysis of Horizon Organic Dairy Packaging LabelsJennifer L. AdamsChapter 10Chipotle Mexican Grill’s Meatwashing Propaganda: Corporate-Speak Hiding Suffering of “Commodity” AnimalsEllen W. GorsevskiChapter 11Corporate Colonization in the Market: Discursive Closures and the Greenwashing of Food DiscourseMegan A. Koch and Cristin A. Compton Chapter 12Mistaken Consensus and the Body-as-Machine AnalogySamuel Boerboom