The Psychopolitics of Food
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-54984-5 (ISBN)
The Psychopolitics of Food probes into the contemporary ‘foodscape’, examining culinary practices and food habits and in particular the ways in which they conflate with neoliberal political economy. It suggests that generic alimentary and culinary practices constitute technologies of the self and the body and argues that the contemporary preoccupation with food takes the form of ‘rites of passage’ that express and mark the transition from a specific stage of neoliberal development to another vis-à-vis a re-configuration of the alimentary and sexual regimes.
Even though these rites of passage are taking place on the borders of cultural bi-polarities, their function, nevertheless, is precisely to define these borders as sites of a neoliberal transitional demand; that is, to produce a cultural bifurcation between ‘eating orders’ and ‘eating dis-orders’, by promoting and naturalising certain social logics while simultaneously rendering others as abject and anachronistic.
The book is a worthwhile read for researchers and advanced scholars in the areas of food studies, critical psychology, anthropology and sociology.
Mihalis Mentinis completed this work as part of a postdoctoral research project in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Intercultural Indigenous Studies (ICIIS), at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He now lives and works in Athens, Greece.
Acknowledgements
Preface
Dedication
Table of contents
Introduction: Culinary Rites of Passage in the Neoliberal Age
Chapter 1: From Unemployment to ‘Creative’ Adaptability: Romanticised Chefs and the Psychopolitics of Gastroporn
Chapter 2: From the Semiotic to the Symbolic: Placentophagy and the Name-of- the-Chef
Chapter 3: From Colonialism to Neoliberal Multiculturalism: A Mapuche Spice in the Chilean National Cuisine
Chapter 4: From East to West: Economic Crisis and the Cooking of the New Greeks
Chapter 5: From Eating to Starving: Gastrosexual Men and Anorectic Women
Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Anorectic Cannibalism
References
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.05.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Concepts for Critical Psychology |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 158 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-54984-3 / 1138549843 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-54984-5 / 9781138549845 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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