Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology and Culture - Hardcover

Goodman, David; Redclift, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415067022 ISBN 13: 9780415067027

Publisher: Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little. In this accessible, cross-disciplinary text, David Goodman and Michael Redclift look at the development of the modern food system, integrating different bodies of knowledge and debate concerning food, agriculture, the environment and the household. They link changes in our diet and concern with the environment to many of the problems afflicting developing countries: food shortages, poor nutrition and wholesale environmental destruction.

About this title

About the Author:

David Goodman is Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Michael Redclift is Reader in Rural Sociology at Wye College, University of London. He is the author of Sustainable Development and Development and the Environmental Crisis (Methuen/Routledge, 1987 and 1984, respectively).

Review:

`David Goodman and Michael Redclift avoid simple cause-and-effect arguments in recounting this unsavoury tale of transformations in nature ... This is an ... impressive and depressing contribution to the political economy of food.' - New Statesman and Society

`Refashioning Nature ought to be eagerly read in a culture that is obsessed with food.' - Social History

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0415067022
• ISBN 13: 9780415067027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 298