The Rhetoric of Food | Discourse, Materiality, and Power

Joshua Frye (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 0415727561 / ISBN 13: 9780415727563

Published by Routledge, 2013

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The Rhetoric of Food | Discourse, Materiality, and Power | Joshua Frye (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2013 | Routledge | EAN 9780415727563 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rhetoric of Food | Discourse, Materiality, and Power
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415727561
• ISBN 13: 9780415727563
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 16D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 16 millimeters depth
• Weight: 418 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy. The essays visit a rich variety of dominant discourses and material practices through a range of media, channels, and settings including the White House, social movement rhetoric, televisual programming, urban gardens, farmers markets, domestic and international agriculture institutions, and popular culture. Rhetoricians address the cultural, political, and ecological motives and consequences of humans’ strategic symbolizing and attendant choice-making, visiting discourses and practices that have impact on our species in their producing, distributing, regulating, marketing, packaging, consuming, and talking about food. The essays in this book are representative of dominant and marginal discourses as well as perennial issues surrounding the rhetoric of food and include macro-, meso-, and micro-level analyses and case studies, from international neoliberal trade policies to media and social movement discourse to small group and interactional dynamics. This volume provides an excellent range and critical illumination of rhetoric’s role as both instrumental and constitutive force in food representations, and its symbolic and material effects.

About the Author

Joshua Frye is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oneonta, USA.

Michael S. Bruner is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Humboldt State University, USA.