Ecopolitics of Consumption

This collection adds to the field of ecocritical theory by merging multidisciplinary approaches to food studies with the established ecocritical discourse of culture and the environment. With themes of confinement and control in the global industrial food systems, this book explores the role of consumption and commodification in contemporary life.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Oodles of Noodles: Nestlé India and the Maggi Consumer Nightmare
Madhu Sinha
Chapter 3: Spectacles of Revulsion: The Challenges of Bush-Tucker as Contemporary Cuisine
Nicole Anae
Chapter 4: "Pets or Food?": Unstable Object Lessons in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Karyn Pilgrim
Chapter 5: Agvocates for Industry: Citizen-Farmers, Social Media, and the Gendered Production of Food
Cori Brewster
Chapter 6: The Politics of Food Behind Bars
Salvador Jimenez Murgia
Chapter 7: Live Feeds: Surveillance and the Food-Industrial Complex
Daniel Grinberg
Chapter 8: What Grows in Silicon Valley? The Emerging Ideology of Food Technology
Christopher Miles & Nancy Smith
Chapter 9: Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Cuba's Quest for Food Security in the Twenty-First Century
Melanie Zeigler and Walt Vanderbush
Chapter 10: The Political Economy of Food Production: The Low-Input Alternative to the Capital System's High-Input Structural Dynamics
Robert Drury King
Chapter 11: He Who Feeds You Will Also Impose His Will on You": Food Sovereignty Versus the Free Market
H. Louise Davis
About the Contributors