Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals
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Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals

Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals

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Arve Hansen (Contributor) Karen Lykke Syse (Contributor)  

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This collection explains changing meat cultures through studies of both everyday food practices and the political economy of industrialized animal husbandry. We do this through case studies from 'affluent' and 'developing' countries. These contributions will shed light on global food connections and show how global, industrialized food and fodder systems have changed the way we relate to animals, their meat, and what kind of animals' meat we eat. In the past few years, controversies around meat have arisen around industrialization and globalization of meat production, often pivoting around health, environmental problems, and animal welfare issues. Although meat increasingly figures as a problem, most consumers' knowledge of animal husbandry and meat is more absent than ever. How is meat produced today, and where? How do we consume meat, and how have our consumption habits changed? Why have these changes occurred, and what are the social and cultural consequences of these changes? This book takes the reader on a geographic, ethnographic and historical journey to rural and urban areas and arenas across the world, and tells a series of stories of the dramatic changes in meat consumption. Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; Black & White Illustrations
Arve Hansen is Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo and coordinator of the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies.
  • Contributor: Arve Hansen
  • Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN13: 9781538142653
  • Number of Pages: 224
  • Packaged Dimensions: 162x237x22mm
  • Packaged Weight: 517
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release Date: 2021-12-06
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Arve Hansen is Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo and coordinator of the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies.

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