Ecopolitics of Consumption

H. Louise Davis is associate professor of American studies and chair of the Integrative Studies Department at Miami University of Ohio.Karyn Pilgrim is an associate professor of cultural studies at SUNY Empire State College.Madhudaya Sinha is lecturer in the Integrative Studies Department at Miami University of Ohio.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Oodles of Noodles: Nestlé India and the Maggi Consumer NightmareMadhu SinhaChapter 3: Spectacles of Revulsion: The Challenges of Bush-Tucker as Contemporary CuisineNicole AnaeChapter 4: “Pets or Food?”: Unstable Object Lessons in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, MiracleKaryn PilgrimChapter 5: Agvocates for Industry: Citizen-Farmers, Social Media, and the Gendered Production of FoodCori BrewsterChapter 6: The Politics of Food Behind BarsSalvador Jimenez MurgiaChapter 7: Live Feeds: Surveillance and the Food-Industrial ComplexDaniel GrinbergChapter 8: What Grows in Silicon Valley? The Emerging Ideology of Food TechnologyChristopher Miles & Nancy SmithChapter 9: Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Cuba’s Quest for Food Security in the Twenty-First CenturyMelanie Zeigler and Walt VanderbushChapter 10: The Political Economy of Food Production: The Low-Input Alternative to the Capital System’s High-Input Structural Dynamics Robert Drury KingChapter 11: He Who Feeds You Will Also Impose His Will on You”: Food Sovereignty Versus the Free MarketH. Louise DavisAbout the Contributors

A visceral, timely and deeply unsettling exploration of the malaise endemic to the global food system. This wonderful collection of essays bravely seeks to revitalize the concept of ecopolitics for our current era of neoliberal expansion.