Food Words

Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield where he leads the CONANX research group which focuses on consumer culture in an 'age of anxiety' with a particular interest in consumer anxieties about food.

• Foreword by Warren BelascoIntroduction: Writing Food Words, by Peter JacksonList of ContributorsThe Essays Advertising / Aesthetics / Anxiety / Appetite / Artisan / AuthenticityBody / BrandsCelebrity Chefs / Choice / Class / Commodities / Consumption / Convenience / CookingDrinkingEating / Ecology / Emotion / ExoticFarming / Foodscapes / FreshGender / Gourmet / GovernanceHungerInnovationKitchensLabelling / Local-globalMarkets / Materialities / Media / Memory / Moral economyNutritionPackaging / Pleasure / Practices / ProvenanceQualityRace/ethnicity / Responsibility / RiskSafety / Science / Security/insecurity / Sex / Shopping / Skill / Space/place / SustainabilityTaste / Technologies / Time / Tradition / TrustValue/valuesWaste / WorkGuide to Further ReadingReferencesIndex

This volume is a welcome contribution to the growing public conversation about food in our world today. By locating key terms in these discussions within shifting and contested landscapes of meaning, it reveals the complexities and contradictions glossed by simpler assertions, and provides a much-needed foundation for a more robust, critical understanding of the forces shaping contemporary food and foodways.