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  • The Real Cost of Cheap Food
    Michael Carolan
    This thought-provoking, accessible book examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us. The book is essential reading for those interested in critical food studies, food and agriculture and a sustainable and socially just food system. ...
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    73,32 €

  • Society and the Environment
    Michael S Carolan
    The fourth edition of Society and the Environment centers its discussion on realistic solutions to the problems that persist and examines current controversies within a socio-organizational context, shifting focus away from simply explaining what is wrong with the world around us. ...
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    102,12 €

  • The Sociology of Food and Agriculture
    Michael Carolan
    Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society. The book begins by examining the food economy, with chapters focusing on foodscapes, the financialization of food, and a new chapter dedicated to food and nutrition (in)security. In Part II, the book add...
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    74,84 €

  • Embodied Food Politics
    Michael S. Carolan
    While the phenomenon of embodied knowledge is becoming integrated into the social sciences, critical geography, and feminist research agendas it continues to be largely ignored by agro-food scholars. This book helps fill this void by inserting into the food literature living, feeling, sensing bodies and will be of interest to food scholars as well as those more generally intere...
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    104,62 €

  • Cheaponomics
    Michael Carolan
    The real cost of low prices is alarmingly high. In this compelling book, Michael Carolan shows that costs and risks are socialised: we all pay for cheapness, but not at the point of purchase. Drawing on a wide range of examples and issues, it is convincingly shown that cheapness can no longer be seen as such a bargain. Instead we need to refocus for a better sense of well-being...
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    77,44 €

  • Reclaiming Food Security
    Michael S. Carolan
    In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible. A secure food system is one that affords people and nations - in both the present and future - the capabilities to prosper and lead long, happy, and healthy lives. The author introduces a new Food and Human Security Index in an original at...
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    77,47 €