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Is shopping for food really a political act? Why is it that, in a world with enough food for everyone, more people than ever go hungry? Why did the French resistance against genetically modified foods become a fight against McDonalds? Why did the foot-and-mouth epidemic in the UK become a problem for consumers? Capable of connecting human bodies to abstract nations, and techno-science to moral concerns, food has become one of the most contested fields of our time. It is high on the political agenda throughout the world. With disease, contamination, famine, hunger and imbalanced food markets all unfortunate realities, a book that interrogates the politics of food is long overdue. From the BSE outbreak in the 1990s through to cultural taboos and the genetic modification of produce and livestock, this timely book raises provocative questions about how we relate to food in the 21st century. Recent food scandals and genetically modified organism controversies have shattered the idea that 'food is food' as we have always known it, and exposed fundamental dilemmas related to risk and control. Taking as its starting point the premise that food is politicized in arenas not commonly thought of as political, The Politics of Food explores issues surrounding the development of global food markets in underdeveloped nations and addresses recent events that have had a profound impact on how consumers feel about what they eat. The epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease that swept through the UK in 2001 spawned a series of questions concerning the real costs of cheap food. What lessons have been learned? And how are food choices linked to the politics of food markets? With globalization, food has increasingly become entangled in webs of political significance. Through ethnographic case studies, this book reveals how food has come to serve a key role in political resistance, grassroots activism and nation-building. Anyone interested in globalization, food safety, or what food choices sa

Contributors vii
Acknowledgements xi
1 The Politics of Food: An Introduction 1
Marianne Elisabeth Lien
Part I Food, Risk and Blame 19
2 Handling Food-related Risks: Political Agency and Governmentality 21
Bente Halkier
3 Risk, Blame and Culture: Foot and Mouth Disease and the 39
Debate about Cheap Food
Brigitte Nerlich
4 The Rhetoric of Food: Food as Nature, Commodity and Culture 59
Eivind Jacobsen
Part II Nation and Nurture 79
5 Risky Science and Savoir-faire: Peasant Expertise in the French 81
Debate over Genetically Modified Crops
Chaia Heller
6 Enjoyment and Choice in an Age of Risk: The Case of BSE 101
in the Czech Republic
Haldis Haukanes
7 Western Food and the Making of the Japanese Nation-state 121
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka
8 The Politics of Taste and Smell: Palestinian Rites of Return 141
Efrat Ben-Ze’ev
Part III Global Rules, Routes and Access 161
9 Grades and Standards in the Social Construction of Safe Food 163
Lawrence Busch
10 Dogs, Whales and Kangaroos: Transnational Activism and 179
Food Taboos
Marianne Elisabeth Lien
11 The Political Economy of Food in an Unequal World 199
Keith Hart
Epilogue: On the Legacy of The Politics of Food 221
Anne Murcott
Index 235
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