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Food Justice and Narrative Ethics: Reading Stories for Ethical Awareness and Activism

Autor Dr Beth A. Dixon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 sep 2018
Beth A. Dixon explores how food justice impacts on human lives. Stories and reports in national media feature on the one hand hunger, famine and food scarcity, and on the other, rising rates of morbid obesity and health issues. Other stories-food justice narratives-illustrate how to correct the ethical damage created by the first type of story. They detail the nature of oppression and structural injustice, and show how these conditions constrain choices, truncate moral agency, and limit opportunities to live well. With stories from national media, food and farming memoirs, and scholarly ethnographies, Dixon reveals how different food narratives are constructed, and enable identification of just solutions to issues surrounding food insecurity, farm labor, and the lived experience of obesity. Drawing on Aristotle's concept of ethical perception, Dixon demonstrates how we can use narratives to enhance our understanding and ethical competence about injustice in relation to food. Food Justice and Narrative Ethics is a must-read for students of food studies, philosophy, and media studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350054547
ISBN-10: 1350054542
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Combines food studies and narrative ethics from philosophy to make this a useful tool for students working on food studies courses in relation to food, philosophy courses in relation to food, and media studies looking at the construction and philosophy behind media narratives

Notă biografică

Beth A. Dixon is Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York College, USA.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Ethical Perception 2: Developing Narrative Skill 3: Food Insecurity: Hungry Women 4: Rewriting the Call To Charity 5: Farmworkers: "It Is Very Ugly Here"6: Obesity, Responsibility, and Situated Agency7: Practicing Philosophy NotesReferencesIndex

Recenzii

"Beth Dixon skillfully combines scholarship and storytelling to show how we can better see injustices in the food system. This book is insightful, engaging and compelling. A must-read for any serious student of and advocate for a more effective and just food system."
"This innovative collection brings together a series of narratives to explore critical topics relating to food insecurity, farm labor, and obesity. Instead of giving us ethical principles or telling us how we should think about food-related topics, the approach permits us to develop our reactions and perceptions through the detailed stories provided, together with our engagement with them. The rich methodology developed here should prove invaluable for future investigations of food-related topics and beyond."
"In focusing on ethical reasoning, Dixon offers a fresh perspective to the burgeoning scholarly literature on food justice."
"Dixon's book offers a timely analysis of one of the most pressing challenges at the intersection of hunger relief and food justice; how the stories we tell can perpetuate or expose injustice. It's time to challenge the dominant narrative of hunger, share true and complicated stories, and expose the root causes of poverty. Only then can we begin to build an equitable food system for all."