Christopher Mayes

Unsettling Food Politics

Agriculture, Dispossession and Sovereignty in Australia

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Produktbeschreibung

This book uses current debates over Michel Foucault's method of genealogy as a practice of critique and historical problematization of the present to reveal the historical constitution of contemporary alternative food discourses.

Produktdetails

• Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781786600967
• ISBN-10: 178660096X
• Artikelnr.: 48696945

Autorenporträt

Christopher Mayes is a DECRA Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University and Research Affiliate with Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: beach barbeques, dispossession and problematization
1. Cultivating sovereignty: agriculture, racism, and the problem of settling Australia
2. Producing 'Little England': farmers, graziers, and the creation of home
3. Alternative problems, alternative solutions: security and sovereignty in the global food system
4. Whiteness and the contested spaces of alternative food
5. Unsettling food sovereignty in Australia
6. Whose sovereignty? Competing sovereignties and the tactical return to rights
7. Negotiating relations: food politics after the Uluru Statement from the Heart
Bibliography
Index