An ambitious synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship that extends the reach of analyses of how the contemporary food/health/wellness landscape is informed by and perpetuates the intersections of racism, classism, gender, and fat oppression.

Jennifer Brady, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada

'This intriguing book lays out the landscape of contemporary health enterprises, analysing the broader sociomaterial contexts in which influencers and entrepreneurs seek to persuade consumers to adopt novel technologies and substances, attempting to profit from people's desire to achieve optimum wellbeing and fitness. Anyone wanting to know more about these products, markets and the affective forces that drive them will find this book of great interest.

Deborah Lupton, Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia

This book critically examines contemporary health and wellness culture through the lens of personalization, genetification and functional foods. These developments have had a significant impact on the intersecting categories of gender, race, and class in light of the increasing adoption of digital health and surveillance technologies like MyFitnessPal, Lifesum, HealthyifyMe, and Fooducate. These three vectors of identity, when analysed in relation to food, diet, health, and technology, reveal significant new ways in which inequality, hierarchy, and injustice become manifest. In the book, Tina Sikka argues that the corporate-led trends associated with health apps, genetic testing, superfoods, and functional foods have produced a kind of dietary-genomic-functional food industrial complex. She makes the positive case for a prosocial, food secure, and biodiverse health and food culture that is rooted in community action, supported by strong public provisioning of health care, and grounded in principles of food justice and sovereignty.
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1. Introduction 2. Neoliberalism, the Biopolitics of Food & The Instrumentalization of Food 3. Personalised Nutrition, Dietary Apps, and the Genetification of Diets 4. Superfoods, Functional Foods and the Instrumentalization of Diets 5. Rethinking Personalisation and Prosocial Alternative Food Networks 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index
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An ambitious synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship that extends the reach of analyses of how the contemporary food/health/wellness landscape is informed by and perpetuates the intersections of racism, classism, gender, and fat oppression.
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Draws on social theory to show how health apps, genetic testing, and superfoods have exacerbated inequalities related to gender, race, and class.
Provides a positive alternative rooted in notions of sociality, innovative forms of food production and networks, and food justice
This interdisciplinary series represents a significant step towards unifying the study, teaching and research of food studies across the social sciences. The series features authoritative appraisals of core themes, debates and emerging research, written by leading scholars in the field. Titles are comprised of jargon-free introductions for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students in the social sciences and humanities, and research works on specific aspects of food-related topics for postgraduate students and scholars.
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ISBN
9781350202030
Publisert
2023-02-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
248

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Tina Sikka is Reader in Technoscience and Intersectional Justice at Newcastle University, UK.