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  • The Real Cost of Cheap Food

    by Michael Carolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.The author shows why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what it promises. The food produced under this regime is in fact exceedingly expensive. Many of these costs will ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Cheaponomics

    The High Cost of Low Prices

    by Michael Carolan ...
    Do you really think you are getting a good deal when given that free mobile phone for switching service providers, if a multinational retailer undercuts its competitors or by the fact that food is relatively cheaper today in many countries than ever before?Think again! As Michael Carolan clearly shows in this compelling book, cheapness is an illusion. The real cost of low prices is alarmingly high ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Food and Agriculture

    by Michael Carolan ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    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 addresses community and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A Decent Meal

    Building Empathy in a Divided America

    by Michael Carolan ...
    A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food.While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    A Decent Meal

    Building Empathy in a Divided America

    by Michael Carolan ...
    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our dinner tables, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • No One Eats Alone

    Food as a Social Enterprise

    by Michael S. Carolan ...
    In today’s fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating alone, all the time—whether it’s at their desks or in the car. Even those who find time for a family meal are cut off from the people who grew, harvested, distributed, marketed, and sold the foods on their table. Few ever break bread with anyone outside their own socioeconomic group. So why does Michael Carolan say that that no ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Society and the Environment

    Pragmatic Solutions to Ecological Issues

    by 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. Introducing this “pragmatic environmentalism,” Carolan discusses the complex pressures and variables that exist where ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • The Food Sharing Revolution

    How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way We Eat

    by Michael S. Carolan ...
    Marvin is a contract hog farmer in Iowa. He owns his land, his barn, his tractor, and his animal crates. He has seen profits drop steadily for the last twenty years and feels trapped. Josh is a dairy farmer on a cooperative in Massachusetts. He doesn’t own his cows, his land, his seed, or even all of his equipment. Josh has a healthy income and feels like he’s made it.In The Food Sharing ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Embodied Food Politics

    by Michael S. Carolan ...
    Series series Critical Food Studies
    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 interested in the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Decentering Biotechnology

    Assemblages Built and Assemblages Masked

    by Michael S. Carolan ...
    Decentering Biotechnology explores the nature of technology, objects and patent law. Investigating the patenting of organic life and the manner in which artifacts of biotechnology are given their object-ive appearance, Carolan details the enrollment mechanisms that give biotechnology its momentum. Drawing on legal judgements and case studies, this fascinating book examines the nature of object ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Food Security

    by Michael S. Carolan ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    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. For a variety of reasons, food security has come to be synonymous with cheap calorie security. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Biological Economies

    Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers

    Edited by Richard Le Heron, Hugh Campbell, Nick Lewis, Michael Carolan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges. These can be summarized as: ‘more than human’ approaches to economic life; a ‘post-structural political economy’ of food and agriculture; and calls for ... Read more

    $65.99 USD