Anthropocene Ecologies of Food: Notes from the Global South

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Anthropocene Ecologies of Food provides a detailed exploration of cross-cultural aspects of food production, culinary practices, and their ecological underpinning in culture. The authors draw connections between humans and the entire process of global food production, focusing on the broad implications these processes have within the geographical and cultural context of India. Each chapter analyzes and critiques existing agricultural/food practices, and representations of aspects of food through various media (such as film, literature, and new media) as they relate to global issues generally and Indian contexts specifically, correcting the omission of analyses focused on the Global South in virtually all of the work that has been done on "Anthropocene ecologies of food." This unique volume employs an ecocritical framework that connects food with the land, in physical and virtual communities, and the book as a whole interrogates the meanings and implications of the Anthropocene itself. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction Food Systems and Ecological Well-Being Notes References Part I Bioregion, Diversity, Food 1 Rice and the Anthropocene in the Southern Indian Peninsula Food Heterarchy Food Hierarchy Rice Homoarchy Rice Homeoarchy Neo-tiṇaicene Notes References 2 The Taste of Place Food, Ecology, and Culture in Kodagu Introduction Anthropocene Geographies of the Kodagu Bioregion What Is Bioregional Eating? Bioregional Ecologies of Food Food and Bioregional Culture Conclusion Notes References 3 This Compost! India and the History of Global Organic Farming Notes References Part II Intercultural Food Practices 4 Environmental Food Documentaries From Fast Food Nation to a Popular Selection of Top 20 YouTube Videos Literature Overview Food Security and Sovereignty—Rewilding Tobacco as a Food Allegory From Hippy Cultures to Veganism Farming Development: From Organic to High-Tech Production Sustainable Food Production: Fast Food Nation Folk Over Knives Animating The True Cost of Food Dirt! The Movie The Power of Metaphor and Developing a Utopian Imagination The Future of Food Audience Reception of Food Documentary: The Turn Towards Environmental Literacy Concluding Remarks Wendell Berry: “Eating Is an Environmental Act” and a Political Act Notes References 5 Bacalhau in England and Goa A Case Study of Economy, Ecology, and the Assignation of Value in the Global South, ... Notes References 6 The Future of Food Trajectories in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl Notes References 7 Metaphors and Metonymies of Food in Four Asian Texts Note References Part III Crises, Disintegration, Food 8 Agrarian Distress and Food Sovereignty in the Anthropocene A Reading of Namita Waikar’s The Long March Notes References 9 Dalit Food, Ecology, and Resistance Dalit Food and Habitat Beef, the Symbol of Dalit Resistance Conclusion Notes References Afterword Toward Shifts in Global Food Systems Notes References Index