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.
Author(s): Simon C. Estok, S. Susan Deborah, Rayson K. Alex
Series: Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 206
City: New York
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
