Food and Media: Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias

Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias

By Jonatan Leer, Karen Klitgaard Povlsen | Publisher: Taylor and Francis

About the book

Food is everywhere in contemporary mediascapes, as witnessed by the increase in cookbooks, food magazines, television cookery shows, online blogs, recipes, news items and social media posts about food. This mediatization of food means that the media often interplays between food consumption and everyday practices, between private and political matters and between individuals, groups, and societies.

This volume argues that contemporary food studies need to pay more attention to the significance of media in relation to how we 'do' food. Understanding food media is particularly central to the diverse contemporary social and cultural practices of food where media use plays an increasingly important but also differentiated and differentiating role in both large-scale decisions and most people's everyday practices.

The contributions in this book offer critical studies of food media discourses and of media users' interpretations, negotiations and uses that construct places and spaces as well as possible identities and everyday practices of sameness or otherness that might form new, or renew old food politics.

Editions of Food and Media: Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias

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ISBN 9781317134527
PDF
ISBN 9781317134534

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Food is everywhere in contemporary mediascapes, as witnessed by the increase in cookbooks, food magazines, television cookery shows, online blogs, recipes, news items and social media posts about food. This mediatization of food means that the media often interplays between food consumption and everyday practices, between private and political matters and between individuals, groups, and societies.

This volume argues that contemporary food studies need to pay more attention to the significance of media in relation to how we 'do' food. Understanding food media is particularly central to the diverse contemporary social and cultural practices of food where media use plays an increasingly important but also differentiated and differentiating role in both large-scale decisions and most people's everyday practices.

The contributions in this book offer critical studies of food media discourses and of media users' interpretations, negotiations and uses that construct places and spaces as well as possible identities and everyday practices of sameness or otherness that might form new, or renew old food politics.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Food and Media: Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias about?

Food is everywhere in contemporary mediascapes, as witnessed by the increase in cookbooks, food magazines, television cookery shows, online blogs, recipes, news items and social media posts about food. This mediatization of food means that the media often interplays between food consumption and everyday practices, between private and political matters and between individuals, groups, and societies.

This volume argues that contemporary food studies need to pay more attention to the significance of media in relation to how we 'do' food. Understanding food media is particularly central to the diverse contemporary social and cultural practices of food where media use plays an increasingly important but also differentiated and differentiating role in both large-scale decisions and most people's everyday practices.

The contributions in this book offer critical studies of food media discourses and of media users' interpretations, negotiations and uses that construct places and spaces as well as possible identities and everyday practices of sameness or otherness that might form new, or renew old food politics.

What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Food and Media: Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias?

Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning > Geography > Human geography

Where can I read a sample of Food and Media: Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias?

You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781317134527

Is Food and Media: Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?

Yes it is a part of series Critical Food Studies

Who is/are the Author/s of the book Food and Media: Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias?

Jonatan Leer, Karen Klitgaard Povlsen

Who is the Publisher of the book Food and Media: Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias?

Taylor and Francis

What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?

Food and Media: Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias is available as ebook(ISBN 9781317134527) and pdf(ISBN 9781317134534)