SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Soil Fertility, Malthusian Trap, Externality
19 Oct 2020
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Food is : a biological requirement, a product of our environments, a commodity in the marketplace. Sugar- the rich had it: an object of emotions, a ritual object. Throwing rice: a symbol, a political object. Discourse: discourse: a way of understanding a phenomenon or an issue that circulates through a society and is enacted through everyday practices . Food discourse: food serves as a type of code . The messages will reveal different degrees of inclusion, exclusion and transactions across boundaries (douglas, 1972: sugar was a code of who mattered back then. Healthy eating discourse: is a particular way of understanding healthy eating that circulates through society and is reproduced (and sometimes resisted) through people"s eating practices. (koc et al 2017) Food system: components, dynamics and interactions, bounded, nested, anthropocentric. Nested levels - temporal and spatial interactions and feedback between them. Consumers is us which is the 7 billion consumers, and the top of the hourglass would be.
