Sökning: "Food Politics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden Food Politics.

1. 1. Food for Naught : The politics of food in agricultural modernization for African smallholder food security

   Författare :Cheryl Sjöström; LUCSUS; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; global food system; smallholder food security; sub-Saharan Africa; agricultural modernization; critical discourse analysis; power; politics of food; Millennium Villages Project; Malawi;

   Sammanfattning : Why is there hunger in sub-Saharan Africa? What forces drive the global food system? What is the global food system? To approach these questions, this study investigates power and politics in food, in its production and in its organization. Proceeding from a critical realist approach, focus of this study is on the challenge of African smallholder food insecurity and how it is presented as part of a dominant discourse of agricultural modernization. LÄS MER

3. 2. Children's lived rights : The everyday politics of asylum-seeking children

   Författare :Sandra Karlsson; Karin Aronsson; Mats Trondman; Nihad Bunar; Anna Lundberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; everyday politics; asylum politics; deportability; no-go zones; lived rights; lived fears; politics of play; agency; navigation; play tactics; belonging; emotions; articulations; standpoints; home; regulations; ethnography; children’s geographies; barn- och ungdomsvetenskap; Child and Youth Studies;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores asylum-seeking children’s everyday politics in relation to their situation in the Swedish reception system. It engages in a theorization of children’s political agency in which a broad definition of politics is adopted to examine and acknowledge the politics embedded in children’s everyday spaces and children’s everyday actions. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Constitution of Consumption : Food Labeling and the Politics of Consumerism

   Författare :Carl Yngfalk; Torkild Thanem; Jacob Östberg; Avi Shankar; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; power; Foucault; consumerism; consumption; consumer culture; institutions; markets; dialectical; food labeling; best before; företagsekonomi; Business Administration;

   Sammanfattning : The power dynamics of consumerism is an important aspect of contemporary consumer culture. Within the field of marketing and consumption, consumer culture theory (CCT) tends to understand power in terms of agency, the ability of consumers to emancipate from a market infused by the culture of consumerism. LÄS MER

5. 4. Producing Food, Security, and the Geopolitical Subject

   Författare :Jiayi Zhou; Eva Lövbrand; Malin Mobjörk; Björn-Ola Linnér; Jonna Nyman; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Food security; Russia; United Nations; Security; Discourse; Geo-politics;

   Sammanfattning : This study uses food as a lens through which to empirically and theoretically problematize the concept of security. Food – its supply, provision, and access – is situated at the center of several interconnected crises, from environmental and climatic upheaval to growing geopolitical turbulence and great power competition. LÄS MER

7. 5. Det välnärda barnet : Föreställningar och politik i skolmåltidens historia

   Författare :Eva Gullberg; Bengt Sandin; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; History of School Meals; History of Childhood; Visions on Childhood; Welfare State; Food Politics; Notions on Food and Eating; Public Health; Skolmåltider; Historia; Sverige; 1900-talet; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Sammanfattning : Sweden is nearly unique in providing and publicly funding meals for all schoolchildren. The current debate shows that the policy of providing school meals is universally accepted. LÄS MER