Sökning: "politics of food"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden politics of food.
1. The Constitution of Consumption : Food Labeling and the Politics of Consumerism
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
2. On the politics of Responsibilization : diverting and diffusing responsibilities at the intersection of food and the climate crisis
Sammanfattning : Transformative ways of addressing the climate and socio-ecological crisis remain scarce despite a flurry of attempts to organize for ‘sustainability’. Organization and management research has shown how climate responses are often viewed with scepticism and how powerful actors contribute to climate inaction and the maintenance of business as usual of high-emitting sectors. LÄS MER
3. Food for Naught : The politics of food in agricultural modernization for African smallholder food security
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
4. Children's lived rights : The everyday politics of asylum-seeking children
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
5. Det välnärda barnet : Föreställningar och politik i skolmåltidens historia
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
