On Hunger
Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic
Seiten
2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41298-9 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41298-9 (ISBN)
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In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in US history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technology—a weapon, a scientific method, and a policy instrument. During the nineteenth century, state agents and private citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing using hunger and food deprivation. In the twentieth century, officials enacted policies and rules that made incarcerated people, welfare recipients, and beneficiaries of foreign food aid hungry by design, in order to modify their behavior. With the advent of ultraprocessed foods, food manufacturers designed products to stimulate cravings and consumption at the expense of public health. Taking us inside the labs of researchers devoted to understanding hunger as a biological and social phenomenon, On Hunger examines the continuing struggle to produce, suppress, or control hunger in America.
In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in US history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technology—a weapon, a scientific method, and a policy instrument. During the nineteenth century, state agents and private citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing using hunger and food deprivation. In the twentieth century, officials enacted policies and rules that made incarcerated people, welfare recipients, and beneficiaries of foreign food aid hungry by design, in order to modify their behavior. With the advent of ultraprocessed foods, food manufacturers designed products to stimulate cravings and consumption at the expense of public health. Taking us inside the labs of researchers devoted to understanding hunger as a biological and social phenomenon, On Hunger examines the continuing struggle to produce, suppress, or control hunger in America.
Dana Simmons is an historian of science and technology at the University of California, Riverside, and author of Vital Minimum: Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Starving Process
2. Punishment and Reward
3. Fight—Don’t Starve
4. Food Aid and the Starved Personality
5. Craving and Control
6. Weapon of White Supremacy
7. Carceral Hunger
8. Ozempic
Conclusion: They Were Hungry
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.04.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | California Studies in Food and Culture ; 85 |
| Zusatzinfo | 13 b-w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-520-41298-2 / 0520412982 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-41298-9 / 9780520412989 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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