On Hunger (eBook)

Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic

Dana Simmons (Autor)

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2025
234 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41299-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in US history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technologya 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 aidhungry by design, in orderto 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.

Inhalt

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
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2025
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-520-41299-0 / 0520412990
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-41299-6 / 9780520412996