The Unending Hunger (eBook)

Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders

Megan A. Carney (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
272 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95967-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in women’s experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As women grapple with the pervasive conditions of poverty that hinder efforts at getting enough to eat, they find few options for alleviating the various forms of suffering that accompany food insecurity. Examining how constraints on eating and feeding translate to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders and how "food security" comes to dominate national policy in the United States, this book argues for understanding women’s relations to these processes as inherently biopolitical.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. "We Had Nothing to Eat": The Biopolitics of Food Insecurity
2. Caring Through Food: "La Lucha Diaria"
3. Nourishing Neoliberalism? Narratives of "Sufrimiento"
4. Disciplining Caring Subjects: Food Security as a Biopolitical Project
5. Managing Care: Strategies of Resistance and Healing
Conclusion

Epilogue
Appendix A
Appendix B

Notes
References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Schlagworte: American immigration • American Politics • American Studies • Anthropology • biopolitical • central american migrants • crossing the border • Cultural Studies • eating • Family • Feeding • Food • food and hunger • Food insecurity • Healing • Human Condition • immigration and immigrants • Mexican migrants • Migrant Mothers • Migrants • Migrant women • Migration • National policy • Neoliberalism • Political • Poverty • Public Policy • resistance • social services • Suffering • Survival • United States of America • welfare
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95967-1 / 0520959671
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95967-5 / 9780520959675