Eating NAFTA (eBook)

Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico

Alyshia Gálvez (Autor)

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2018
288 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96544-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Mexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same time that Mexicans are eating fewer tortillas and more processed food. Today Mexico is experiencing an epidemic of diet-related chronic illness. The precipitous rise of obesity and diabetes—attributed to changes in the Mexican diet—has resulted in a public health emergency.
 
In her gripping new book, Alyshia Gálvez exposes how changes in policy following NAFTA have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico—sustenance. Mexicans are faced with a food system that favors food security over subsistence agriculture, development over sustainability, market participation over social welfare, and ideologies of self-care over public health. Trade agreements negotiated to improve lives have resulted in unintended consequences for people’s everyday lives.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Preface

1. Introduction
2. People of the Corn
3. Laying the Groundwork for NAFTA
4. NAFTA: Free Trade in the Body
5. Deflecting the Blame: Poverty and Personal Responsibility
6. Diabetes: The Disease of the Migrant?
7. Nostalgia, Prestige, and a Party Every Day
8. Conclusion: Connecting the Dots, and Bright Spots

Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.9.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • chronic illness • cooking • Development • Diabetes • diet • dietary issues • foodie • food lover • food security • Food System • food writing • Globalization • health and wellness • healthy food • Mexican cuisine • Mexican food • Mexican government • Mexico • NAFTA • Nutrition • Obesity • Policy Issues • processed food • Public Health • social issues • Social Welfare • sustainability • Sustainable food
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96544-2 / 0520965442
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96544-7 / 9780520965447