Hungry for Revolution (eBook)

The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile

Joshua Frens-String (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
322 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97475-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chiles Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin Americas most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In so doing, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chiles most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the states efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Building a Revolutionary Appetite

Part One: A Hungry Nation
1 • Worlds of Abundance, Worlds of Scarcity
2 • Red Consumers

Part Two: Containing Hunger
3 • Controlling for Nutrition
4 • Cultivating Consumption

Part Three: Recipes for Change
5 • When Revolution Tasted Like Empanadas and Red Wine
6 • A Battle for the Chilean Stomach
7 • Barren Plots and Empty Pots

Epilogue: Counterrevolution at the Market

Key Acronyms and Terms in Chilean Food History
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.6.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97475-1 / 0520974751
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97475-3 / 9780520974753