Leslie,
Michael Pollan's new book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, is US-focused but
thoughtful and wide-ranging. And he's right there for you to
invite. There are small bits (4-6 little pages) in Ryan Durning's
Stuff, The Secret Life of Everyday Things, about food. That too is
anchored in
leslie,
there is also another new book that might be relevant to your needs:
The Way We Eat : Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer and Jim
Mason.
cheers, dj
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Dale Jamieson
Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy
Affiliated Professor of Law
New York
Hi Leslie,
Darwins Nightmare is a very good documentary about Nile perch and the
connections between invasive species and various other global
connections (underdevelopment, arms trade, HIV-AIDS in Africa).
It was nominated for the best documentary Oscar last year, and might have won if
Title: Re: Food issues
Leslie et al,
Back when I was an undergrad, I was very impressed by this report
from Article 19 (UK human rights organization), on famine and
censorship - overview, historical, comparative, picking up from
Amartya Sen's work. It's a little old (1990, heavens, the dark
And an abbreviated version of Tucker's work is found in
Princen, et al., Confronting Consumption, 2002, MIT Press.
MM
At 11:01 AM 5/9/2006, Kai N. Lee wrote:
Another useful source, a history
of American imperialism, with a long
discussion of sugar, bananas, and coffee, is
Tucker, Richard P.
Hi Leslie,
In Europe this movie just came out: "We Feed the world"
http://www.we-feed-the-world.at/en/index.htm
I haven't seen it yet, but it seems to give a good overview over the
current situation in GMO, food security and food safety.
I would also recommend browsing the publications of
To the many excellent suggestions here, I will add
By way of shameless self-promotion, many people have found my book, The Death
of Ramon Gonzalez: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma to be very useful in such
classes. It is now available in a 2005 updated version from the University of
Texas
In addition to the many great sources
mentioned already, Ill recommend a few sources on the GMO debate that I
have used in undergraduate courses:
Bill Lambrecht, Dinner at the New
Gene Cafe: How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and
the Global Politics of Food
Leslie,
My colleague Heather Williams teaches a course on the global politics of
food and agriculture. Her syllabus, and those of about 50 other
environmental courses at the Claremont Colleges, can be downloaded at:
http://www.environcenter.hmc.edu/courses.html.
Paul
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From: Tom Princen,
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To: ESS
Re: panel proposal for Chicago meeting, FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 3,
2007
This is to invite papers for a panel entitled
Theorizing Global Environmental Politics.
Approaches to this topic could include:
i. an attempt to construct a
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