The Political Relevance of Food Media and Journalism

Beyond Reviews and Recipes
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-25560-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Journalism

Interrogating the intersections of food, journalism, and politics, this book offers a critical examination of food media and journalism, and its political potential against the backdrop of contemporary social challenges.

Contributors analyze current and historic examples such as #BlackLivesMatter, COVID-19, climate change, Brexit, food sovereignty, and identity politics, highlighting how food media and journalism reach beyond the commercial imperatives of lifestyle journalism to negotiate nationalism, globalization, and social inequalities. The volume challenges the idea that food media/journalism are trivial and apolitical by drawing attention to the complex ways that storytelling about food has engaged political discourses in the past, and the innovative ways it is doing so today.

Bringing together international scholars from a variety of disciplines, the book will be of great interest to scholars and students of journalism, communication, media studies, food studies, sociology, and anthropology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fakazis, Elizabeth

Fürsich, Elfriede

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: From the Racist Sandwich to Civil Eats: How Food Journalism Is Engaging with Politics; Part I: Engaging with Systems of Injustice and Disparity; 1. Influencer Activism: Visibility, Strategy, and #BlackLivesMatter Discourse on Food Instagram; 2. Super Bowl Food Politics: On the Menu, on the Screen, and on the Field; 3. Agribusiness, Environmental Conflict, and Food in Travel Journalism: Image Work for the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick; 4. Who Speaks and Are We Listening? Food Sovereign Voices in a Changing Climate; Part II: Raising Questions of Legitimacy, Power, and Good Citizenship; 5. From Bad Boys to Heroes: Culinary Philanthropy and Good Citizenship in the Age of COVID-19; 6. Cooking in the Time of Corona: The Politicized Domesticity of Food Journalism in The New York Times; 7. Paleo and Pain Free: Reporting on Scandals of Food Celebrities; Part III: Negotiating Regional, National, and Global Identities; 8. Of Clay Stoves and Cooking Pots: “Village Food” Videos and Gastro-Politics in Contemporary India; 9. How the Bendy Banana Became a Symbol of Anti-EU Sentiment: British Media, Political Mythology, and Populism; 10. Heritage, Belonging, and Promotion: Food Journalism Reconsidered; Part IV: Recovering History and (Re)producing Memory; 11. Patriotic Hens, Tomato Turbans, and Mock Fish: The Daily Mail Food Bureau and National Identity during the First World War; 12. Influencer before the Internet: The Extraordinary Career of Chef, Editor, and Food Entrepreneur Alma Lach; 13. Chef’s Table and a Collective Past: Netflix, Food Media, and Cultural Memories; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Fakazis is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Design & Communication at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, USA.

Elfriede Fürsich is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.