Hungry for Revolution

The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-34337-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 414 g

Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's 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 Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frens-String, Joshua

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Joshua Frens-String is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and an associate of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS).