Political Language of Food

This edited collection explores how food language is political. The contributors examine the production of food language in conjunction with historical social movements, food labeling practices, illustrations of social class, as well as corporate and bureaucratic language.

Samuel Boerboom is assistant professor of media studies in the Department of Communication and Theatre at Montana State University Billings.

Introduction: How does food language function politically? Samuel Boerboom Chapter 1Tracing the "Back to the Land" Trope: Self-Sufficiency, Counterculture, and Community Jessica M. Prody Chapter 2 Végétariens Radicaux: John Oswald and the Trope of Sympathy in Revolutionary Paris Justin Killian Chapter 3 The Revolution Will Not Be (Food) Reviewed: Politics of Agitation and Control of Occupy Kitchen Amy Pason Chapter 4 Haute Colonialism: Exocitizing Povery in Bizarre Foods America Casey Ryan Kelly Chapter 5 Pungent Yet Problematic: The Class-Based Framing of Ramps in the New York Times and the Charleston Gazette Melissa Boehm Chapter 6Constructing Taste and Waste as Habitus: Food and Matters of Access and In/Security Leda Cooks Chapter 7Tying the Knot: How Industry and Advocacy Organizations Market Language as Humane Joseph L. Abisaid Chapter 8Corn Allergy: Public Policy, Private Devastation Kathy Brady Chapter 9 Family Farms with Happy Cows: A Narrative Analysis of Horizon Organic Dairy Packaging Labels Jennifer L. Adams Chapter 10Chipotle Mexican Grill's Meatwashing Propaganda: Corporate-Speak Hiding Suffering of "Commodity" Animals Ellen W. Gorsevski Chapter 11Corporate Colonization in the Market: Discursive Closures and the Greenwashing of Food Discourse Megan A. Koch and Cristin A. Compton Chapter 12Mistaken Consensus and the Body-as-Machine Analogy Samuel Boerboom