Description: "Precarious Eating asks how recentering global South representations of food might shift understandings of environmental precarity. Taking up a diverse range of novels, films, scholar/activist writings, intellectual histories, and cookbooks, Ben Jamieson Stanley connects the ethics of eating to histories of empire and apartheid, uneven globalization, gender and sexuality, and global South experiences of climate change"--
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"Precarious Eating is a richly theorized, beautifully written, and politically urgent book. As Ben Jamieson Stanley brilliantly demonstrates, contemporary South African and Indian fiction speaks to food justice and climate change by representing famine and agricultural labor, cuisine and consumption, and water scarcity and purity politics. This eloquent and timely study advances the vital role of food studies within the environmental humanities."--Catherine Keyser, author of Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions
"Precarious Eating stages a thought-provoking conversation across the fields of food studies, postcolonial thought, and ecocriticism centered on the global South. Scholars of topics as varied as hunger and famine, food commodities, the environmentalism of the poor, and the tangled politics of ethical eating will find much to admire in this book."--Parama Roy, author of Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial
"This book invites readers to think critically about environmental culture and activism. Highly recommended."--CHOICE
"Precarious Eating significantly broadens conversations in food studies and the environmental humanities."--ISLE
"The book is extremely informative about recent grassroots movements, especially in India and South Africa."--H-Net Reviews
"Precarious Eating emphasizes the importance of consumption fiction as a revelatory subgenre of the global environmental novel worth further investigation. Beyond its contribution to the literary analysis of climate fiction, this work would be of particular interest to graduate students and scholars in the field of environmental humanities." --Agriculture and Human Values