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  • Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan

    Nourishing National Identity

    by Stephanie Assmann ...
    Series series Consumption and Sustainability in Asia
    Food education initiatives exist worldwide, but Japan remains unique with its food education law known as shokuiku. The country’s impressive health metrics — high life expectancies, low obesity, and affordable health care — often lead observers to praise this approach. This book presents a more nuanced analysis. First, it challenges the assumption that food education is wholly a “good thing” by ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan

    Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Stephanie Assmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia and the Environment
    Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic downturn in post-war years. Low birth rates, aging populations, agricultural decline and youth migration to large cities have been compounded by the triple disaster of 11 March 2011, which destroyed farming and fishing communities and left thousands of people homeless. This book identifies these challenges and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    India and its Contradictions

    by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen ...
    When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last three ... Read more

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  • Buddha on Wall Street

    by Vaddhaka Linn ...
    'An original, insightful, and provocative evaluation of our economic situation today. If you wonder about the social implications of Buddhist teachings, this is an essential book.' David Loy, author Money, Sex, War, Karma. 'Lays bare the pernicious consequences of corporate capitalism and draws forth from Buddhism suggestions for creating benign alternatives conducive to true human flourishing.' ... Read more

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  • Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists

    The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima

    by Aya Hirata Kimura ...
    Following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 2011 many concerned citizens—particularly mothers—were unconvinced by the Japanese government’s assurances that the country’s food supply was safe. They took matters into their own hands, collecting their own scientific data that revealed radiation-contaminated food. In Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists Aya Hirata Kimura ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Food & Society

    Principles and Paradoxes

    by Amy E. Guptill, Denise A. Copelton, Betsy Lucal ...
    This popular text, now in a third edition, offers readers a vivid perspective on the cultural and social complexities of food practices and the current food system. Synthesizing insights from the multidisciplinary field of food studies, this book engages readers’ curiosity by highlighting the seeming paradoxes of food: how food is both individual and social, reveals both distinction and conformity ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Hidden Hunger

    Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods

    by Aya Hirata Kimura ...
    For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the "hidden hunger" of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Semantics of Development in Asia

    Exploring ‘Untranslatable’ Ideas Through Japan

    Edited by Jin Sato, Soyeun Kim ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores Japanese involvement in Asian development through selected development ideas and lexemes that are widely regarded in Japan as 'untranslatable' into other languages. Each chapter traces the genealogy of locally nuanced development ideas and lexemes in Japan and the process by which they have spread across Asia and beyond through Japan's development cooperation. The ... Read more

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  • Food in a Just World

    Compassionate Eating in a Time of Climate Change

    by Tracey Harris, Terry Gibbs ...
    Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of food production, distribution, and consumption, where each step of the process is built on some form of exploitation. While highlighting the broken system’s continuities from European colonialism, the authors argue that the seeds of resilience, resistance, and inclusive cultural ... Read more

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  • Eat Local, Taste Global

    How Ethnocultural Food Reaches Our Tables

    by Glen C. Filson, Bamidele Adekunle ...
    Eat Local, Taste Global: How Ethnocultural Food Reaches Our Tables shows how the demand for ethnocultural vegetables on the part of Toronto’s South Asian, Chinese, and Afro-Caribbean Canadians is at odds with the corporate food regime. How does that regime affect the local food movement and ethnic groups’ access to their preferred foods? This book addresses that question and suggests that the ... Read more

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  • Why the Dalai Lama is a Socialist

    Buddhism and the Compassionate Society

    by Terry Gibbs ...
    To the surprise of many, the Dalai Lama recently declared that, 'I am a socialist'. While many Buddhists and socialists would be perplexed at the suggestion that their approaches to life share fundamental principles, important figures in the Buddhist tradition are increasingly framing contemporary social and economic problems in distinctly socialist terms.In this novel and provocative work, Terry ... Read more

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  • Educating for the Anthropocene

    Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence

    by Peter Sutoris ...
    The work of environmental educators and activists in India and South Africa offers new models for schooling and environmental activism.Education has never played as critical a role in determining humanity’s future as it does in the Anthropocene, an era marked by humankind’s unprecedented control over the natural environment. Drawing on a multisited ethnographic project among schools and activist ... Read more

    $28.99 USD