The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure - Brossura

Andrews, Geoff

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ISBN 10: 0745327443 ISBN 13: 9780745327440

Casa editrice: Pluto Press, 2008

Riassunto

The Slow Food movement was set up in Italy as a response to the dominance of fast food chains, supermarkets and large-scale agribusiness. It seeks to defend what it calls 'the universal right to pleasure' and promotes an alternative approach to food production and consumption based on the promotion of 'good, clean and fair' local products.

This is the first in-depth study of the fascinating politics of Slow Food, which in twenty years has grown into an international organisation with more than 80,000 members in over 100 countries. With its roots in the 1960s and 1970s counter-culture, Slow Food's distinctive politics lie in the unity between gastronomic pleasure and environmental responsibility. The movement crosses the left-right divide to embrace both the conservative desire to preserve traditional rural communities and an alternative 'virtuous' idea of globalisation.

Geoff Andrews shows that the alternative future embodied in Slow Food extends to all aspects of modern life. The Slow Food Story presents an extensive new critique of fast-moving, work-obsessed contemporary capitalist culture.

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Recensione:

The globalisation of capitalism has left democracy in its wake. Our lives are now beyond our control. Nowhere is this more apparent than in what and how we eat. Geoff Andrews shows us that the concept of Slow Food is not just a practical necessity for survival but offers a glimpse of a transformative change for the better in the way we live our lives. --Neal Lawson, Chair of the political pressure group Compass

The first in-depth study of the politics of the Slow Food movement. --Scott Russon, The Independent

L'autore:

Geoff Andrews is a writer and academic. His recent writing has been on modern Italy and he is the author of Not a Normal Country: Italy after Berlusconi (Pluto Press, 2005). He has also written on British politics and the history of social and political movements and his previous books include Endgames and New Times: The Final Years of British Communism (2004). In addition to his academic work, he also writes for a range of newspapers and journals, including the Financial Times, Open Democracy, and Soundings, of which he is an associate editor. He is currently Staff Tutor in Politics at the Open University. For further news of his recent writing go to www.geoffandrews.net

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• Editore: Pluto Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0745327443
• ISBN 13: 9780745327440
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 216