{"product_id":"food-education-and-rural-resilience-stephanie-assmann-9789462985247","title":"Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan: Nourishing National Identity","description":"Food education initiatives exist worldwide, but Japan remains unique with its food education law known as \u003ccite\u003eshokuiku\u003c\/cite\u003e. 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 exposing underlying power mechanisms. Through food diagrams, food fairs, and school lunch programs, government ministries promote both nationalism and traditional gender roles. Second, it explores how food education operates in Japan's rural regions, where educators champion resilience and food self-sufficiency to alleviate depopulation and economic decline. This emphasis on local food persisted even in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Using Foucault's concept of governmentality, historical contextualization, and extensive fieldwork in rural Japan, this study reveals the complex political agenda driving food education in a non-Western society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephanie Assmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9462985243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789462985247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amsterdam University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Stephanie Assmann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46927968862463,"sku":"9789462985247","price":126.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e3601443-34da-4672-8a2a-b460f326b148.jpg?v=1749373530","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/food-education-and-rural-resilience-stephanie-assmann-9789462985247","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}