{"product_id":"shifting-food-facts-alissa-overend-9780367562380","title":"Shifting Food Facts: Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a much-needed reframing of food discourse by presenting alternative ways of thinking about the changing politics of food, eating, and nutrition. It examines critical epistemological questions of \u003ci\u003ehow \u003c\/i\u003efood knowledge comes to be shaped and \u003ci\u003ewhy \u003c\/i\u003ewe see pendulum swings when it comes to the question of what to eat.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs food facts peak and peril in the face of conflicting dietary advice and nutritional evidence, this book situates shifting food truths through a critical analysis of how healthy eating is framed and contested, particularly amid fluctuating truth claims of a \"post-truth\" culture. It explores what a post-truth epistemological framework can offer critical food and health studies, considers the type of questions this may enable, and looks at what can be gained by relinquishing rigid empirical pursuits of singular dietary truths. In focusing too intently on the separation between food fact and food fiction, the book argues that politically dangerous and epistemically narrow ideas of one way to eat \"healthy\" or \"right\" are perpetuated. Drawing on a range of archival materials related to food and health and interviews with registered dietitians, this book offers various examples of shifting food truths, from macro-historical genealogies to contemporary case studies of dairy, wheat, and meat.　\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProviding a rich and innovative analysis, this book offers news ways to think about, and act upon, our increasingly complex food landscapes. It does so by loosening our empirical Western reliance on singular food facts in favour of an articulation of contextual food truths that situate the problems of health as problems of living, not as individualistic problems of eating. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners working in food studies, food politics, sociology, environmental geography, health, nutrition, and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alissa Overend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367562383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367562380\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d","brand":"Alissa Overend","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44202040000767,"sku":"9780367562380","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b6c7a51a-0c2b-40e0-b0d4-31f0eafde372.jpg?v=1691492878","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shifting-food-facts-alissa-overend-9780367562380","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}