The ecopolitics of consumption : the food trade / edited by H. Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim, Madhudaya Sinha.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1: Introduction.--Chapter 2: Oodles of Noodles: Nestlé India and the Maggi Consumer Nightmare / Madhu SinhaChapter.-- 3: Spectacles of Revulsion: The Challenges of Bush-Tucker as Contemporary Cuisine / Nicole Anae.--Chapter 4: “Pets or Food?”: Unstable Object Lessons in Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle / Karyn Pilgrim.--Chapter 5: Agvocates for Industry: Citizen-Farmers, Social Media, and the Gendered Production of Food / Cori Brewster.--Chapter 6: The Politics of Food Behind Bars /Salvador Jimenez Murgia.--Chapter 7: Live Feeds: Surveillance and the Food-Industrial Complex / Daniel Grinberg.-- Chapter 8: What Grows in Silicon Valley? The Emerging Ideology of Food Technology /Christopher Miles & Nancy Smith.--Chapter 9: Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Cuba’s Quest for Food Security in the Twenty-First Century / Melanie Zeigler and Walt Vanderbush.--Chapter 10: The Political Economy of Food Production: The Low-Input Alternative to the Capital System’s High-Input Structural Dynamics / Robert Drury King.-- Chapter 11: He Who Feeds You Will Also Impose His Will on You”: Food Sovereignty Versus the Free Market / H. Louise Davis.

This collection adds to the field of ecocritical theory by merging multidisciplinary approaches to food studies with the established ecocritical discourse of culture and the environment. With themes of confinement and control in the global industrial food systems, this book explores the role of consumption and commodification in contemporary life.