Contribution to Book
This Compost! India and the History of Global Organic Farming.
Anthropocene Ecologies of Food: Notes from the Global South
(2022)
Abstract
Anthropocene Ecologies of Food provides a detailed exploration of cross-cultural aspects of food production, culinary practices, and their ecological underpinning in culture. The authors draw connections between humans and the entire process of global food production, focusing on the broad implications these processes have within the geographical and cultural context of India. Each chapter analyzes and critiques existing agricultural/food practices, and representations of aspects of food through various media (such as film, literature, and new media) as they relate to global issues generally and Indian contexts specifically, correcting the omission of analyses focused on the Global South in virtually all of the work that has been done on "Anthropocene ecologies of food." This unique volume employs an ecocritical framework that connects food with the land, in physical and virtual communities, and the book as a whole interrogates the meanings and implications of the Anthropocene itself.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2022
Editor
Simon C. Estok, Susan Deborah Selvaraj and Rayson Alex
Publisher
Routledge
Citation Information
“This Compost! India and the History of Global Organic Farming.” In Simon C. Estok, Susan Deborah Selvaraj and Rayson Alex, eds., Anthropocene Ecologies of Food: Notes from the Global South (Routledge, 2022).