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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Food studies"”.
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Tea, gammon, and coke : the eucharistic imaginary of T.S. Eliot and Denise Levertov.
In this project, I read for food and drink imagery across T. S. Eliot and Denise Levertov's bodies of work, and by collecting each cup of tea, meal of bloody flesh, mouthful of Cherries Jubilee, and bite of honeycomb, I illustrate the eucharistic imaginary of these poets. This project exists at the …
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FOOD AND PERFORMANCE IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
… creates a critical situation; performance studies offers significant ways to address the increasing problems of incarceration. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the intersection of academic literature connecting penal studies, food studies, and performance studies. I argue that …
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The Making Of The Corporate Agri-Food System In Egypt
… and that limit heightened commodification of food in Egypt. Multi-method research in Egypt indicated that while the growth of food that is made into a commodity form by corporations is not substantial in Egypt, it has contributed to the reconstitution of smallholder agriculture, growing class …
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Aportaciones de la teledetección en el desarrollo de un sistema metodológico para la evaluación de los efectos de cambio climático sobre la producción de las explotaciones agrarias
… (Crop Growth Monitoring System - WOrld FOod STudies) y diversos índices de vegetación obtenidos a partir de imágenes de teledetección. La estimación anticipada del rendimiento de los cultivos es de gran ayuda a las Administraciones Públicas para mejorar las políticas agrarias de manera …
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Committing to the Discomfort of Care and Curiosity: Investigations of Cows' Welfare, Lives, and Relationships
… of cows whose lives are taken in the name of food. I unpack grass-fed beef farmers' understandings and practices of cow welfare and use animal geographies, biopolitics, and critical food studies to unearth the ethical complexities of farmer-cow relations, which complicate and strengthen cow …
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An investigation of radiolytic damage to biomolecules in foodstuffs
… system for detecting the irradiation status of foodstuffs is essential for the establishment of legislative control and consumer choice. For foodstuffs consisting mainly of water, treatment with ionising radiation initially generates highly reactive free radical species (hydroxyl radical (‘OH), …
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Taming the tiger: the political ecology of prawn production in Tanzania
… simply environmental regulations) structure agro-food systems and produce unequal outcomes that are often highly contested from the perspectives of competing resource users. Through a social-ecological lens, this dissertation also contributes to the agri-food studies literature by showing how …
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Art in the mouth: a critical evaluation of the chemical senses in contemporary art
… within the fields of life sciences, cognitive studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, food studies and flavour and fragrance chemistry. The contributions of this research are: assertions derived from data and expert opinions from within these fields; curated events which provide examples …
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Eating otherwise : food and being in twentieth-century literature
Eating Otherwise: Food and Being in Twentieth-Century Literature thinks the ‘you are what you eat’ adage otherwise, exploring the entanglement of the ontological with the alimentary in twentieth-century literature. Since its inception more than thirty years ago, the booming field of literary food …
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Exploring the Metacognitive Profile and Role of Memory in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa
… and the families’ relationship with food. Studies indicate that negative early experiences are associated with disordered eating (e.g., Sweetingham & Waller, 2008). This was the first qualitative study of metacognitive factors and role of memory, whereby the content, use, and impact …
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Leveraging Capacity: Technical Solutions to Hunger in the Era of Neoliberalism
… about the solution to hunger known as "global food security." Discussions about food security among food studies scholars highlight either the failures of global public health advocates to regulate the food and beverage industry or they view food security, like earlier campaigns against global …
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Food and Religion in the English and Italian Reformations, c. 1560 - c. 1640
This thesis explores the relationship between food and religion in the European Reformations, through the comparative case studies of Protestant England and Catholic Italy, c. 1560 - c. 1640. It seeks to answer two broad interrelated questions: how did Protestants and Catholics understand food and …
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Validation, Calibration, and Uncertainty Quantification of the Wofost Crop Simulation Model
… of agricultural yield data via the WOFOST (WOrld FOod STudies) [20] crop simulation model. Through our validation, calibration, and uncertainty quantification steps, we seek to answer the following question: How can we reliably generate yield data for different regions of the world using …
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Meanings and Markets: Reading Food Commodities in Postwar America
… investigates the literary construction of food commodities in the United States after World War II. Because of the war effort's ramping up of industry and technology, the exchange of new and rationalized food commodities traded in the marketplace becomes the dominant mode of food …
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Food and the Social Body in US Performance Art, 1962–1980
<p>Food is a force of connection, a vector that passes through the borders of the body and links our biological organism with the social and political world. This complex, life-sustaining substance began to appear in US art in the early 1960s not just as an image, but as a literal material. Artists …
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Cocinando lo auténtico: La comida como patrimonio cultural en la producción discursiva puertorriqueña, siglos XIX-XXI
… is to study the discursive representation of food as a critical tool for understanding the cultural constructions that emerge from the 19th century to the present in different Puerto Rican publications. The primary texts analyzed are cookbooks and agriculture manuals, food advertisements in …
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Utilizing geographic information systems to examine the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics in food oasis and food desert in Wayne County, MI
<p>In the last few decades, the concept of a <em>food desert</em> has captured the attention of the public and academia. Research has referred to <em>food desert</em> as an area with lack of access to adequate healthy food, especially for those without a vehicle or who live more than ¼ mile walking …
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DNA Barcoding of Ayurvedic Herbal Supplements used for the Purported Treatment of COVID-19
<p>The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic was associated with an increased global use of traditional medicines, including Ayurvedic herbal supplements. Because of the growing demand and processed nature of these products, there is an increased risk of adulteration. In order to assess whether the …
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Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature
Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature is a study of the dynamics of pleasure in literary scenes of food, eating, and hungering in American poetry and novels from the early 20th century to the present. From infamous poetic instances of plums and memorialized moveable feasts in the early …
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Edible Cultures: The Politics and Ethics of Recuperating Food Waste
… who will have enough to eat? This research studies the people and policies involved in an emergent citywide system of food waste recuperation in the E.U.’s capital of Brussels. It incorporates those who recirculate food—such as volunteers at the city’s largest food bank; workers at a …
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