Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explore...

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1. Verfasser:	Frens-String, Joshua 1985- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Berkeley University of California Press 2021
Schlagworte:	Ernährungssicherung Ernährungspolitik Geschichte Chile Electronic books
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Zusammenfassung:	Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In so doing, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside Cover -- Hungry for Revolution -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Building a Revolutionary Appetite -- PART ONE A HUNGRY NATION -- 1 Worlds of Abundance, Worlds of Scarcity -- 2 Red Consumers -- PART TWO CONTAINING HUNGER -- 3 Controlling for Nutrition -- 4 Cultivating Consumption -- PART THREE RECIPES FOR CHANGE -- 5 When Revolution Tasted Like Empanadas and Red Wine -- 6 A Battle for the Chilean Stomach -- 7 Barren Plots and Empty Pots -- Epilogue: Counterrevolution at the Market -- Key Acronyms and Terms in Chilean Food History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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ISBN:	9780520974753
DOI:	10.1525/9780520974753