Tuesday, July 27, 2021

"Hungry for Revolution"

New from the University of California Press: Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile by Joshua Frens-String.

About the book, from the publisher:
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.
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--Marshal Zeringue