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El hambre de los otros.: Ciencia y políticas alimentarias en Latinoamérica, siglos XX y XXI

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  • Food problems—as well as the meanings of food and the bodies that consume it—are not a reality given in advance, but the historical result of processes that involve local cultural traditions, scientific and epistemic transformations, technological developments, new forms of government over the social and the corporeal, as well as (increasingly global) industrial systems of food production, distribution, and advertising. These processes in turn include a wide range of actors and institutions—both at the local and international levels—with different theoretical perspectives, political agendas, and economic interests. At the crossroads of studies on science, technology, medicine, and social studies of food, The hunger of others is an effort to critically analyze the relationships between science, the State, and public policies in the processes of conceiving and managing health and nutrition problems in Latin America over the last century.

    This book brings together academics from the Americas and Europe who analyze the social construction of expert knowledge on nutrition in local contexts in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, and their articulations with international scientific networks and state organizations—bilateral or multilateral—in order to make food a readable and manageable topic. The implementation of the resulting public policies through specific programs and practices is also explored, as well as their contingencies and real scope, the power relations involved in them (crossed by gender, race, and class issues), and the agency of the people object of intervention. Altogether, The hunger of others is an invitation to consider the diversity of cultural, natural, political, economic, and technological aspects that make up our food worlds at specific times and places, with forms of management and improvement that require comprehensive approaches and the construction of shared knowledge and practices among the actors involved.

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