Lecture 5: The Politics of Food Flashcards
What is intersectionality?
The ways in which people experience discrimination, as a consequence of overlapping dimensions of identity.
When or why may the 12 tips to be healthy be questionable?
When considering socioeconomic status and when the health problems they have arise from issues that are out of their control.
What is neoliberalism?
Political philosophy where an individual is a good citizen if they do everything possible to help support the economy
What is healthiest
Being a good citizen is dependent on you taking full responsibility for your health
What are the downstream determinants of health
Access to provision of hospitals, doctors clinics, pharmaceuticals, medicines, surgeries and treatments. Things that happens once you are already ill or injured
What is the social determinant of health approach to downstream determinants of health?
Instead of focusing on what we can do once they are ill, we should focus on the upstream determinants of health. Keep people from being ill.
What determinant of health does healthism focus on?
Downstream in that it encourages an individual ideology and individual responsibility towards health
What could be done with 30% of tossed food?
redirected to feed people
What has been taken up as the gold standard of good mothering?
the organic child
what does mothers making choices but not under circumstances of their own making mean?
mothers are making choices based on what they think is best for their children based on the idea that children are pure as organic food being the way to go. these pressures are not their making, but they still go through them.
what does food security mean?
when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life. includes both physical and economic access to food that meets dietary needs and preferences
what is the problem of why lower income parts of towns have less grocery stores and where they do, they are very spread out?
a lack of attention by mostly municipal politicians
what does municipal politicians need to recognize?
the positive correlation between affordable and accessible food and population health
What responsibility is disproportionately given to women?
Feeding the family.
What is meant by “organic child”?
Idealized notion of al pure child that is kept safe from the harmful impurities of an industrialized food system.
What is almost mandatory when middle-class women are shopping for their children’s food and feeding them?
A negotiation with the “organic child” ideal
Who do I (Alessandra) love so so much?
Akshat <3
What is childhood idealized as?
the natural starting point within narratives of individual development and social progress
an ethical food discourse relies on a ‘win-win’ narrative that links what?
personal well-being to social and environmental improvement.
while research on organic foods is constantly changing, what is one thing that stays constant?
women are its main supporters.
What does the organic child have to do with neoliberalism?
If a mother is trying to feed their child only organic foods, the mother is both practically and emotionally negotiating neoliberal expectations about childhood and maternal social and environmental responsibility.
What are the four themes related to mothers following of the organic child?
- Protecting purity
- Feeding the future
- Gendered labour/Emotional labour
- Access and inequality
what does the organic child ideal invite mothers to do?
consume in ways that will not only nourish healthy and ethical consumers of the future, but also improve the ecological and social context in which they live.
Parents following the organic child ideal need to have extensive what?
amount of time, energy and resources. you need to search for organic foods.
the responsibility of feeding the organic child is not only gendered labour, but also creates work for women on an ______ level
emotional
True or false: e observe how women actively balance competing emotions: they must manage feelings of frustration and anxiety about their child’s well-being, as well as the fear of evaluations by others should they be perceived as ‘crazy’ or ‘obsessed’
True
buying organic is harder for low-income class why?
not enough access. they may not live close enough, or may not have enough income to purchase organics at a higher price.
In a focus group, what does Tammy say about the organic child ideal?
she agrees with parts, however, organic child is like a status symbol. she said a lot of people cannot afford to feed their children like that so she tries not to wear it like a badge of honour.
make the linkage of neoliberalism, healthism, food systems and their politics and the organic child ideal
In a neoliberal context where mothers are positioned as individually responsible for ensuring their child’s optimal development, the idealized figure of the organic child is a product of mothering practices, ‘organic/local/natural’ food markets and a discourse of ethical consumption. ++++ way more
How do we treat the organic child if its not as a static ideology?
as an idealized figure that involves multiple ideological processes where power inequalities are obscured or naturalized.
