POLS 196 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Meiji Period

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 196
• Professor: Bradley Bauerly

Document Summary

Food contains a unique political connection due to security and economic concerns: as well as identity, integration and nation building issues. Food connects ideas of the nation with survival. Nations are created and sustained through nationalism, collective identity: nations continue to exist because people continue to engage and use it. Food identity development cases: meiji japan, bengali india under british rule, nazi germany, mussolini"s italy, zionism in israel, australia and kangaroos. Consumption of specific food ties people to national territory and identity: seen as corrective to ecological damage caused by european farming. Part of us national food identity is the melting pot idea and the prevalence of regional diets: characteristics of us food identity: Notion of the american farmer as a commodity idea (1) builds up rugged individualism.