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"Parasecoli coins and explains the concept of "gastronativism" to help us better understand the ways food has become a powerful ideological tool in political debates, protests, and negotiations. The overarching goal is to demonstrate what gastronativism is, along with the social and political work gastronativism does by means of a wide array of examples from all over the world, with an emphasis on developments during the last decade. Parasecoli describes how globalization and neoliberalism together drive the rise of gastronativism. He also points out that debates around food are rarely about food. The central role of food in everyday life, and its role in determining collective identities, help link it to a much deeper and more complex socio-economic dynamics. How is food used for political purposes? Food offers a unique perspective, because it connects very personal experiences to global systems. Because it is so intimate and emotionally powerful, food is the perfect prism through which to view nativism. Especially after the 2008 financial crisis, food has been used by those who feel they have been excluded or victimized by neoliberal globalization to express fears and resentment generated by changes wrought by globalization. As a reaction, there is among some a desire to go back to one's own food and culinary roots to anchor their identity. Hence gastronativism. This book poses questions about how neoliberal policies set the stage for a range of food movements to embrace local ingredients and encourage heritage recipes. This phenomenon can express itself in local and regional foods, agro-biodiversity, and artisanal know-how. It can support movements for equality, justice, and resistance against transnational corporations. It can also support groups that give local communities choices about what they produce, what they import, and what they consume. Other forms of gastronativism, however, are expressions of nationalist, supremacist, and xenophobic projects that want to maintain or increase inequalities, rendering immigrants, ethnic minorities, and underprivileged people as scapegoats to make up for fears of loss of social prestige, status, and economic well-being. Parasecoli explores both the exclusionary and the non-exclusionary forms of this global trend"--

Food industry and trade --- Food --- Identity politics. --- Nativism. --- Food in popular culture. --- Locavores. --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects.

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"Throughout history, the religious imagination has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayed-or, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Religious belief and mandate affect how our bodies are used in ritual practice, as well as how we use them to identify and marginalize threatening religious Others. This book examines how horror culture treats religious bodies that have stepped (or been pushed) out of their 'proper' place. Unlike most books on religion and horror, This book explores the dark spaces where sex, sexual representation, and the sexual body come together with religious belief and scary stories. Because these intersections of sex, horror, and the religious imagination force us to question the nature of consensus reality, supernatural horror, especially as it concerns the body, often shows us the religious imagination at work in real time. It is important to note that the discussion in this book is not limited either to horror cinema or to popular fiction, but considers a wide range of material, including literary horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, participative culture, and aspects of real-world religious fear. It is less concerned with horror as a genre (which is mainly a function of marketing) and more with the horror mode, a way of storytelling that finds expression across a number of genres, a variety of media, and even blurs the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. This expanded focus not only deepens the pool of potential examples, but invites a much broader readership in for a swim"--

Horror. --- Human body --- Popular culture --- Religious aspects. --- Alien invasion. --- Ambiguity. --- Anthropology. --- Anti-Catholic nativism. --- Anti-Pagan activism. --- B movies. --- Censorship. --- Clive Barker. --- Clovis Trouille. --- Cosmic horror. --- Cosmic indifference. --- Cthulhu Mythos. --- Devil. --- Dracula. --- Edward Lee. --- Enigma. --- Evolutionary psychology. --- Exploitation. --- Fear. --- Graphic novels. --- H. P. Lovecraft. --- Horror genre. --- Horror mode. --- Human sacrifice. --- Interpretive drift. --- King Kong. --- Legion of Decency. --- Lustmord. --- Margaret Brundage. --- Maria Monk. --- Marquis de Sade. --- Matthew Lewis. --- Monstering. --- Monstrous body. --- Morality. --- Motion Picture Association of America. --- Motion Picture Production Code. --- Nudity. --- Numinous. --- Nun fetish. --- Nunsploitation. --- Pulp fiction. --- Queer horror. --- Realization. --- Religion. --- Religious Imagination. --- Religious imagination. --- Religious questions. --- Riddle. --- Ritual rarity. --- Roger Corman. --- Rudolf Otto. --- Sadeian horror. --- Sex. --- Sexual bodies. --- Sexualized advertising. --- Sigmund Freud. --- Skepticism. --- Spatter horror. --- Stephen King. --- Tanya Luhrmann. --- The Exorcist. --- The Wicker Man. --- The Witch. --- Thomas Rowlandson. --- Weird Tales. --- Witchcraft. --- Wrath James White. --- Sex --- Horror --- Religious aspects