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This book provides a comprehensive overview of ‘societal deception’ - how and why people are deceived and led to believe fake news. Coherently blending critical political economy and sociology, the author provocatively examines how corporations, political parties, the media, think tanks and assorted 'influencers' seek to manipulate public opinion to achieve their goals. This book spans an array of contemporary topics and issues not normally tackled by a single writer – the media, genetic engineering, fast food, environmental pollution, climate change, economic inequality, political manipulations, sports, and religion. While critical in subject matter, and replete with easily accessible and reliable sources, this book is highly readable and entertaining for the general as well as academic audience interested in current global issues.

Sociology. --- Political sociology. --- Economic sociology. --- Nutrition. --- Food. --- Mass media. --- Communication. --- Public Sociology. --- Political Sociology. --- Economic Sociology. --- Sociology of Food and Nutrition. --- Media Sociology. --- Media and Communication.

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Globalization. --- Rural development --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Agricultural Economics --- Sustainable agriculture. --- Sociological aspects. --- Agricultural Economics (General).

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316.7:796 --- Sociologie van de sport --- Sports and globalization. --- Sports --- Sociological aspects. --- 316.7:796 Sociologie van de sport --- Sports and globalization --- Sociology of sports --- Sociology --- Globalization and sports --- Globalization --- Sociological aspects

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Financialization is the increased influence of financial actors and logics on social and economic life, and is one of the key drivers transforming food systems and rural economies around the world. The premise of this book is that the actions of financial actors, and their financial logics, are transforming agri-food systems in profound ways. It is shown that although financialization is a powerful dynamic, some recent developments suggest that the rollout of financialization is contradictory and uneven in different spaces and markets. The book examines cases in which state regulation or re-regulation and social movement resistance are setting roadblocks or speed bumps in the path of financialization, resulting in a 'cooling off' of investment, as well as the other side of the argument where there is evidence of a 'heating up'. The authors address not only the limits to financialization, but also the mechanisms through which financial entities are able to penetrate and re-shape agri-food industries. This book provides both a comparative analysis of financialization blending, and empirical findings with conceptual insights. It explores the connection between financialization, food systems, and rural transformation by critically examining: the concept of financialization and how food and farming are being financialized; the impacts of financialization in the food industry; and financialization in farming and forestry - along with the impacts this has on rural people and communities. This is a timely book, bringing together concrete case studies, from around the globe, to reveal the operations and impacts of finance capital in the 'space' of agri-food.

Food industry and trade. --- Financialization. --- Agriculture --- Agrarian question --- Agribusiness --- Agricultural economics --- Agricultural production economics --- Production economics, Agricultural --- Land use, Rural --- Financialisation --- Financialized capitalism --- Capitalism --- Finance --- Food --- Food preparation industry --- Food processing --- Food processing industry --- Food technology --- Food trade --- Agricultural processing industries --- Processed foods --- Economic aspects. --- Economic aspects --- Processing --- Food industry and trade --- Financialization --- Agriculture - Economic aspects

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