Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- PART I. DEBATING THE FUTURE OF FOOD -- 1 The Stakes in Our Steaks -- 2 The Debate: Will the World Run Out of Food? -- 3 The Deep Structure of the Debate -- PART II. IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF FOOD -- 4 The Utopian Caveat -- 5 Dystopias -- PART III. THINGS TO COME --...

Introduction : longing, belonging and the making of Jewish consumer culture / Nils Roemer and Gideon Reuveni -- Jewish consumer culture in historical and contemporary perspective / David Biale -- German-Jewish spatial cultures : consuming and refashioning Jewish belonging in Berlin, 1890-1910 /...

Bringing together perspectives from the new economic sociology and new cultural sociology, this paper proposes that because economic phenomena are imbued with meaning they can be studied as cultural objects. In particular, the goal is to analyze the public discussions surrounding the sales of...