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Description of  Feeding Anxieties: The Politics of Children's Food in Poland (New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations, 6)

1800738714 pdf Focusing on the underlying politics behind childrens food, this book highlights the variety of social relationships, expectations and emotions ingrained in feeding children in Poland. With rich ethnographic accounts, including research with children, the book demonstrates how families, schools, the food industry and state agencies shape and experience feeding anxieties, and how such anxiety is at the heart of a new form of sociality. The book complicates our understanding of health and modern subjectivity and unpacks what and how we feed children today.