The Ecopolitics of Consumption

by Louise Davis, Karyn Pilgrim (Editor), Madhudaya Sinha (Editor)

Today’s highly industrialized and technologically controlled global food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us, human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and exposes the myriad ways that the food systems, driven by global commodity capitalism and its imperative of growth at any cost, increasingly controls us and conforms us to our roles as consumers and producers. This collection covers a range of topics from the excess of consumers in the post-industrial world and the often unacknowledged yet intrinsic connection of their consumption to the growing ecological and health crises in developing nations, to topics of surveillance and control of human and nonhuman bodies through food, to the deep linkages of cultural values and norms toward food to the myriad crises we face on a global scale.

208 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 2015

About the author

Louise Davis is a young adult and children's book author who has an innate ability to instantly draw readers into her stories with her dramatic realism. By combining a commercial and accessible writing style with highly-riveting and twisting plotlines, Louise’s novels are truly unique works of literary art. Her recent manuscript artistically showcases her wide-range of writing skills weaving in romance, mystery, and suspense all in one thrilling book. It is through Louise’s profound character development and realistic storylines that she’s able to not only entertain her readers, but also teach them valuable life lessons in the process.

Although she was born in a small Idaho town, Louise has been all over the United States. She loves animals and currently has a horse (from Hawaii), two llamas, two dogs, and two cats. She lives in Idaho with her husband and five children. She has always loved reading books to her children and received a bachelor's degree with a focus in creative writing to write her own books.

​Her family's Gunstock Ranch on Oahu and her time spent there with her Grandpa inspired her first children's book, Grandpa's Boots.