Critical Approaches to Superfoods

List of Figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements


1.Introduction. Tracking Superfoods
Emma McDonell and Richard Wilk

Part I. Making foods super

2.From Seasonal Specialty to Superfood: Almonds, Overproduction, and the Semiotics of The Spatial Fix
Emily Reisman

3."The New Pomegranate": Rooibos Magic, Traditional Knowledge, and the Politics and Possibilities of Superfoods
Sarah Ives

4.Extractionist logics: the missing link between functional foods and superfoods
Christy Spackman

Part III. Working miracles

5."A Really Good Story Behind It": Moringa Bars and Venture Capital Funding
Julie Guthman

6.The Miracle Crop as a Boundary Object: Quinoa's Rise as a "Neglected and Under-Utilized Species"
Emma McDonell

7.What Makes Food Super? The Post-Eugenic Promises of Fish Flour and Other Super Powders
Hannah LeBlanc

Part III. Superfood trajectories

8.From Superfood to Staple? Tracing the Complex Commoditization of Kale
Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio and Anacorita O. Abasolo

9.The Global Acai?: A Chronicle of Possibilities and Predicaments of an Amazonian Superfood
Eduardo S. Brondizio

10.Amaranth's "Rediscovery" In Mexico: A Path Towards Decolonization of Food?
Florence Betrisey and Valerie Boisvert

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• Tecnologia dos alimentos e bebidas
• Comida e sociedade
• Antropologia social e cultural