Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods

When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism

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Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods

When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism

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This book critically examines contemporary health and wellness culture through the lens of personalization, genetification and functional foods. These developments have had a significant impact on the intersecting categories of gender, race, and class in light of the increasing adoption of digital health and surveillance technologies like MyFitnessPal, Lifesum, HealthyifyMe, and Fooducate. These three vectors of identity, when analysed in relation to food, diet, health, and technology, reveal significant new ways in which inequality, hierarchy, and injustice become manifest.

In the book, Tina Sikka argues that the corporate-led trends associated with health apps, genetic testing, superfoods, and functional foods have produced a kind of dietary-genomic-functional food industrial complex. She makes the positive case for a prosocial, food secure, and biodiverse health and food culture that is rooted in community action, supported by strong public provisioning of health care, and grounded in principles of food justice and sovereignty.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Neoliberalism, the Biopolitics of Food & The Instrumentalization of Food
3. Personalised Nutrition, Dietary Apps, and the Genetification of Diets
4. Superfoods, Functional Foods and the Instrumentalization of Diets
5. Rethinking Personalisation and Prosocial Alternative Food Networks
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published Aug 22 2024
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 248
ISBN 9781350202078
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 10 bw illus
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Tina Sikka

Tina Sikka is Reader in Technoscience and Intersec…

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