Name: Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan. Nourishing National Identity
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Author: Stephanie Assmann
ISBN: 9789462985247

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Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan. Nourishing National Identity

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Amsterdam University Press

Autor

Stephanie Assmann

Colección

Consumption and Sustainability in Asia

Año

2025

N° páginas

202

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.4x15.6 cm

ISBN13

9789462985247

Food Education and Rural Resilience in Japan. Nourishing National Identity

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Food education initiatives exist worldwide, but Japan remains unique with its food education law known as shokuiku. The country’s impressive health metrics — high life expectancies, low obesity, and affordable health care — often lead observers to praise this approach. This book presents a more nuanced analysis. First, it challenges the assumption that food education is wholly a “good thing” by exposing underlying power mechanisms. Through food diagrams, food fairs, and school lunch programs, government ministries promote both nationalism and traditional gender roles. Second, it explores how food education operates in Japan’s rural regions, where educators champion resilience and food self-sufficiency to alleviate depopulation and economic decline. This emphasis on local food persisted even in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Using Foucault’s concept of governmentality, historical contextualization, and extensive fieldwork in rural Japan, this study reveals the complex political agenda driving food education in a non-Western society.