Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "food"
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Encouraging Healthful Dietary Behavior in a Hospital Cafeteria: A Field Study Using Theories from Social Psychology and Behavioral Economics
(2013-09-30)Public policy efforts to curb obesity often adhere to a rational actor model of human behavior, asserting that consumer behavior will change provided proper economic incentives, nutritional information, and health education. ... -
Food after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines questions of citizenship and risk after the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. I argue that for sectors of the population concerned with the health effects of radiation exposure, the disaster ... -
Independent India of Plenty: Food, Hunger, and Nation-Building in Modern India
(2014-06-06)This dissertation situates debates over food procurement, provision, and hunger as the key economic and social contestations structuring the late colonial and postcolonial Indian state. It juxtaposes the visions of national ...