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A Critique of the ‘Paleo Diet’
Author(s) -
Ashley Reeves
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
contingent horizons
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2292-7514
pISSN - 2292-6739
DOI - 10.25071/2292-6739.75
Subject(s) - politics , millenarianism , consumption (sociology) , inequality , food insecurity , sociology , power (physics) , dynamics (music) , political economy , development economics , political science , environmental ethics , social science , food security , ecology , economics , biology , mathematical analysis , physics , philosophy , mathematics , quantum mechanics , law , agriculture , pedagogy
Relatively little has been written about the social, economic and political dynamics and relationships that are engendered through Paleo culture. Examining the tensions within and between the ‘Paleo Diet’ principles and practices reveals the application of a technical solution to a structural problem: power dynamics created at an individual and group level by the Paleo culture reveals an emergent food classism rooted in socio-economic and racialized inequalities. Participation in and adherence to the Paleo lifestyle (or the inability to do so) creates particular types of social subjects and subjectivities based on the implicit moralization of food and consumption practices. While the Paleo Diet reflects millenarian apprehensions about the state of the contemporary world and concerns with global food quality and food insecurity, it is dependent on and exacerbates the socio-economic dynamics and marginalizing practices of a global food regime that it seeks to critique and abandon.

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