Horsemeat-gate -The discursive production of a neoliberal food scandal

Food, Culture and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 535-550

  Abbots, Emma Jayne ^a   Coles, Benjamin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agri industrial food; Buying local; Discursive formations; Food nationalism; Food safety; Fraught food; Neoliberalism; Supply networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891771738     PISSN: 15528014     EISSN: 17517443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2752/175174413X13758634981976     Document Type: Article

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