Book Review: Atsuko Ichijo and Ronald Ranta, Food, National Identity and Nationalism: From Everyday to Global Politics
| Author | Manish Kumar |
| DOI | 10.1177/1478929916676760 |
| Published date | 01 February 2017 |
| Date | 01 February 2017 |
| Subject Matter | Book ReviewsGeneral Politics |
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25 years as a practising lawyer and 10 more as
straight through. Rather, readers will likely
a scholar, Christopher Hodges has much to say
mine it for insights and commentary relevant to
on this subject.
their own work and it will likely become an
He starts by arguing that while much legal
important reference point.
commentary has focussed on the efficacy of
Christopher May
various legal forms and practices deployed to
(Lancaster University)
regulate corporations, there has been less dis-
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cussion of how legal regulatory regimes shape
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and influence corporate decision-making.
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Because Hodges regards corporations as no
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more than the sum of those who work in and
manage them, his starting point is psychology
and, to a lesser extent, cultural influence. This
Food, National Identity and Nationalism:
leads him to stress the values (personal and
From Everyday to Global Politics by Atsuko
cultural) of corporate employees (from man-
Ichijo and Ronald Ranta. Basingstoke: Palgrave
agement down) and to align himself with writ-
Macmillan, 2016. 196pp., £63.00 (h/b), ISBN
ers from Colin Meyer to John Kay who have
9781137483126
seen the global financial crisis more as an issue
of bad behaviour than the result of structural
Food, National Identity and Nationalism estab-
contradictions. However, this does not mean
lishes a link between food and nationalism.
that Hodges is uncritical. Rather, he adopts the
The book makes an attempt to analyse politics,
(not unprecedented) position that economic
political economy and international relations in
commentary and regulation has for too long
the same context. The authors present a bi-
worked on the basis that economic man is self-
directional approach; the first a bottom-up
ish (and that this is socially acceptable). What
approach and...
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