Alimentación y poder:De los problemas culturales a los problemas políticos, un viraje necesario en la historia de la alimentación contemporánea

This paper considers the political dynamics in food studies. It emphasizes the contemporary history of food. It consists of an introduction and justification of what we have called the political perspective of the food fact; another review and comment on the becoming of the history of food, accentuating the cultural perspective; and finally, an approach to discourses around food that could influencethepolitical provisions in the second half of the twentieth century, highlighting the contrasts between the concepts of food security and sovereignty.