Critical Perspectives in Food Studies

3. Revised Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-903409-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press, Canada

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 236 mm x 191 mm, Gewicht: 668 g

The market-leading interdisciplinary exploration of food and its essential place in our society by Canadian and international scholars.

Critical Perspectives in Food Studies is a compelling examination of the shifting interpretations, perspectives, challenges, governance issues, and future visions that shape the study of food and food issues in Canada and around the world. With new chapters on a diverse range of current food-related issues, this third edition continues to bring students original contributions by Canadian scholars that will inspire readers to consider the varied and complex means by which we bring food to the table.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koc, Mustafa

Sumner, Jennifer

Winson, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- NOTE: Each chapter also includes:

- - Learning objectives

- - Key terms, bolded at first use

- - Discussion questions

- - References

- Preface

- Acknowledgements

- Part 1: Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Field

- 1: Finding Food Studies: A Map of the Field

- Kelsey Speakman, Margaret Bancerz and Mustafa Koç

- 2: You Are What You Eat: Enjoying (and Transforming) Food Culture

- Josée Johnston and Sarah Cappeliez

- 3: Constructing 'Healthy Eating' / Constructing Self

- Brenda L. Beagan, Gwen E. Chapman and Andrea Kirkham

- 4: Evolving Understandings of Traditional Foods: Integrating Individual Knowledge and Community Practice NEW

- Hannah Tait Neufeld

- 5: Critical Food Literacy NEW

- Jennifer Sumner and Ellen Desjardins

- Part II: Analytical Perspectives in Food Studies

- 6: Food and the Intersectionality of the Immigrant Experience in Settler Colonial Canada

- pruneah Michelle Kim, Janika Oza and Mustafa Koç

- 7: Pestiewink/Wihokewin: Invitation to Indigenous and Intersectional Feminist Food Studies NEW

- Sherry Pictou, Tabitha Robin, Barbara Parker, Jennifer Brady

- 8: Two Great Food Revolutions: The Domestication of Nature and the Transgression of Nature's Limits NEW

- Robert Albritton

- 9: A Political Ecology Approach to Industrial Food Production

- Tony Weis

- 10: Supermarkets, High Schools and Pseudo Foods: The Role of Obesogenic Food Environments in Promoting a Canadian Health Crisis

- Anthony Winson

- Part III: Crises and Challenges in the Food System

- 11: The Farm Crisis

- Nettie Wiebe

- 12: The Welfare of Farm Animals on Intensive Livestock Operations (ILOs) in Canada

- Shannon Kornelsen

- 13: The Food System in the Fisheries: Addressing the Crisis

- Aparna Sundar

- 14: Food Insecurity: A Problem of Public Policy

- Valerie Tarasuk

- 15: What constitutes good food? Understanding Indigenous food security, food sovereignty and health and well-being

- Debbie Martin and Megan Matthews

- Part IV: Challenging Food Governance

- 16: The Challenge of Informed Eating: Food Labelling, Advertising and the Cacophony of Digital Nutrition Advice

- Irena Knezevic

- 17: Questioning the Assumptions of Genetically Modified Crops in Canada

- E. Ann Clark

- 18: How the Legacies of the Last Global Food Crisis Sowed the Seeds for the Next One NEW

- Jennifer Clapp, Andrea Collins and Phoebe Stephens

- 19: The Social Costs of Cheap Local Food: Migrant Workers in Canadian Agriculture

- Tanya Basok

- 20: Food Policy for Health, Justice and Sustainability

- Rod MacRae

- Part V: Food for the Future

- 21: Urban Food Systems and the Importance of Food Policy Councils: The Toronto Perspective NEW

- Laine Young, Lauren Baker and Lori Stahlbrand

- 22: A Systemic Perspective on Food Wastage and Wasted Food NEW

- Kate Parizeau and Mike von Massow

- 23: Meeting the Recommendations Outlined in Canada's New Food Guide Through a National School Food Program NEW

- Rachel Engler-Stringer, Ian Mosby and Sara Kirk

- 24: Alternative Food Initiatives, Food Movements and Collective Networks: A Pan-Canadian Perspective

- Charles Z. Levkoe

- 25: Building Food Sovereignty: A Radical Framework for Alternative Food Systems

- Annette Aurélie Desmarais

- Glossary

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mustafa Koç is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University.

Jennifer Sumner is the Coordinator of the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Anthony Winson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.