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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 second 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.

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Author:   Mustafa V. Koc ,  Jennifer Sumner ,  Anthony Winson
Publisher:   Oxford University Press, Canada
Imprint:   Oxford University Press, Canada
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.592kg
ISBN:  

9780199019618

ISBN 10:   0199019614
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   15 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Significance of Food and Food Studies, Mustafa Koc, Jennifer Sumner, and Anthony Winson Part I: The Changing Meanings of Food and Food Studies 1: The Interdisciplinary Field of Food Studies, Mustafa Koc, Margaret Bancerz, and Kelsey Speakman 2: Changing Food Systems from Top to Bottom: Political Economy and Social Movements Perspectives, Harriet Friedmann 3: You Are What You Eat: Enjoying (and Transforming) Food Culture, Josee Johnston and Sarah Cappeliez 4: Canada's Food History Through Cookbooks, Nathalie Cooke 5: Constructing Healthy Eating /Constructing Self, Brenda L. Beagan and Gwen E. Chapman Part II: Analytical Perspectives in Food Studies 6: Still Hungry for a Feminist Food Studies, Jennifer Brady, Elaine Power, Michelle Szabo, and Jacqui Gingras 7: Critical Dietetics: Challenging the Profession from Within (NEW), Jacqui Gingras, Yuka Asada, Jennifer Brady, and Lucy Aphramor 8: Two Great Food Revolutions: The Domestication of Nature and the Transgression of Nature's Limits, Robert Albritton 9: A Political Ecology Approach to Industrial Food Production, Tony Weis Part III: Crises and Challenges in the Food System 10: Crisis in the Food System: The Farm Crisis, Nettie Wiebe 11: The Welfare of Farm Animals on Intensive Livestock Operations (ILOs) in Canada (NEW), Shannon Kornelsen 12: The Food System in the Fisheries: Crisis and Alternatives, Aparna Sundar 13: Spatial Colonization of Food Environments by Pseudo Food Companies: Precursors of a Health Crisis, Anthony Winson 14: What Constitutes Good Food? Towards a Critical Indigenous Perspective on Food and Health, Debbie Martin and Margaret Amos 15: Origins and Consequences of and Responses to Food Insecurity in Canada (NEW), Naomi Dachner and Valerie Tarasuk Part IV: Challenging Food Governance 16: Making Wise Food Choices: Food Labelling, Advertising, and the Challenge of Informed Eating, Irena Knezevic 17: Questioning the Assumptions of Genetically Modified Crops in Canada (NEW), E. Ann Clark 18: Global Food Security Governance: Key Actors, Issues, and Dynamics (NEW), Matias E. Margulis and Jessica Duncan 19: Municipal Governance and Urban Food Systems, Wendy Mendes Part V: Food for the Future 20: Food Policy for the 21st Century, Rod MacRae 21: Conceptualizing Sustainable Food Systems, ennifer Sumner 22: Actualizing Sustainable Food Systems (NEW), Ashley McInnes and Phil Mount 23: Alternative Food Initiatives, Food Movements, and Collaborative Networks: A Pan-Canadian Perspective (NEW), Charles Z. Levkoe 24: Building Food Sovereignty: A Radical Framework for Socially Just and Ecologically Sustainable Food Systems, Annette Aurelie Desmarais Conclusion

Reviews

This book provides an introduction to the breadth of Canadian food studies, a deepening interdisciplinary field, and offers students critical analysis and insight into the most pressing issues facing our food systems. This book is a key text for introducing students to Food Studies. --Barbara Parker, Lakehead University It reflect[s] the current state of the discipline and more: it is a trend setter. --Frehiwot Tesfaye, York University

This book provides an introduction to the breadth of Canadian food studies, a deepening interdisciplinary field, and offers students critical analysis and insight into the most pressing issues facing our food systems. This book is a key text for introducing students to Food Studies. --Barbara Parker, Lakehead University It reflect[s] the current state of the discipline and more: it is a trend setter. --Frehiwot Tesfaye, York University

Author Information

Mustafa Koc is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. He was among the founders of the Centre for Studies in Food Security, was the chair of Food Secure Canada from 2005-2006, and was president of the Canadian Association for Food Studies from 2005-2008. His research and teaching interests are food studies, food security and food policy, globalization, and the sociology of migration. He has also been involved in various national and global debates on globalization, social change and development, food security, and peace. Jennifer Sumner is an assistant professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. She is also the Director of the Certificate Program in Adult Education for Sustainability. Her research and teaching interests include food studies, sustainable food systems and the political economy of food, as well as globalization, sustainability, and organic agriculture. Anthony Winson is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph. He has been writing on agriculture, food, and rural development issues related to Canada and the developing world for more than twenty years.

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