Critical Food Studies: Critical Food Studies
About the Book Series
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The study of food has seldom been more pressing or prescient. From the intensifying globalization of food, a world-wide food crisis and the continuing inequalities of its production and consumption, to food's exploding media presence, and its growing re-connections to places and people through 'alternative food movements', this series promotes critical explorations of contemporary food cultures and politics. Building on previous but disparate scholarship, its overall aims are to develop innovative and theoretical lenses and empirical material in order to contribute to - but also begin to more fully delineate - the confines and confluences of an agenda of critical food research and writing. Of particular concern are original theoretical and empirical treatments of the materialisations of food politics, meanings and representations, the shifting political economies and ecologies of food production and consumption and the growing transgressions between alternative and corporatist food networks.
Sustainable Food Consumption in China: Changing Foodscapes, Values and Practices
1st Edition
By Alex Hughes, Shuru Zhong, Mike Crang, Guojun Zeng, Fernando Fastoso, Hector Gonzalez Jimenez, Bob Doherty
June 18, 2025
This book investigates the current and potential roles of food consumption to address sustainability challenges in China. Focusing on the megacity of Guangzhou, it looks at sustainability and food from the perspectives of government, commercial, and third sector actors, and through the lived ...
Artists and the Practice of Agriculture: Politics and Aesthetics of Food Sovereignty in Art since 1960
1st Edition
By Silvia Bottinelli
November 29, 2024
Artists and the Practice of Agriculture maps out examples of artistic practices that engage with the aesthetics and politics of gathering food, growing edible and medicinal plants, and interacting with non-human collaborators. In the hands of contemporary artists, farming and foraging become forms ...
Revaluing Horticultural Skills: The Knowledge and Labour of Growing Food
1st Edition
By Hannah Pitt
November 29, 2024
This book highlights the value and skill of horticultural work through stories of food cultivation. It examines the difficulties that arise from the perception that this type of activity is unskilled and the importance of acknowledging the expertise involved in growing food. The book provides a ...
The Rhetorical Construction of Vegetarianism
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina Hanganu-Bresch
October 08, 2024
This book explores themes in the rhetoric of vegetarian discourse. A vegan practice may help mitigate crises such as climate change, global health challenges, and sharpening socioeconomic disparities, by ensuring both fairness in the treatment of animals and food justice for marginalized ...
Food Marketing and Selling Healthy Lifestyles with Science: Transhistorical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Lauren Alex O'Hagan, Göran Eriksson
September 17, 2024
This book sets out to historicise our understanding of contemporary trends by studying the long relationship between science, food and drink marketing and the promotion of healthy lifestyles. It aims to bring together contemporary and historical research from a multimodal perspective, considering ...
Hunger and Postcolonial Writing
1st Edition
By Muzna Rahman
May 27, 2024
Hunger and Postcolonial Writing explores contemporary postcolonial fiction and life-writing from various geo-political contexts. The focus of this work is hunger; individuated in the self-imposed starvation of the hunger protester, and on a mass scale in the form of famine and food insecurity. It ...
Food Sovereignty and Urban Agriculture: Concepts, Politics, and Practice in South Africa
1st Edition
By Anne Siebert
January 29, 2024
This book analyses the interplay of urban agriculture and food sovereignty through the innovative lens of the "critical urban food perspective". It focuses on the mobilisation of urban food producers as a powerful response to highly exclusionary dynamics in the agri-food system including ...
Food and Cooking on Early Television in Europe: Impact on Postwar Foodways
1st Edition
Edited
By Ana Tominc
September 25, 2023
This collection critically examines the role of food programming on European early television and the impact this might have had on food habits and identities for the European audiences. It foregrounds various food programme genres, from travelog, cooking show and TV cooking competition, to more ...
Food System Transformations: Social Movements, Local Economies, Collaborative Networks
1st Edition
Edited
By Cordula Kropp, Irene Antoni-Komar, Colin Sage
January 09, 2023
This book examines the role of local food movements, enterprises and networks in the transformation of the currently unsustainable global food system. It explores a series of innovations designed to re-integrate sustainable modes of food production and encourage food sovereignty. It provides ...
Shifting Food Facts: Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture
1st Edition
By Alissa Overend
May 30, 2022
This book offers a much-needed reframing of food discourse by presenting alternative ways of thinking about the changing politics of food, eating, and nutrition. It examines critical epistemological questions of how food knowledge comes to be shaped and why we see pendulum swings when it comes to ...
Agrifood System Transitions in Brazil: New Food Orders
1st Edition
By Paulo André Niederle, Valdemar João Wesz Junior
April 29, 2022
This book explores the agrifood system transitions in Brazil to provide a new understanding of the trajectory of agriculture and rural development in this country. It accentuates the increasing diversifi cation and hybridization of food production and consumption practices throughout history. With...
Food Insecurity: A Matter of Justice, Sovereignty, and Survival
1st Edition
Edited
By Tamar Mayer, Molly D. Anderson
April 29, 2022
This book explores the experiences, causes, and consequences of food insecurity in different geographical regions and historical eras. It highlights collective and political actions aimed at food sovereignty as solutions to mitigate suffering. Despite global efforts to end hunger, it persists and ...