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.
Practising Empowerment in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Wine, Ethics and Development
1st Edition
By Agatha Herman
March 31, 2021
Despite the promise and optimism surrounding the post-apartheid transition, South African society continues to be highly racialised in its discourses, identities and practices, even within the very strategies that aim to change power relations and heal racialised divisions. Renowned for its brutal ...
Digital Food Cultures
1st Edition
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By Deborah Lupton, Zeena Feldman
March 11, 2020
This book explores the interrelations between food, technology and knowledge-sharing practices in producing digital food cultures. Digital Food Cultures adopts an innovative approach to examine representations and practices related to food across a variety of digital media: blogs and vlogs (video ...
Geographies of Meat: Politics, Economy and Culture
1st Edition
By Harvey Neo, Jody Emel
December 19, 2018
With the ever rising demand for meat around the world, the production of meat has changed dramatically in the past few decades. What has brought about the increasing popularity and attendant normalization of factory farms across many parts of the world? What are some of the ways to resist such...
Food Pedagogies
1st Edition
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By Rick Flowers, Elaine Swan
February 12, 2018
In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow, buy, prepare, present, cook, taste, eat and dispose of food. In light of this, contributors to this book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a ...
Food and Media: Practices, Distinctions and Heterotopias
1st Edition
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By Jonatan Leer, Karen Klitgaard Povlsen
February 12, 2018
Food is everywhere in contemporary mediascapes, as witnessed by the increase in cookbooks, food magazines, television cookery shows, online blogs, recipes, news items and social media posts about food. This mediatization of food means that the media often interplays between food consumption and ...
Careful Eating: Bodies, Food and Care
1st Edition
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By Emma-Jayne Abbots, Anna Lavis, Luci Attala
January 24, 2018
Critically reflecting on the interplays between food and care, this multidisciplinary volume asks ’why do individuals, institutions and agencies care about what other people eat?’ It explores how acts of caring about food and eating shape and intervene in individual bodies as well as being enacted ...
Liquid Materialities: A History of Milk, Science and the Law
1st Edition
By Peter Atkins
November 10, 2016
As a food, milk has been revered and ignored, respected and feared. In the face of its 'material resistance', attempts were made to purify it of dirt and disease, and to standardize its fat content. This is a history of the struggle to bring milk under control, to manipulate its naturally variable...
Geographies of Race and Food: Fields, Bodies, Markets
1st Edition
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By Rachel Slocum, Arun Saldanha
October 19, 2016
While interest in the relations of power and identity in food explodes, a hesitancy remains about calling these racial. What difference does race make in the fields where food is grown, the places it is sold and the manner in which it is eaten? How do we understand farming and provisioning, tasting...
Doing Nutrition Differently: Critical Approaches to Diet and Dietary Intervention
1st Edition
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By Allison Hayes-Conroy
October 10, 2016
'Hegemonic nutrition' is produced and proliferated by a wide variety of social institutions such as mainstream nutrition science, clinical nutrition as well as those less classically linked such as life science/agro-food companies, the media, family, education, religion and the law. The collective ...
Food Transgressions: Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics
1st Edition
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By Michael K. Goodman, Colin Sage
September 30, 2016
Reconnecting so-called alternative food geographies back to the mainstream food system - especially in light of the discursive and material 'transgressions' currently happening between alternative and conventional food networks, this volume critically interrogates and evaluates what stands for '...
Embodied Food Politics
1st Edition
By Michael S. Carolan
September 08, 2016
While the phenomenon of embodied knowledge is becoming integrated into the social sciences, critical geography, and feminist research agendas it continues to be largely ignored by agro-food scholars. This book helps fill this void by inserting into the food literature living, feeling, sensing ...
Why We Eat, How We Eat: Contemporary Encounters between Foods and Bodies
1st Edition
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By Emma-Jayne Abbots, Anna Lavis
August 26, 2016
Why We Eat, How We Eat maps new terrains in thinking about relations between bodies and foods. With the central premise that food is both symbolic and material, the volume explores the intersections of current critical debates regarding how individuals eat and why they eat. Through a wide-ranging ...