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.
Geographies of Race and Food: Fields, Bodies, Markets
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...