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Critical Food Studies: Critical Food Studies

About the Book Series

To submit a book proposal or to discuss an idea, please contact Faye Leerink, Commissioning Editor: [email protected]

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.

28 Series Titles


Doing Nutrition Differently Critical Approaches to Diet and Dietary Intervention

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

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

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

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 ...

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