Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
About the Book Series
This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to food, society and the environment. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Civic Engagement in Food System Governance: A comparative perspective of American and British local food movements
1st Edition
By Alan R. Hunt
January 22, 2018
The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 documents, interviews, and participant observations, and provides the first descriptive history of local food movement national policy achievements in ...
Eating Traditional Food: Politics, identity and practices
1st Edition
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By Brigitte Sebastia
January 08, 2018
Due to its centrality in human activities, food is a meaningful object that necessarily participates in any cultural, social and ideological construction and its qualification as 'traditional' is a politically laden value. This book demonstrates that traditionality as attributed to foods ...
Feeding Cities: Improving local food access, security, and resilience
1st Edition
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By Christopher Bosso
January 08, 2018
There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, ...
Food Consumption in the City: Practices and patterns in urban Asia and the Pacific
1st Edition
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By Marlyne Sahakian, Czarina Saloma, Suren Erkman
January 08, 2018
Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, tourism, architecture and development studies to provide a ...
Savoring Alternative Food: School gardens, healthy eating and visceral difference
1st Edition
By Jessica Hayes-Conroy
December 08, 2017
Advocates of the alternative food movement often insist that food is our "common ground" – that through the very basic human need to eat, we all become entwined in a network of mutual solidarity. In this challenging book, the author explores the contradictions and shortcomings of alternative ...
Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity: Constructing and contesting knowledge
1st Edition
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By Michel. P. Pimbert
October 31, 2017
Contestations over knowledge – and who controls its production – are a key focus of social movements and other actors that promote food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity. This book critically examines the kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing needed for food sovereignty, ...
Public Policies for Food Sovereignty: Social Movements and the State
1st Edition
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By Annette Aurelie Desmarais, Priscilla Claeys, Amy Trauger
October 13, 2017
An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through food sovereignty. Some are pressuring to institutionalize food sovereignty principles and practices through laws, policies, and programs. ...
Global Food Security Governance: Civil society engagement in the reformed Committee on World Food Security
1st Edition
By Jessica Duncan
October 12, 2017
In 2007/8 world food prices spiked and global economic crisis set in, leaving hundreds of millions of people unable to access adequate food. The international reaction was swift. In a bid for leadership, the 123 member countries of the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security (CFS) adopted ...
Sustainable Food Futures: Multidisciplinary Solutions
1st Edition
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By Jessica Duncan, Megan Bailey
August 22, 2017
Securing sustainable food for everyone is one of the world's most pressing challenges, but research, policy, and programmes remain fragmented, and effective solutions have been slow to emerge. This book takes on these challenges by proposing a range of solutions that can advance pathways towards ...
Food Utopias: Reimagining citizenship, ethics and community
1st Edition
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By Paul V. Stock, Michael Carolan, Christopher Rosin
June 16, 2017
Food is a contentious and emotive issue, subject to critiques from multiple perspectives. Alternative food movements – including the different articulations of local, food miles, seasonality, food justice, food knowledge and food sovereignty – consistently invoke themes around autonomy, sufficiency...
Street Food: Culture, economy, health and governance
1st Edition
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By Ryzia De Cassia Vieira Cardoso, Michèle Companion, Stefano Roberto Marras
February 07, 2017
Prepared foods, for sale in streets, squares or markets, are ubiquitous around the world and throughout history. This volume is one of the first to provide a comprehensive social science perspective on street food, illustrating its immense cultural diversity and economic significance, both in ...
Food Literacy: Key concepts for health and education
1st Edition
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By Helen Vidgen
April 22, 2016
Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity. Eating is an everyday event that is part of everyone’s lives. There are many commentaries on the nature of these changes to what, where and how we eat and their ...