Full Description
The market-leading interdisciplinary exploration of food and its essential place in our society by Canadian and international scholars.
Critical Perspectives in Food Studies is a compelling examination of the shifting interpretations, perspectives, challenges, governance issues, and future visions that shape the study of food and food issues in Canada and around the world. With new chapters on a diverse range of current food-related issues, this third edition continues to bring students original contributions by Canadian scholars that will inspire readers to consider the varied and complex means by which we bring food to the table.
Contents
NOTE: Each chapter also includes:
- Learning objectives
- Key terms, bolded at first use
- Discussion questions
- References
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Field
1: Finding Food Studies: A Map of the Field
Kelsey Speakman, Margaret Bancerz and Mustafa Koç
2: You Are What You Eat: Enjoying (and Transforming) Food Culture
Josée Johnston and Sarah Cappeliez
3: Constructing 'Healthy Eating' / Constructing Self
Brenda L. Beagan, Gwen E. Chapman and Andrea Kirkham
4: Evolving Understandings of Traditional Foods: Integrating Individual Knowledge and Community Practice NEW
Hannah Tait Neufeld
5: Critical Food Literacy NEW
Jennifer Sumner and Ellen Desjardins
Part II: Analytical Perspectives in Food Studies
6: Food and the Intersectionality of the Immigrant Experience in Settler Colonial Canada
pruneah Michelle Kim, Janika Oza and Mustafa Koç
7: Pestiewink/Wihokewin: Invitation to Indigenous and Intersectional Feminist Food Studies NEW
Sherry Pictou, Tabitha Robin, Barbara Parker, Jennifer Brady
8: Two Great Food Revolutions: The Domestication of Nature and the Transgression of Nature's Limits NEW
Robert Albritton
9: A Political Ecology Approach to Industrial Food Production
Tony Weis
10: Supermarkets, High Schools and Pseudo Foods: The Role of Obesogenic Food Environments in Promoting a Canadian Health Crisis
Anthony Winson
Part III: Crises and Challenges in the Food System
11: The Farm Crisis
Nettie Wiebe
12: The Welfare of Farm Animals on Intensive Livestock Operations (ILOs) in Canada
Shannon Kornelsen
13: The Food System in the Fisheries: Addressing the Crisis
Aparna Sundar
14: Food Insecurity: A Problem of Public Policy
Valerie Tarasuk
15: What constitutes good food? Understanding Indigenous food security, food sovereignty and health and well-being
Debbie Martin and Megan Matthews
Part IV: Challenging Food Governance
16: The Challenge of Informed Eating: Food Labelling, Advertising and the Cacophony of Digital Nutrition Advice
Irena Knezevic
17: Questioning the Assumptions of Genetically Modified Crops in Canada
E. Ann Clark
18: How the Legacies of the Last Global Food Crisis Sowed the Seeds for the Next One NEW
Jennifer Clapp, Andrea Collins and Phoebe Stephens
19: The Social Costs of Cheap Local Food: Migrant Workers in Canadian Agriculture
Tanya Basok
20: Food Policy for Health, Justice and Sustainability
Rod MacRae
Part V: Food for the Future
21: Urban Food Systems and the Importance of Food Policy Councils: The Toronto Perspective NEW
Laine Young, Lauren Baker and Lori Stahlbrand
22: A Systemic Perspective on Food Wastage and Wasted Food NEW
Kate Parizeau and Mike von Massow
23: Meeting the Recommendations Outlined in Canada's New Food Guide Through a National School Food Program NEW
Rachel Engler-Stringer, Ian Mosby and Sara Kirk
24: Alternative Food Initiatives, Food Movements and Collective Networks: A Pan-Canadian Perspective
Charles Z. Levkoe
25: Building Food Sovereignty: A Radical Framework for Alternative Food Systems
Annette Aurélie Desmarais
Glossary
Index
