Full Description
Few things are as important as the food we eat. Conversations in Food Studies demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-your-own-wine movement, to urban household waste, are theproduct of collaborating teams of interdisciplinary authors. Readers are invited to engage and reflect on the theories and practices underlying some of the most important issues facing the emerging field of foodstudies today.
Conversations in Food Studies brings to the table thirteen original contributions organized around the themes of representation, governance, disciplinary boundaries, and, finally, learning through food. This collection offers an important and groundbreaking approach to food studies as it examines and reworks the boundaries that have traditionally structured the academy and that underlie much of food studies literature.
Contents
Introduction
Part 1. Re-presenting Disciplinary Praxis
Chapter 1. Visual Methods for Collaborative Food System Work
Chapter 2. Stirring the Pot: The Performativities of Making Food Texts
Chapter 3. Problematizing Milk: Considering Production Beyond the Food System
Chapter 4. Food Talk: Composing the Agricultural Land Reserve
Part 2. Who, What and How: Governing Food Systems
Chapter 5. Governance Challenges for Local food systems: Emerging Lessons From Agriculture and Fisheries
Chapter 6. The Bottle at the Centre of a Changing Foodscape: 'Bring Your Own Wine' in the Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montreal
Chapter 7. Finding Balance: Food Safety, Food Security, and Public Health
Part 3. 'Un-doing' Food Studies: A Case for Flexible Fencing
Chapter 8. Evaluating the Cultural Politics of Alternative Food Movements: The Limitations of Cultivating Awareness
Chapter 9. Sustenance: Contested Definitions of the Sustainable Diet
Chapter10. From 'Farm to Table' to 'Farm to Dump': Emerging Research on Urban Household Food Waste in the Global South
Chapter11. A Meta-Analysis on the Constitution and Configuration of Alternative Food Networks
Part 4. Scaling Learning in Agri-food Systems
Chapter12. Transitioning Towards Sustainable Food and Farming: Interactions Between Learning and Practice in Community Spaces
Chapter13. Pedagogical Encounters: Critical Food Pedagogy and Transformative Learning in the School and Community
