Critical Perspectives in Food Studies

Bringing together original contributions by Canadian scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds, Critical Perspectives in Food Studies introduces students to 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. Offering the most up-to-date overview of the field, this second edition incorporates new chapters on a range of current food-related issues, including food security, farm animal welfare, genetically modified crops, sustainability, and alternative food systems.

1 - The Interdisciplinary Field of Food Studies
2 - Changing Food Systems from Top to Bottom: Political Economy and Social Movements Perspectives
3 - You Are What You Eat: Enjoying (and Transforming) Food Culture
4 - Canada's Food History Through Cookbooks
5 - Constructing "Healthy Eating"/Constructing Self
6 - Still Hungry for a Feminist Food Studies
7 - Critical Dietetics: Challenging the Profession from Within (NEW)
8 - Two Great Food Revolutions: The Domestication of Nature and the Transgression of Nature's Limits
9 - A Political Ecology Approach to Industrial Food Production
10 - Crisis in the Food System: The Farm Crisis
11 - The Welfare of Farm Animals on Intensive Livestock Operations (ILOs) in Canada (NEW)
12 - The Food System in the Fisheries: Crisis and Alternatives
13 - Spatial Colonization of Food Environments by Pseudo Food Companies: Precursors of a Health Crisis
14 - What Constitutes Good Food? Toward a Critical Indigenous Perspective on Food and Health
15 - Origins and Consequences of Responses to Food Insecurity in Canada (NEW)
16 - Making Wise Food Choices: Food Labelling, Advertising, and the Challenge of Informed Eating
17 - Questioning the Assumptions of Genetically Modified Crops in Canada (NEW)
18 - Global Food Security Governance: Key Actors, Issues, and Dynamics (NEW)
19 - Municipal Governance and Urban Food Systems
20 - Food Policy for the Twenty-First Century
21 - Conceptualizing Sustainable Food Systems
22 - Actualizing Sustainable Food Systems (NEW)
23 - Alternative Food Initiatives, Food Movements, and Collaborative Networks: A Pan-Canadian Perspective (NEW)
24 - Building Food Sovereignty: A Radical Framework for Socially Just and Ecologically Sustainable Food Systems

Mustafa Koç is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. He was among the founders of the Centre for Studies in Food Security, was the chair of Food Secure Canada from 2005-2006, and was president of the Canadian Association for Food Studies from 2005-2008. His research and teaching interests are food studies, food security and food policy, globalization, and the sociology of migration. He has also been involved in various national and global debates on globalization, social change and development, food security, and peace. Jennifer Sumner is an assistant professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. She is also the Director of the Certificate Program in Adult Education for Sustainability. Her research and teaching interests include food studies, sustainable food systems and the political economy of food, as well as globalization, sustainability, and organic agriculture. Anthony Winson is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph. He has been writing on agriculture, food, and rural development issues related to Canada and the developing world for more than twenty years.