Conversations in Food Studies

edited by Colin R. Anderson; Charles Z. Levkoe; Jennifer Brady, contributions by Steffanie Scott; Eva A. Bogdan; Robyn Bunn; Carmen Wong; Keith Lee; Penny Van Esterik; Lani Trenouth; David Szanto; Matt Ventresca; Jennifer Sumner; Kristen Lowitt; Arthur Green; Chantal Clement; Robert Jennings; Kirsten Valentine Cadieux; Huddart Kennedy; Jennifer A. Braun; Cathryn Sprague; Keren Rideout; Cassie Wever; Samara Brock; Mark Bomford; Mary A. Beckie; Wanda Martin; Victoria Millious; Phil Mount; Tammara Soma; Erika Mundel; Alan Nash; Seriy Polyakov; Ankit Gupta; Anais Detolle; Josee Johnson; Ahmed Khan & Konstantinos Zougris, foreword by Mustafa Koc

tagged: agriculture & food, food industry, agriculture & food)

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 the product 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 food studies 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.

About the Authors

Colin R. Anderson is a researcher at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University in the United Kingdom.

Charles Z. Levkoe is the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Food Systems and an assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Lakehead University.

Jennifer Brady is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Human Nutrition at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Editorial Review

“This lively collection of diverse food studies papers delivers on its promise of boundary-testing interdisciplinarity. The insights presented within its pages reflect an intellectually sophisticated dialogue on food studies in Canada, providing hope for equally sophisticated food system interventions.”

— Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

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