Critical Perspectives in Food Studies

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

Instructor's Manual:
Each chapter includes:
- A brief 2-3 sentence chapter overview
- Learning objectives
- 2-3 class activities/video weblinks (e.g., CBC, TED Talks, YouTube), including a short summary for each
- 2-3 discussion questions for each video
Test Bank:
Each chapter includes:
- 12 multiple choice questions with answers
- 7 true-or-false questions with answers
- 5 short answer questions with sample answers
PowerPoint slides:
For each chapter:
- 10-15 summary slides
- Slides cover all areas of the chapter

Mustafa Koç is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University.

Jennifer Sumner is the Coordinator of the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Anthony Winson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.

Making Sense in the Social Sciences - Margot Northey, Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia Albanese
A Sociology of Food and Nutrition - John Germov and Lauren Williams

Special Features

• Interdisciplinary approach - with perspectives from sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, and environmental studies - gives students a broad introduction to an emerging field of study.
• Original articles by leading Canadian academics from various disciplinary backgrounds showcase the diversity and extent of food studies research.
• Canadian and international coverage outlines the complex relationships, processes, and arrangements that affect - and are affected by - food systems on local, regional, and global levels.
• Extensive pedagogical tools - including learning objectives, discussion questions, annotated further readings, and a glossary of key terms - encourage students to critically engage with and synthesize the material in each chapter.

New to this Edition

• Eight new chapters--on food sovereignty for Indigenous Peoples within Canada (Ch. 4), food literacy (Ch. 5), experiences of racialized migrant farmworkers (Ch. 6), Indigenous and intersectional feminism in food perspectives (Ch. 7), COVID-19 and the 2007-08 global food crisis (Ch. 18), food policy councils (Ch. 21), food wastage (Ch. 22), and issues in developing the national school food program (Ch. 23)--give students a glimpse into current topics in the field.
• New coverage of the COVID-19 crisis offers discussion of the increased interest in foraging, the impact of COVID-19 on meatpacking plants and distribution centres, and the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2007-08 food crisis.
• Updated research and statistics relate key discussions and theories to current, real-life situations.