Introduction: The Significance of Food and Food Studies, Mustafa Koç, Jennifer Sumner, and Anthony Winson
Part I: The Changing Meanings of Food and Food Studies
1. The Interdisciplinary Field of Food Studies, Mustafa Koç, Margaret Bancerz, and Kelsey Speakman
2. Changing Food
Systems from Top to Bottom: Political Economy and Social Movements Perspectives, Harriet Friedmann
3. You Are What You Eat: Enjoying (and Transforming) Food Culture, Josée Johnston and Sarah Cappeliez
4. Canada's Food History Through Cookbooks, Nathalie Cooke
5. Constructing "Healthy
Eating"/Constructing Self, Brenda L. Beagan and Gwen E. Chapman
Part II: Analytical Perspectives in Food Studies
6. Still Hungry for a Feminist Food Studies, Jennifer Brady, Elaine Power, Michelle Szabo, and Jacqui Gingras
7. Critical Dietetics: Challenging the Profession from
Within (NEW), Jacqui Gingras, Yuka Asada, Jennifer Brady, and Lucy Aphramor
8. Two Great Food Revolutions: The Domestication of Nature and the Transgression of Nature's Limits, Robert Albritton
9. A Political Ecology Approach to Industrial Food Production, Tony Weis
Part III: Crises
and Challenges in the Food System
10. Crisis in the Food System: The Farm Crisis, Nettie Wiebe
11. The Welfare of Farm Animals on Intensive Livestock Operations (ILOs) in Canada (NEW), Shannon Kornelsen
12. The Food System in the Fisheries: Crisis and Alternatives, Aparna
Sundar
13. Spatial Colonization of Food Environments by Pseudo Food Companies: Precursors of a Health Crisis, Anthony Winson
14. What Constitutes Good Food? Towards a Critical Indigenous Perspective on Food and Health, Debbie Martin and Margaret Amos
15. Origins and Consequences of and
Responses to Food Insecurity in Canada (NEW), Naomi Dachner and Valerie Tarasuk
Part IV: Challenging Food Governance
16. Making Wise Food Choices: Food Labelling, Advertising, and the Challenge of Informed Eating, Irena Knezevic
17. Questioning the Assumptions of Genetically
Modified Crops in Canada (NEW), E. Ann Clark
18. Global Food Security Governance: Key Actors, Issues, and Dynamics (NEW), Matias E. Margulis and Jessica Duncan
19. Municipal Governance and Urban Food Systems, Wendy Mendes
Part V: Food for the Future
20. Food Policy for the
21st Century, Rod MacRae
21. Conceptualizing Sustainable Food Systems,
ennifer Sumner
22. Actualizing Sustainable Food Systems (NEW), Ashley McInnes and Phil Mount
23. Alternative Food Initiatives, Food Movements, and Collaborative Networks: A Pan-Canadian Perspective (NEW), Charles Z.
Levkoe
24. Building Food Sovereignty: A Radical Framework for Socially Just and Ecologically Sustainable Food Systems, Annette Aurélie Desmarais
Conclusion
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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.
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