Conversations in Food Studies
Overview
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.
Reviews
“I’d call this book an invitation—the need to come together and collaborate has never been more important—and is only now becoming widely recognized. The book is also about transgressions, about how food blurs boundaries and pushes conventions."
Michael Carolan, Professor, Department of Sociology, Colorado State University
“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.”
Keith Williams, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
About the Authors
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1. Re-presenting Disciplinary Praxis
Ch. 1. Visual Methods for Collaborative Food System Work
Ch. 2. Stirring the Pot: The Performativities of Making Food Texts
Ch. 3. Problematizing Milk: Considering Production Beyond the Food System
Ch. 4. Food Talk: Composing the Agricultural Land Reserve
Part 2. Who, What and How: Governing Food Systems
Ch. 5. Governance Challenges for Local food systems: Emerging Lessons From Agriculture and Fisheries
Ch. 6. The Bottle at the Centre of a Changing Foodscape: “Bring Your Own Wine” in the Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montreal
Ch. 7. Finding Balance: Food Safety, Food Security, and Public Health
Part 3. “Un-doing” Food Studies: A Case for Flexible Fencing
Ch. 8. Evaluating the Cultural Politics of Alternative Food Movements: The Limitations of Cultivating Awareness
Ch. 9. Sustenance: Contested Definitions of the Sustainable Diet
Ch.10. From “Farm to Table” to “Farm to Dump”: Emerging Research on Urban Household Food Waste in the Global South
Ch.11. A Meta-Analysis on the Constitution and Configuration of Alternative Food Networks
Part 4. Scaling Learning in Agri-food Systems
Ch.12. Transitioning Towards Sustainable Food and Farming: Interactions Between Learning and Practice in Community Spaces
Ch.13. Pedagogical Encounters: Critical Food Pedagogy and Transformative Learning in the School and Community
