Taking Food Public Redefining Foodays in a Changing World [Paperback]

The field of food studies has been growing rapidly over the last thirty years and has exploded since the turn of the millennium. Scholars from an array of disciplines have trained fresh theoretical and methodological approaches onto new dimensions of the human relationship to food. This anthology capitalizes on this particular cultural moment to bring to the fore recent scholarship that focuses on innovative ways people are recasting food in public spaces to challenge hegemonic practices and meanings. Organized into five interrelated sections on food production  consumption, performance, Diasporas, and activism   articles aim to provide new perspectives on the changing meanings and uses of food in the twenty-first century.

1. 1. Introduction: Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a
2. Changing World, Psyche Williams-Forson and Carole
3. Counihan

Rethinking Production

2. Food Industrialization and Food Power: Implications for Food

Governance, Tim Lang

3. Women and Food Chains: The Gendered Politics of Food,

Patricia Allen and Carolyn Sachs

4. Can We Sustain Sustainable Agriculture? Learning from

Small-scale Producer-suppliers in Canada and the UK

5. Things Became Scarce: Food Availability and Accessibility in

Santiago de Cuba Then and Now, Hanna Garth

6. Capitalism and its Discontents: Back-to-the-Lander and

Freegan Foodways in Rural Organ, Joan Gross

7. Cultural Geographies in Practice: The South Central Farm:

Dilemmas in Practicing the Public, Laura Lawson

8. Charlas Cullinarias: Women Speaking from Their Public

Kitchens, Meredith E. Abarca