Soc808 notes

CHAPTER 1 THE INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD OF FOOD STUDIES

 CAFS CANADIAN ASSOSIATION FOR FOOD STUDIES
 Major objectives; food policy, production, distribution and consumption
Mapping the critical food landscape
Political economy:

 Focuses primarily on class inequality, political-economic analyses how relations of

production destroy rural livelihoods creates poverty and hunger and contributes to ill
health and obesity
 Sustanibility globally compremized because of free trade
 Cost price squeeze shrinking number of farmers
 Rural depeasntization- the movment of people from rural to urban areas has
impactedthay way food is produced in global south
 Temporary migrant farm workers
 Structural adjustment programs have shifted agrigulture production to poor developing
contries
 Agrofuels and land grabbing play a role

Social and cultural prospectives:

 Critical race theory illuminates the way in which power relations are negotiated through
food
 Fat studies
 Food justice
 Eatertainment indicates the way in which food and entertainment experience have
become conflated
 Food desserts :areas in which residents have limited access to healthy food

Environmental approach

 Organic agriculture
 Biodynamic agriculture
 Permaculture
 Most destructive part of food system is animal protein
 Alternative food networks- small food systems that directly oppose the conventional
industrial global food system

Health approach