Food & Society

Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian ag...

Beer culture has grown exponentially in the United States, from the days of Prohibition to the signing of HR 1337 by then-President Jimmy Carter, w...

Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how concentrated has this ...

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists', Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of ...

Grocery shopping is an often ignored part of the story of how food ultimately gets to our pantry shelves and tables. A Theory of Grocery Shopping...

An in-depth investigation of the complex relationships among food, culture, and society, Communicating Food in Korea features contributors from a v...

Food for the Future: Stories from the Alternative Agro-food Movement is about different foods, the stories they contain, and most of all the people...

Millions of animals are brought into existence and raised for food every year. This has generated three serious problems: first, intensive animal f...

Millions of animals are brought into existence and raised for food every year. This has generated three serious problems: first, intensive animal f...

In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back land-to-the-tiller policies created in the wake of Cold Warera revolutions...

In Southeast Asia reversals of earlier agrarian reforms have rolled back land-to-the-tiller policies created in the wake of Cold Warera revolutions...

Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad--a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our pla...

Illuminates the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat wh...

Food bankswarehouses that collect and systematize surplus foodhave expanded into one of the largest mechanisms to redistribute food waste. From the...

This book is not a taste, nor an anti-taste, manual.This is an interrogation of the importance we place on seemingly objective ideas of taste in a ...

Are children who attend schools near fast food restaurants more likely to be obese than those who live far from them? Obesity research has recently...

In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this illuminating history of Russian food in the modern...

This refreshing work offers a distinctly agrarian reframing of spiritual practices to address todays most pressing social and ecological concerns. ...

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century illuminates the transnational agrarian movements that are remaking rural society and the world's food ...

Hog Wash chronicles the efforts of a group of international environmentalists, investors, and researchers as they attempt to find an ecologically f...

This volume is the first of its kind to focus entirely on food in the context of pilgrimage and faith-based tourism. It presents key studies that a...

Long-held associations between women, home, food, and cooking are beginning to unravel as, in a growing number of households, men are taking on foo...

Drawing together the latest research and a range of case studies, Henry Buller and Emma Roe guide readers on a fascinating journey through animal w...

Food Words is a series of provocative essays on some of the most important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing on current cont...

Bringing together original contributions by Canadian scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds, Critical Perspectives in Food Studies introduc...

Our diets are going to change dramatically as global warming affects growing seasons and the availability of different foods around the world. Mean...