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Health, Sustainability, Food Sovereignty and the Future of Food and Farming: Critical Issues in Food Studies

Health, Sustainability, Food Sovereignty and the Future of Food and Farming: Critical Issues in... review essay / note critique Jennifer Sumner Wenonah Hauter, Foodopoly: The Battle over the Future of Food and Farming in America (New York: The New Press 2012) Rod MacRae and Elisabeth Abergel, eds., Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System: Advocacy and Opportunity for Civil Society (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 2012) Hannah Wittman, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Nettie Wiebe, eds., Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems (Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing 2011) Like labour studies, food studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that operates outside the boundaries of traditional disciplines to investigate specific issues of import in the world today. A recent addition to the interdisciplinary fold, food studies emerged in the 1990s and gained momentum during the last decade with the burgeoning interest in food. Over the years, it has evolved into a "field of research and scholarship that focuses on the web of relations, processes, structures and institutional arrangements that cover human interaction with nature and other humans involving the production, distribution, preparation, consumption and disposal of food."1 Since we all need to eat, food touches us more directly than many other subjects. Food studies makes the most http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Labour / Le Travail The Canadian Committee on Labour History

Health, Sustainability, Food Sovereignty and the Future of Food and Farming: Critical Issues in Food Studies

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Labour / Le Travail , Volume 73 (1) – May 23, 2014
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review essay / note critique Jennifer Sumner Wenonah Hauter, Foodopoly: The Battle over the Future of Food and Farming in America (New York: The New Press 2012) Rod MacRae and Elisabeth Abergel, eds., Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System: Advocacy and Opportunity for Civil Society (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 2012) Hannah Wittman, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Nettie Wiebe, eds., Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems (Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing 2011) Like labour studies, food studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that operates outside the boundaries of traditional disciplines to investigate specific issues of import in the world today. A recent addition to the interdisciplinary fold, food studies emerged in the 1990s and gained momentum during the last decade with the burgeoning interest in food. Over the years, it has evolved into a "field of research and scholarship that focuses on the web of relations, processes, structures and institutional arrangements that cover human interaction with nature and other humans involving the production, distribution, preparation, consumption and disposal of food."1 Since we all need to eat, food touches us more directly than many other subjects. Food studies makes the most

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