Bringing together original contributions by Canadian scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds, Critical Perspectives in Food Studies, Third Edition introduces students to the shifting interpretations, perspectives, challenges, governance issues, and future visions that shape the study of food and food issues in Canada and around the world.

NOTE: Each chapter also includes: - Learning objectives - Key terms, bolded at first use - Discussion questions - References Preface Acknowledgements Part 1: Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Field 1: Finding Food Studies: A Map of the Field Kelsey Speakman, Margaret Bancerz and Mustafa Koç 2: You Are What You Eat: Enjoying (and Transforming) Food Culture Josée Johnston and Sarah Cappeliez 3: Constructing 'Healthy Eating' / Constructing Self Brenda L. Beagan, Gwen E. Chapman and Andrea Kirkham 4: Evolving Understandings of Traditional Foods: Integrating Individual Knowledge and Community Practice NEW Hannah Tait Neufeld 5: Critical Food Literacy NEW Jennifer Sumner and Ellen Desjardins Part II: Analytical Perspectives in Food Studies 6: Food and the Intersectionality of the Immigrant Experience in Settler Colonial Canada pruneah Michelle Kim, Janika Oza and Mustafa Koç 7: Pestiewink/Wihokewin: Invitation to Indigenous and Intersectional Feminist Food Studies NEW Sherry Pictou, Tabitha Robin, Barbara Parker, Jennifer Brady 8: Two Great Food Revolutions: The Domestication of Nature and the Transgression of Nature's Limits NEW Robert Albritton 9: A Political Ecology Approach to Industrial Food Production Tony Weis 10: Supermarkets, High Schools and Pseudo Foods: The Role of Obesogenic Food Environments in Promoting a Canadian Health Crisis Anthony Winson Part III: Crises and Challenges in the Food System 11: The Farm Crisis Nettie Wiebe 12: The Welfare of Farm Animals on Intensive Livestock Operations (ILOs) in Canada Shannon Kornelsen 13: The Food System in the Fisheries: Addressing the Crisis Aparna Sundar 14: Food Insecurity: A Problem of Public Policy Valerie Tarasuk 15: What constitutes good food? Understanding Indigenous food security, food sovereignty and health and well-being Debbie Martin and Megan Matthews Part IV: Challenging Food Governance 16: The Challenge of Informed Eating: Food Labelling, Advertising and the Cacophony of Digital Nutrition Advice Irena Knezevic 17: Questioning the Assumptions of Genetically Modified Crops in Canada E. Ann Clark 18: How the Legacies of the Last Global Food Crisis Sowed the Seeds for the Next One NEW Jennifer Clapp, Andrea Collins and Phoebe Stephens 19: The Social Costs of Cheap Local Food: Migrant Workers in Canadian Agriculture Tanya Basok 20: Food Policy for Health, Justice and Sustainability Rod MacRae Part V: Food for the Future 21: Urban Food Systems and the Importance of Food Policy Councils: The Toronto Perspective NEW Laine Young, Lauren Baker and Lori Stahlbrand 22: A Systemic Perspective on Food Wastage and Wasted Food NEW Kate Parizeau and Mike von Massow 23: Meeting the Recommendations Outlined in Canada's New Food Guide Through a National School Food Program NEW Rachel Engler-Stringer, Ian Mosby and Sara Kirk 24: Alternative Food Initiatives, Food Movements and Collective Networks: A Pan-Canadian Perspective Charles Z. Levkoe 25: Building Food Sovereignty: A Radical Framework for Alternative Food Systems Annette Aurélie Desmarais Glossary Index

"This is the food studies textbook you were looking for! [Critical Perspectives in Food Studies] provides an excellent interdisciplinary introduction to the political economy of food and agriculture (as well as fisheries and livestock), changing ideas about healthy eating, questions about food in relation to social location, identity and power, and includes plenty of Canadian examples." --Elizabeth Fitting, Dalhousie University "[Critical Perspectives in Food Studies] presents useful theory, application, and statistics.... It's clear that the editors of this volume are knowledgeable and passionate about the subject area. This is one of the most thorough, contemporary critical food studies texts I've seen." --Alissa Overend, MacEwan University

Mustafa Koç is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. Jennifer Sumner is the Coordinator of the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Anthony Winson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.

Interdisciplinary approach - with perspectives from sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, and environmental studies - gives students a broad introduction to an emerging field of study. Original articles by leading Canadian academics from various disciplinary backgrounds showcase the diversity and extent of food studies research. Canadian and international coverage outlines the complex relationships, processes, and arrangements that affect - and are affected by - food systems on local, regional, and global levels. Extensive pedagogical tools - including learning objectives, discussion questions, annotated further readings, and a glossary of key terms - encourage students to critically engage with and synthesize the material in each chapter.