Food Studies

In Meals Matter, Michael Symons returns economics to its roots in the distribution of food and the labor required.

Food and Public Health offers a contextualized, accessible introduction to understanding the foundations (and contradictions) at the intersection of these two topics.

Framed through a focus on Black agency, the essays here showcase Black communities fighting for the survival of their food culture. The book takes listeners into the real world of Black sustenance, examining animal husbandry practices in South Carolina, the work done by the Black Panthers to ensure food equality, and Black women who are pioneering urban agriculture.

By building on the work of feminist food scholars, this volume not only expands feminist food studies as an important field of study in its own right, but it also calls on food studies scholars to tend to the ways that intersections of oppression and privilege impact their research and scholarship.

What does it take to run the American supermarket? How do products get to shelves? Who sets the price? And who suffers the consequences of increased convenience end efficiency?

In particular, the chapters of this book highlight (a) the salient features of Indigenous food systems, (b) some of the barriers and challenges to Indigenous food systems, and (c) the potential solutions to address these barriers and reclaim cultural identity and resurgence, thereby achieving food security and food sovereignty.