SOC 808 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Opportunity Cost, Omnivore, Food Studies
23 Oct 2016
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Food studies represent a new interdisciplinary (relating to more than once branch of knowledge) approach in the social sciences and humanities, forming linkages and interconnections between food-related topics. Study of food from a social sciences and humanities perspective. Canadian association for food studies (cafs) has been the leading national organization aiming to advance interdisciplinary scholarship and research in food studies. Post-colonial approaches in food studies look at the historical and politico-economic structures of countries that have experienced colonialism or imperialism. A growing critical idea in food studies bridging political economy and governance has been food sovereignty, an alternative mode of food governance. Food sovereignty crates policies and governance structures based on local and democratic decision-making power. Ngos and social movements like la via campesina. Critical race theory illuminates the ways in which power relations are negotiated through f ood experiences.
