SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Food Studies, Farm Crisis, Food Sovereignty
6 Feb 2017
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Chapter 1: the interdisciplinary field of food studies. Chapter 1 the interdisciplinary field of food studies. Food studies represents a new interdisciplinary approach in the social sciences and humanities, forming linkages and interconnections between food-related topics. The rise of cultural studies and postmodernism offered one of the most consistent criticisms of the earlier prevailing structuralism and modernist approaches in social and natural sciences of the twentieth century. Interdisciplinary emerges as one of the main defining characteristics of food studies. Early interdisciplinary food research focused on food for reason related to other research agendas, such as looking at the food industry it demonstrates theoretical perspective on the new international division of labour, or the globalization of the economy. Founded in 2005, the canadian association for food studies has been the leading national organization aiming to advance interdisciplinary scholarship and research in food studies. In social science research being critical involves four components.
