RAWLs midterm

2024-10-30 21:09:24 | Autor(es): Ava Strang | https://doi.org/10.25547/0TVS-3339

midterm for sjs (testing)

Reflecting on a decade of Canadian food studies

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | Autor(es): Rachel Engler-Stringer, Laurence Godin, Charles Z. Levkoe, Alexia Moyer, David Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.702

In this editorial, the Management Team of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation (CFS/RCÉA) looks back across the history of the journal and towards its future. They collectively reflect on the journal’s ethos, its range of publications, and what the future...

Reflecting on food pedagogies in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Autor(es): Michael Classens, Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.572

The original deadline for submissions for this special issue was March 1, 2020, just days before the destabilizing and disorienting first wave of pandemic-related shutdowns in many parts of Canada. The (r)evolution in food systems pedagogy we were hoping to document and celebrate was promptly...

Reformist, progressive, radical: The case for an inclusive alliance

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | Autor(es): Janet Elizabeth Poppendieck | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.534

Scholars of food regimes and food movements have argued that the capacity of the contemporary food movement to achieve significant change is dependent upon the nature of the alliances formed by the progressive, food justice component of the broader array of food change organizations. They have...

Reframing food as a commons in Canada: Learning from customary and contemporary Indigenous food initiatives that reflect a normative shift

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Autor(es): Jodi Koberinski, Jose Luis Vivero-Pol, Joseph LeBlanc | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.504

This paper interrogates the role of the dominant narrative of “food-as-commodity” in framing food systems policy in Canada. Human values shape policies, usually privileging those policies that are aligned with dominant values and neglecting others that confront dominant values. In that sense,...

Religious food guidance

2025-03-19 22:13:11 | Autor(es): Michel Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.514

This article reviews some of the ways in which food intersects with religion and argues that people’s religious food habits prepare them to critically engage the food they eat. Religious food guidance is presented through five categories: permanent food restrictions, temporary food...

Rotten asparagus and just-in-time workers: Canadian agricultural industry framing of farm labour and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | Autor(es): Anelyse Margaret Weiler, Evelyn Encalada Grez | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.521

In early stages of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian farming industry expressed panic that travel restrictions could disrupt the arrival of migrant farmworkers from the Majority World. In this Perspective essay, we consider how farm industry lobbying successfully framed delays to...

Sharing the struggle for fairness: Exploring possibilities for solidarity & just labour in organic agriculture

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Autor(es): Susanna Klassen, Fuerza Migrante, Hannah Wittman | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.536

Despite the organic movement’s early connections to labour advocacy and commitment to the principle of “Fairness”, the evolution of the organic sector has generated questions about the strength of its links to food justice in certified organic farming. Scholar-activists have, in particular,...

Special issue on building an integrated Food Policy for Canada: An open letter to the Canadian food policy community

2025-03-19 22:03:34 | Autor(es): Peter Andrée, Charles Z. Levkoe, Amanda Wilson | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.335

This editorial introduces the special issue of Canadian Food Studies, “Building an integrated Food Policy for Canada”. In a letter to the food policy community, the guest editors assert that the federal government’s development of a Food Policy for Canada will be just the beginning. Many...

Special issue on Indigenous Food

2025-03-19 22:03:38 | Autor(es): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.324

In the spring of 2016, I had a conversation with Dr. Kelly Skinner at the University of Waterloo that led to the mutual decision that we work towards a special issue of Canadian Food Studies on Indigenous Food. She was well connected with Canadian researchers, writers, activists, and artists...

Striving toward a peasant identity: The influence of the global peasant movement on three women farmers in Canada

2025-03-19 22:13:08 | Autor(es): Roseann Lydia Kerr, Erin Richan, Coral Sproule, Ayla Fenton | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.535

As diverse actors work through disparate food movements seeking to tackle the causes and effects of the global food crisis, Holt-Giménez and Shattuck (2011) call for strategic alliances between progressive and radical trends in the food movement to transform our current food system. This paper...

The community food centre: Using relational spaces to transform deep stories and shift public will

2025-03-19 22:13:06 | Autor(es): Syma Habib | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.538

COVID-19 has revealed deep inequities in our food system. As goodwill and charity from this crisis disappears, and emergency supports begin to dwindle, we can anticipate increased food insecurity amongst Canadians. Rising food prices and unemployment will drive a lack of access to fresh...

The de-meatification imperative: To what end?

2025-03-19 22:13:13 | Autor(es): Tony Weis, Rebecca A Ellis | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.511

Meatification describes a momentous dietary transformation: the average person on earth today consumes nearly twice as much animal flesh every year as did the average person just two generations ago, amidst a period of rapid human population growth and with marked disparities between rich and...

The evolution of Haudenosaunee food guidance: Building capacity toward the sustainability of local environments in the community of Six Nations of the Grand River

2025-03-19 22:13:12 | Autor(es): Hannah Tait Neufeld, Adrianne Xavier | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.502

The emerging literature on the Indigenous food movement identifies community involvement, family-centred food education and re-establishing a relationship with the land as essential to restoring sustainable food systems, land and water access. These processes of reclamation have similarly...

The imperative to transform global food systems

2025-03-19 22:03:14 | Autor(es): Philip Loring | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.561

Never before, perhaps, has there been greater consensus that our food systems need to be radically reimagined and transformed. However, there is also much contention among those working to advance these transformations over the solutions and futures that ought to be pursued. So, while there is...

The Shakespeare-Hemp-Cannabis (SHC) Hypothesis

2022-12-07 11:25:17 | Autor(es): Francis Thackeray | https://doi.org/10.25547/CYZ7-JR19

Shakespeare, Cannabis

Towards Just Food Futures: Divergent approaches and possibilities for collaboration across difference

2025-03-19 22:13:05 | Autor(es): Marit Rosol, Eric Holt-Giménez, Lauren Kepkiewicz, Elizabeth Vibert | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.598

The call for Just Food Futures reflects a desire to address social inequities, health disparities, and environmental disasters created by overlapping systems of oppression including capitalism, white supremacy, and heteropatriarchy. While many food movement actors share a desire to...

Transformation or the next meal? : Global-local tensions in food justice work

2025-03-19 22:13:09 | Autor(es): Elizabeth Vibert, Bikrum Singh Gill, Matt Murphy, Astrid Pérez Piñán, Claudia Puerta Silva | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.531

This article presents conversations across difference that took place among community partners and researchers at a week-long workshop in T’Sou-ke First Nation territory in 2019. The workshop launched the Four Stories About Food Sovereignty research network and project, which brings together...

Transformations revealed through food studies

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Autor(es): Ellen Desjardins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.197

This issue brings us food-related research and perspectives from across Canada, from Nunavut and the Northwest Territories to central Alberta, Kenora (Ontario), and Nova Scotia. A common thread weaves throughout this work: one of transformative change—either already in progress or still...

Transition, coherence, resilience and joy

2025-03-19 22:12:57 | Autor(es): Canadian Food Studies | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.652

These four nouns are taken out of the article titles on offer in this issue. Uncover within the systemic transitions taking place, the coherence required, the resilience that has emerged, and the joy that may be found in food production, distribution and consumption. With this issue also comes...