A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat by Eric Holt-Giménez

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Contributeur(s): Jennifer Sumner | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.329

Book Review.

A Review of Facing Catastrophe? Food Politics and the Ecological Crisis By Carl Boggs

2025-03-19 22:13:15 | Contributeur(s): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.552

In his most recent work, Facing Catastrophe, Boggs takes aim at the environmental movement and calls for radical reform. The author argues that political change matching the extent of the ecological problems we face is urgently needed, and that “there can be no routine, painless ‘greening’ of...

A world without soil: The past, present, and precarious future of the earth beneath our feet

2025-03-19 22:12:59 | Contributeur(s): Richard S. Bloomfield | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v10i2.644

Jo Handelsman’s text A world without soil: The past, present, and precarious future of the earth beneath our feet outlines the threats to global soil health from a scientific perspective and provides an empirical foundation for many in the social sciences or humanities who advocate for more...

Alternative agrifood movements: Patterns of convergence and divergence by Douglas, H. Constance, Marie-Christine Renard, and Marta G. Rivera-Ferre (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributeur(s): Theresa Schumilas | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i1.64

The introduction to this volume offers a concise overview of the history and state of AAFN scholarship, making it a great early read for newcomers to the field. Drawing together experiences of global South food justice movements and global North alternative food movements is welcomed and a...

Alternative Food Networks in Quebec

2025-03-19 22:03:44 | Contributeur(s): Manon Boulianne, Patrick Mundler | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.217

This commentary reflects on a two-day conference, Réseaux alimentaires alternatifs au Québec. Perspectives comparatives, held in Montreal on May 12 & 13, 2016, during the 84th Congress of ACFAS (Association canadienne-française pour l’avancement des sciences). The event was organized by...

Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future by Gavin Fridell

2025-03-19 22:03:58 | Contributeur(s): Geoff Tansey | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.48

A long, long time ago, in a world where ‘free trade’ market fundamentalism was not the only economic religion, I helped start a journal called Food Policy—economics, planning and politics of food and agriculture. Well, actually, not that long ago, in the mid 1970s. It just seems a world away....

Book Review of Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contributeur(s): Ryan J. Phillips | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.417

As part of Routledge’s ‘Studies in Food, Society, and the Environment’ series, Kenavy’s recent edited volume provides a timely look at plant-based eating, in both research and practice. Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability (2020) includes fourteen chapters divided into four...

Book Review: Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance, Peter Andrée, Jill K. Clark, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristen Lowitt, Eds. London and New York: Routledge.

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contributeur(s): Mindy Jewell Price | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.434

Book review of Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance, Peter Andrée, Jill K. Clark, Charles Z. Levkoe, and Kristen Lowitt, Eds. London and New York: Routledge. It is easy to be discouraged by the ecological damages and social inequities caused by the contemporary...

Book Review: Finance or Food? The role of cultures, values, and ethics in land use negotiations

2025-03-19 22:03:23 | Contributeur(s): Amanda Shankland | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i2.451

Book Review of Finance or Food? The role of cultures, values, and ethics in land use negotiations, Hilde Bjorkhaug, Philip McMichael, and Bruce Muirhead. We have today a highly capitalized and complex agricultural system that contorts the global food system into a collection of financialized...

Can we eat our way to a healthy and ecologically sustainable food system?

2025-03-19 22:03:36 | Contributeur(s): Barbara Seed, Cecilia Rocha | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i3.258

The food system is a major contributor to climate change, biodiversity loss, eutrophication and deforestation. This article examines national dietary guidelines as a way to shift dietary patterns in the population toward diets that continue to promote health while being more ecologically...

Catherine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant's Guide: Cooking with a Canadian Classic by Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:43 | Contributeur(s): Anita Stewart | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.261

Based on broadly annotated recipes published in 1855, this historical treasure trove of food sourcing and cooking has been reworked for modern readers by editors Nathalie Cooke and Fiona Lucas. These authors have been deeply immersed in Canadian culinary history for most of their careers,...

Changing the food game: Market transformation strategies for sustainable agriculture by Lucas Simons

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contributeur(s): Adam Sneyd | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.139

Experts in the area of new agricultural standards, codes, and certifications tend to hold strong perspectives on the reforms that they believe will transform unsustainable conventional farming practices. However, these important practitioner points of view infrequently make a big splash in...

Cities and Agriculture: Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems by Henk de Zeeuw and Pay Drechsel (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:45 | Contributeur(s): Zhenzhong Si, Jennifer Marshman, Simon Berge, Ning Dai, Tammara Soma, Bryan Dale, Karen Landman, John Bacher, Mashiur Rahman, Charles Z. Levkoe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.177

In an age when we are inundated with information, efforts that streamline that information—by sifting kernels of wheat from the chaff—are precious. Our reviews are intended to assist CFS readers faced with a growing body of material relevant to food studies. However, the standard book review...

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life

2025-03-19 22:03:59 | Contributeur(s): Bradley C Hiebert | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i2.51

At a time when Indigenous hunger and strife is gaining public attention in Canada, James Daschuk’s book Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life provides a necessary glimpse into the issue’s deep-seated roots. Now a professor at University of Regina...

Community Review: A little regulatory pluralism with your counter-hegemonic advocacy? Blending analytical frames to construct joined-up food policy in Canada

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contributeur(s): Rod MacRae, Mark Winfield | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.60

Canadian food policy is deficient in many ways. First, there is neither national joined-up food policy, nor much supporting food policy architecture at the provincial and municipal levels. Second, there is no roadmap for creating such policy changes. And third, we don’t have an analytical...

Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat? by Philip H. Howard

2025-03-19 22:03:32 | Contributeur(s): Chloé Poitevin-DesRivières | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i2.209

book review

Conversations in Food Studies by Colin R. Anderson, Jennifer Brady, and Charles Z. Levkoe (Eds.)

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Contributeur(s): Wayne Roberts | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.244

This inspiring collection of essays by mostly young and freshly minted scholars takes me back 50 years, to my own misspent youth during the 1960s and ’70s, when I was part of a social history gang eager to “rewrite history from the bottom up.” We wanted to ask new questions and use new...

Distasteful: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry - Showcasing the Dark Side of Food Service

2025-03-19 22:12:54 | Contributeur(s): Stefanie Foster | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.675

A review of Annika Lusis's contemporary art piece, Distasteful: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry , presented as part of the Exploration Gallery at the 2023 Canadian Association of Food Studies (CAFS) Conference. 

Une critique de l’œuvre d’art contemporain d’Annika Lusis,...

En’owkin Centre Breastfeeding Art Expo

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Contributeur(s): Karen Graham, Rhonda Camille, Tracey Kim Bonneau | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i2.289

A unique Indigenous-focused Art Expo on the topic of breastfeeding was held at En’owkin Centre at Penticton Indian Band in October and November 2017. The En’owkin Centre is a nationally recognized Indigenous arts and training centre. This review highlights some of the art from the En’owkin...

Event Review of BPLTC III: Food Control

2025-03-19 22:03:48 | Contributeur(s): Pamela Honor Tudge | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.154

In Eastern Bloc’s recent exhibition BPLTC 111: Food Control new media artists use digital technologies as both a form of aesthetic presentation and a kind of mimicry to critique the technologically driven industrial food system. This exhibition was the last of a three-part exhibition on...