(with Jennifer Sumner and Mustafa Koc, Oxford University Press, 3rd Edition 2021). This completely revised third edition of our well received textbook brings together original contributions by many of the leading Canadian scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds writing on food issues. Special Features: Interdisciplinary approach – with perspectives from sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, and […]
Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy (with Belinda Leach, University of Toronto Press, 2003). Winner of the John Porter Prize for 2003, awarded by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. The authors argue that the new rural […]
Food and the Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex in Canada (Garamond, 1993). The Intimate Commodity was the first comprehensive study to flesh out Canada’s modern agro-industrial complex and to place its development in its historical context. The book examines the struggles of the early agrarian movements for political power, their achievements and failures, and the definitive […]
(Macmillan and Between the Lines, 1989). This books brings together an historical analysis of Costa Rica’s coffee economy and a conjunctural analysis of Costa Rica’s post-War political developments to understand how a liberal democratic politics emerged in a region dominated by military dictatorships. Reviews… Latin American Studies Association Purchase from Amazon
The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating (UBC Press, 2013) The Industrial Diet chronicles the long-term transformation of food from essential nutrients into edible commodities that far too often fail to nourish us. This book reveals how a combination of technological changes, population growth, and political and economic factors helped constitute and transform […]