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Week of August 31st

• Beardsworth Alan & Teresa Keil. “Sociological Perspectives on Food and Eating” from Sociology on the Menu: An Invitation to the Study of Food and Society. (p. 47-70) New York: Routledge, 1997.
• Atkins, Peter & Ian Bowler “A Background to Food Studies” from Food in Society: Economy, Culture, Geography. (p. 3-17) New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Belasco, Warren. “Food Matters: Perspectives on an Emerging Field” from Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton (eds.) Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (p. 2-23) New York: Routledge, 2002.

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Week of September 14th

• Shiva, Vandana. “The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply” from Stolen Harvest (p. 5-20) Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000.
• Friedman, Harriet. “Remaking ‘Traditions’” from Barndt, Deborah (ed.) Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain (p. 36-60) Toronto: Second Story Press, 1999.
• Nestle, Marion “Influencing Government: Food Lobbies and Lobbyists” from Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (p. 95-110) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

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Week of September 21st

• Lindner, Lawrence. “Fat of the Land” Eating Well, Summer 2002:15-21.
• Solkoff, Joel “Farmers Don’t Live Here Anymore” from The Politics of Food (p. 7-17) San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985.
• Floegel, Mark. “From Elsie to the Corporate Cow” Eating Well, Fall 2002: 36-37; 75; 77.
• Greider, William. “The Last Farm Crisis” The Nation, November 20, 2000, Vol. 271(16):11.
• Egan, Timothy. “The Seeds of Decline” New York Times, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2002, Section 4:1,3.

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Week of September 28th

• Weiss, Rick “Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming” The Washington Post, April 30, 2008:A02
• Kimbrell, Andrew. “Fatal Harvest Myth 3: Killing Fields” The Ecologist, November 2002:22-24.
• Jones, Dena. “Crimes Unseen” Orion. July/August 2004, Vol. 23(4): 60-67.  
• Smith, Jeremy. “Against the Grain” The Ecologist. November 2003, Vol. 33(9):48-49.

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Week of October 5th

• Bové, José and François Dufour. “Farming Against Nature” from The World is Not for Sale: Farmers Against Junk Food (p. 78-103) London: Verso, 2000.
• Vines, Gail. “Guess What’s Coming to Dinner?” New Scientist, November 14, 1992, Vol. 136(1847):13.
• Schapiro, Mark. “Sowing Disaster?” The Nation, October 28, 2002:11-19.
• Branford, Sue. “Seeds of Change” The Ecologist, April 22, 2001.
• Gorelick, Steven. “Solutions to a Farming Future” The Ecologist, May 22, 2000.

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Week of October 12th

• Deutsch, Tracey “Untangling Alliances: Social Tensions Surrounding Independent Grocery Stores and the Rise of Mass Retailing” from Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton (eds.) Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (p. 156-174) New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Bentley, Amy “Inventing Baby Food: Gerber and the Discourse of Infancy in the United States” from Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton (eds.) Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (p. 92-112) New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Pilcher, Jeffrey M. “Industrial Tortillas and Folkloric Pepsi: The Nutritional Consequences of Hybrid Cuisines in Mexico” from Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton (eds.) Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (p. 222-239) New York: Routledge, 2002.

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Week of October 19th

• Barndt, Deborah. “You Can Count on Us: Scanning Cashiers at Loblaws Supermarkets” from Barndt, Deborah. 2002. Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Beoku-Betts, Josephine A. “We Got Our Way of Cooking Things” Gender and Society, October 1995, Vol. 9(5):535-555.
• Neuhaus, Jessamyn. “The Way to a Man’s Heart” Journal of Social History, Spring 1999, Vol. 32(3):529.
• Eyerman, Ann. “Serving Up Service: Fast-food and Office Women Workers Doing It with a Smile” from Barndt, Deborah (ed.) Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain (p. 162-174) Toronto: Second Story Press, 1999.

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Week of October 26th

• McMichael, Philip. “Global Food Politics” Monthly Review, July-August 1998, Vol. 50(3):97.
• Smith, Jeremy. “The Truth About the Banana Trade” The Ecologist, March 22, 2002.
• Enloe, Cynthia. “Carmen Miranda on My Mind: International Politics of the Banana” from Bananas, Beaches, and Bases (p. 124-150) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
• Shiva, Vandana. “World in a Grain of Rice” The Ecologist, November 22, 2000.
• Barry, Tom “International Connections” from Roots of Rebellion: Land and Hunger in Central America (p. 67-90) Boston: South End Press, 1987.
• Backwell, Ben. “Grow Your Own Democracy” The Ecologist, October 22, 2002.

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Week of November 2nd

• Nelson, Jack A. “United States Military Power and the Third World.” from Hunger for Justice: The Politics of Food and Faith (p. 56-74) Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1980.
• Solkoff, Joel “Creating a Food Shortage” from The Politics of Food (p. 40-45) San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985.
• Barry, Tom “The Justice of Eating” from Roots of Rebellion: Land and Hunger in Central America (p. 1-19) Boston: South End Press, 1987.
• Annear, Christopher M. “GM or Death: Food and Choice in Zambia.” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. Spring 2004, Vol. 4(2): 16-23.
• McKibben, Bill. “Helping Hand or Big Fat Fist?” Orion. July/August 2004, Vol. 23(4): 14-15.
• Kaufman, Leslie. “Are the Poor Suffering from Hunger Anymore?” New York Times, February 23, 2003: 4.

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Week of November 9th

• hooks, bell. “Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance” from Black Looks: Race and Representation (p. 21-39) Boston: South End Press, 1992.
• Ferrero, Sylvia “Comida Sin Par. Consumption of Mexican Food in Los Angeles: ‘Foodscapes’ in a Transnational Consumer Society” from Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton (eds.) Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (p. 194-219) New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Witt, Doris “‘Look Ma, the Real Aunt Jemima!’ Consuming Identities under Capitalism” from Black Hunger: Food & the Politics of U. S. Identity (p. 21-53) New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Sims, Laura “Reinventing School Lunch: Attempts to Transform a Food Policy into a Nutrition Policy” from The Politics of Fat (p. 67-92) Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
• Yeoman, Barry. “Unhappy Meals” Mother Jones, January/February 2003:40-45;81.
• Nestle, Marion “Pushing Soft Drinks: ‘Pouring Rights’” from Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (p. 197-218) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

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Week of November 16th

• Wilk, Richard R. “Food and Nationalism: The Origins of ‘Belizean Food’” from Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton (eds.) Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (p. 67-89) New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Gabaccia, Donna R. “As American as Budweiser and Pickles? Nation-Building in American Food Industries” from Warren Belasco and Philip Scranton (eds.) Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies (p. 175-193) New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Lockie, Stewart. “Food, Place and Identity: Consuming Australia’s ‘Beef Capital’” Journal of Sociology, September 2001, Vol. 37(3):239.
• Norberg-Hodge, Helena, Todd Merrifield, and Steven Gorelick. “Food and Community” from Bringing the Food Economy Home (p. 78-87) Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2002.
• Warner, Mark. “Ham Hocks in Your Cornflakes” from Year of Discovery (p. 202-206) New York: Hatherleigh Press, 2002.

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Week of November 23rd

• Adams, Carol J. “The Sexual Politics of Meat” from The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist Vegetarian Critical Theory (p. 25-38) New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1994.
• Mitchell, Stacy. “Setting a Slow Table” The New Rules Journal, Fall 2000:18.
• Kampfner, John. “The Great Avocado Debate” New Statesman, May 27, 2002, Vol. 131(4589):14.
• Duncan, Kate. “Who’s Paying for Your Fix?” Clamor, May/June 2003, Issue 20: 10-11.

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Week of November 30th

• Shiva, Vandana. “Reclaiming Food Democracy” from Stolen Harvest (p. 117-123) Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2000.
• Villagomez, Maria Dolores. “Grassroots Responses to Globalization: Mexican Rural and Urban Women’s Collective Alternatives” from Barndt, Deborah (ed.) Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain (p. 210-219) Toronto: Second Story Press, 1999.
• Funes, Fernando. “The Organic Farming Movement in Cuba” from Funes, Fernando; Luis García; Martin Bourque; Nilda Pérez; & Peter Rosset (eds.) Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba (p. 1-26) Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 2002.
• “Facing Up to our Food.” Sustainability Communicator, July, 2004, Vol. 7(3): 1-2.

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Week of December 7th

• To Be Announced

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