The Social Life of Food

The course provides a framework for understanding key concepts and contemporary debates about food, as well as critically evaluating how past, current and future food-related issues are framed and dealt with locally and globally. In particular we ask: what is food and where has it come from? Can we measure food? How does food act on us? Has food anything to do with government? Who can grow food and where? Who do we eat with and who is not at the table? How could food be different? Can food be 'sustained' and is there a politics of food? Credit Level: 10 Year taken: Year 3 Undergraduate