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SOCJ 5116

Gender, Health & Food Justice

0.5 credits · Graduate

2025–2026

Topics

  • § Examine feminist intersectional food studies & food justice theories
  • § Identify food systems (e.g. corporate food regimes
  • alternative, organic and /or local)
  • § Explore governmentality and biopolitics in relation to food, health and bodies
  • § Explore nutritionism and healthism as these relate to food
  • § Develop written and oral communication skills
  • § Learn university-level research and analysis skills

Readings

  • Winson, A. (eds.), Critical Perspectives in Food Studies, 3rd Edition, Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press. On D2L
  • 1) Film: 2019. "Hungry to Learn" by Arce, R., & O'Brien, S. (Producers), & Gandbhir, G. (Director).
  • 2) Film: 2016. "Migrant Dreams" by Min Sook Lee (Director).
  • 3) Film: 2016. “Angry Inuk” by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (Director).
  • 1) Morrison, D. 2020. Reflections and Realities: Expressions of Food Sovereignty in the Fourth World (17-38), in Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases and Conversations edited by Priscilla Settee and Shilesh Shukla, Toronto: Women's Press. On D2L
  • Listen: Wai? Body Sovereignty with Ashlea Gillon, on Podcast by Indigenous Words and Ideas (31:23)
  • https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v13i1.746 ↗
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  • https://youtu.be/J6FzSfNfzgU?si=gNIg9ZYYfGAzjXxP ↗
    Source-linked resource
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