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Call for papers - Sociology of Food and Eating

Call for papers - Sociology of Food and Eating

Journal of Sociology: A special issue on Sociology of Food and Eating, to be published December 2010

Guest Editors: Paul Ward, John Coveney and Julie Henderson Discipline of Public Health, Flinders University, SA.

Key contemporary sociological issues in the Special Issue may relate, but are not restricted, to governmentality (and critiques of neoliberalism), identity, consumerism, theories of trust and risk, gender, reflexive modernisation, and social systems theory.

Papers are being sought in the following areas:
• Food choice and identity
• Food 'choice' for Indigenous Australians
• Trust in the food supply and dietary information
• Consumerism and morality within high modernity
• Healthism and food consumption
• Governance of food and eating

Deadline for abstracts: 2 November 2009
Email to: Trish.Clark@flinders.edu.au

Deadline for submission of full papers (7,000 words max): 15th February 2010

Enquiries: Paul.Ward@flinders.edu.au
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