The politics of eating: Food practices as critically reflexive leisure

Leisure/ Loisir

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 379-405

  Mair, Heather ^a   Sumner, Jennifer ^b   Rotteau, Leahora ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critically reflexive leisure; Food justice; Food not Bombs; Organic farming; Popular leisure; Slow Food

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998177372     PISSN: 14927713     EISSN: 21512221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2008.9651415     Document Type: Article

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