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Alice Julier

14 March, 2013 / by Anthony Mendicino / No comments

Alice Julier is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Food Studies at Chatham University. She writes about material life, social movements, domestic life, labor, consumption, and inequality in food systems. Her latest research examines discourses in contemporary food activism. Other work includes: “Mapping Men onto the Menu,” in Food and Foodways, “Family and Domesticity ” in A Cultural History of Food: The Modern Age; “The Political Economy of Obesity: The Fat Pay All,” inFood and Culture: A Reader; and “Hiding Race and Class in the Discourse of Commercial Food” in From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies. Her book is entitled Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality. She is the past president of Association for the Study of Food and Society and is on the board of Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society.

 

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Food for Big Thoughts: Eat and Live Healthy | March 14, 2013

Alice Julier, food access, growing food, healthy food, local food economy, urban agriculture

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