Leisure and Food

Informationen zum Autor Heather Mair teaches in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research interests include critical investigations of leisure in the context of community-building, which includes food, sport, and tourism. Jennifer Sumner teaches in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at OISE/University of Toronto, Canada. She has co-edited Critical Perspectives in Food Studies , writes about food and learning, and teaches a course called The Pedagogy of Food. Klappentext This book is the first to address the interface of leisure and food - two vital areas of human interest. It investigates leisure and food through sports nutrition products, sustainable meals, ethnic restaurants, gardening and urban agriculture. This book was published as a special issue of Leisure/Loisir. Zusammenfassung This book is the first to address the interface of leisure and food – two vital areas of human interest. It investigates leisure and food through sports nutrition products, sustainable meals, ethnic restaurants, gardening and urban agriculture. This book was published as a special issue of Leisure/Loisir. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Critical encounters: introduction to special issue on leisure and food 2. “Just” desserts: an interpretive analysis of sports nutrition marketing 3. Promoting sustainable food and food citizenship through an adult education leisure experience 4. Epitomizing the “other” in ethnic eatertainment experiences 5. Gardening in green space for environmental justice: food security, leisure and social capital 6. Growing in place: the interplay of urban agriculture and place sentiment 7. Tending to the soil: autobiographical narrative inquiry of gardening 8. Cooking up a storm: politics, labour and bodies

Product details

• Authors: Heather (University of Waterloo Mair, Heather (University of Waterloo) Sumner Mair
• Assisted by: Heather Mair (Editor), Heather (University of Waterloo Mair (Editor), Mair Heather (Editor), Jennifer Sumner (Editor), Jennifer (University of Toronto Sumner (Editor), Sumner Jennifer (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2015
• EAN: 9781138903128
• ISBN: 978-1-138-90312-8
• No. of pages: 138
• Subjects: Guides > Sport; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; COOKING / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Service, Cookery / food & drink etc, Sports & outdoor recreation, Hospitality and service industries, Service industries, Sports and Active outdoor recreation, Cookery / food and drink / food writing