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Core readings
PART 1. THINKING GEOGRAPHICALLY ABOUT FASHION & FOOD
1. Introduction & what is in your basket of goods? (CM/LC) (w/b 2nd October)
Atkins P and Bowler I (2001) Food in society: economy, culture, geography. Hodder Arnold, London. Chapter 1: A background to food studies, pp.3-20.
2. Framing the study of fashion of food: space, scale & commodity journeys (LC) (w/b 9th October)
Allen, J. (2008) Claiming connections: a distant world of sweatshops. In Barnett, C, Robinson, J and Rose, G. (eds) Geographies of Globalization: Living in a Demanding World London: Sage: 7-54
Beardsworth, A. and Keil, T. (1997) Sociology on the Menu. Routledge: London. In particular Chapter 2 The Making of the Modern Food System.
Cook I (2010) Geographies of food – ‘afters’. Progress in Human Geography 34.
Crewe L (2003) A thread lost in an endless labyrinth: unravelling fashion’s commodity chains In Hughes and Reimer Geographies of Commodity Chains Routledge
Crewe, L. (2008) Ugly beautiful: counting the cost of the global fashion industry Geography January
Hartwick, E. (1998) Geographies of Consumption: a commodity chain approach Society and Space 16 423-437
Hartwick, E. (2000) Towards a geographical politics of consumption Environment and Planning A 32 1177-1192
Hughes, A. Buttle, M. & Wrigley, N. (2007) Organisational Geographies of corporate responsibility: a UK-US comparison of retailers’ ethical trading initiatives Journal of Economic Geography 7(4) 491-513
Hughes A and Reimer S (2004) Introduction. In: Hughes A and Reimer S (eds) Geographies of Commodity Chains. Routledge, London, pp.1-16.
Jackson P, Ward N and Russell P (2006) Mobilising the commodity chain concept in the politics of food and farming. Journal of Rural Studies 22, 129-141.
Morgan K, Marsden T and Murdoch J (2006) Worlds of food: place, power and provenance in the food chain. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Chapters: 1. Networks, conventions and regions: theorizing ‘worlds of food’; and 3. ‘Geographies of Agri-Food’.
Tansey, G. and Worsely, T. (1995) The Food System: a Guide. Earthscan, London. Chapter 1: Introduction, pp.9-24.
3. The body, food & fashion (LC) (w/b 16th October)
Crewe, L. (2008) Ugly beautiful: counting the cost of the global fashion industry Geography January
Clarke A, Miller D, 2002, “Fashion and anxiety” Fashion Theory 6 191 – 214
Colls, R. 2007 Materialising bodily matter: intra-action and the embodiment of fat Geoforum 38 (2) pp.353–365.
Entwistle, J. (2000) Fashion and the fleshy body: dress as embodied practice Fashion Theory 4.3
Entwistle, J. (2000) The dressed body as situated practice Fashion Theory Issue 3
Entwistle, J. (2006) Keeping up appearances: aesthetic labour in the fashion modelling industries of London and New York The Sociological Review 54: 4
Guthman, J. 2012. Opening up the black box of the body in geographical obesity research: toward a critical political ecology of fat. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(5), 951-57.
Guthman, J. and duPuis, M. 2006. Embodying neo-liberalism: economy, culture and the politics of fat Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 24: 427-448.
Woodward, S (2007) Why women wear what they wear Oxford: Berg
4. Who eats, who governs food? Food subjectivities & institutions (CM) (w/b 23rd October)
Dubuisson-Quellier, S. et al. (2011) Citizenship and consumption: mobilisation in alternative food systems in France. Sociologia Ruralis, 51 (3), 284-303.
Johnston, J., (2008). The citizen-consumer hybrid: ideological tensions and the case of Whole Foods Market. Theory and Society 37, 229–270.
Johnston, J. and Baumann, S. (2015) Foodies: democracy and distinction in the gourmet foodscape. Chapter 4 ‘Food Politics’, specifically the section ‘Competing ideologies in Foodie Politics’. Routledge: New York and London. [Available as an Ebook]
Marsden, T et al. (2000) Consuming Interests: the social provision of foods. Chapter 2: Food Policy and Regulation, and Chapter 4: Citizenship, consumption and food rights. UCL Press, London.
Morgan K, Marsden T and Murdoch J (2006) Worlds of food: place, power and provenance in the food chain. Chapter 2: The regulatory world of agri-food. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Renting, H. et al (2013) Building Food Democracy: Exploring Civic Food Networks and Newly Emerging Forms of Food Citizenship. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. 19, No. 3, pp. 289–307.
Sassatelli, R. (2015) Consumer Culture, Sustainability and a New Vision of Consumer Sovereignty. Sociologia Ruralis, 55 (4) 483–496, DOI: 10.1111/soru.12081.
5. SEMINAR 1: The body, food & fashion (KP, LC, CM) (w/b 30th October)
Compulsory readings for the seminar to be supplied separately
PART 2: ‘BIG’ FASHION & FOOD
FIELDWORK WEEK (w/b 6th November)
6. Big food (CM) (w/b 13th November)
Core readings
Sage, C. (2012) Environment and Food. Chapter 2: The global agri-food system. Routledge, Abingdon. pp.14-66.
Whatmore S (1995) From farming to agri-business. In: Johnston R, Taylor P and Watts M (eds) Geographies of global change. Blackwell, Oxford pp.36-4.
7. Film screening Food Inc. AND SEMINAR 2: big food (CM & KP) (w/b 20th November)
Compulsory readings for the seminar
Freidberg, S. (2003) Cleaning up down South: Supermarkets, ethical trade and African horticulture. Social & Cultural Geography, 4:1, 27-43.
Guthman, J. (2007) Commentary on teaching food: Why I am fed up with Michael Pollan et al. Agriculture and Human Values 24:261–264.
Sage, C. (2012) Environment and Food. Chapter 2: The global agri-food system. Routledge, Abingdon. pp.14-66. [Available as an e-book]
8. Big fashion: corporate power in a concentrated system (LC) (w/b 27th November)
BBC (2008) Primark on the rack available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cf06z
Bain, M. (2016) Zara is an unstoppable sales machine Business of Fashion
Crewe, L (2017) Fast fashion and biocommodifcation. Chapter 3 in Geographies of Fashion, Bloomsbury
Ghemawat, P. and Nueno, J. (2003) “Zara: Fast Fashion’. Harvard Business Review, April, Harvard Business Press, Oxford: Berg. Available:
Tokatli, N. (2008) Global sourcing: insights from the global clothing industry. The case of Zara Journal of Economic Geography, 8 21-38
9. Film screening of The True Cost (KP) (w/b 4th December)
10. TIMED ESSAY IN-CLASS (w/b 11th December)
PART 3: PLACE, PROVENANCE & TIME
11. Branding, luxury and flagship stores (LC) (w/b 29th Jan)
Crewe, L. (2017) Luxury: Flagships, singularity and the art of value creation. Chapter 5 in Geographies of Fashion
Crewe, L., & Martin-Woodhead, A. (2016). Looking at Luxury: consuming luxury fashion in global cities. In I. Hay, & J. V. Beaverstock (Eds.), Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich (pp. 322-338). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar
Doherty, C. and Moore, A. (2007), The international flagship stores of luxury fashion retailers, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford.
Nobbs, K., Moore, C. M., and Sheridan, M. (2012), ‘The flagship format within the luxury fashion market’. International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, 40 (12), 920-934.
12. Slow fashion (KP) (w/b 5th Feb)
Beard, N. D. (2015). The Branding of Ethical Fashion and the Consumer: A Luxury Niche or Mass-Market Reality? Fashion Theory, 12(4), 447-467.
Crewe, L. (2013). Tailoring and tweed: mapping the spaces of slow fashion. Fashion Cultures Revisited, Routledge, London. Pp 200-14.
Crewe, L. (2017). The Geographies of Fashion. London: Bloomsbury. (Esp Chapter 4 and Chapter 5)
Fletcher, K. (2010). Slow fashion: an invitation for systems change. Fashion Practice, 2(2), 259-265.
Fletcher, K., & Grose, L. (2012). Fashion & Sustainability: Design for Change. London: Laurence King. (Esp Chapter 10 and 12)
Joy, A., Sherry Jr, J. F., Venkatesh, A., Wang, J., & Chan, R. (2012). Fast fashion, sustainability, and the ethical appeal of luxury brands. Fashion Theory, 16(3), 273-295.
Leslie, D., Brail, S., & Hunt, M. (2014). Crafting an antidote to fast fashion: The case of Toronto's independent fashion design sector. Growth and Change, 45(2), 222-239.
Pookulangara, S., & Shephard, A. (2013). Slow fashion movement: Understanding consumer perceptions—An exploratory study. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 20(2), 200-206.
Tokatli, N. (2014). ‘Made in Italy? Who cares!’ Prada’s new economic geography. Geoforum, 54, 1-9.
13. Place, provenance and the alternative food sector (CM w/b 12th Feb)
Guthman, J. (2008) Neoliberalism and the making of food politics in California. Geoforum, 39, pp.1171-1183.
Harris, E. (2008) Neoliberal subjectivities or a politics of the possible? Reading for difference in AFNs. Area 41 (4), pp.55-63.
Hinrichs, C. (2000) ‘Embeddedness and local food systems: notes on two types of direct agricultural market’. Journal of Rural Studies, 16, pp. 295-303.
Ilbery, B. and Kneafsey, M. (2000) Producer constructions of quality in regional speciality food production: a case study from south west England. Journal of Rural Studies, 16 (2), 217-230.
Maye, D., Holloway, L. and Kneafsey, M. (2007) Alternative Food Geographies: Representation and Practice. Elsevier, Oxford. Particularly chapter 1: Introducing alternative food geographies.
Parrott, N., Wilson, N. and Murdoch, J. (2002) Spatializing quality: regional protection and the alternative geography of food. European Urban and Regional Studies, 9 (3), 241-261.
Renting, H., Schermer, M. and Rossi, A. (2012) Building Food Democracy: Exploring Civic Food Networks and Newly Emerging Forms of Food Citizenship. Int. Jnl. of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food 19, No. 3, pp. 289–307.
Watts, D., Ilbery, B. and Maye, D. (2005) Making re-connections in agro-food geography: alternative systems of food provision. Progress in Human Geography 29, 22-40.
Whatmore, S., Stassart, P., and Renting, H. (2003). Guest Editorial: What's Alternative About Alternative Food Networks? Environment and Planning A 35, 389-391.
14. Slow food (RH) (w/b 19th Feb)
Feagan, R. (2007) The place of food: mapping out the ‘local’ in local food systems. Progress in Human Geography, 31(1), 23-42.
Hayes-Conroy, A. and Martin, D. G. (2010) Mobilising bodies: visceral identification in the Slow Food Movement. Transaction of the British Institute of British Geographers, 35(2), 269-281.
Leitch, A. (2003) Slow Food and the politics of pork fat: Italian food and European identity. Ethnos, 65(4), 437-432.
Macdonald, K. I. (2013) The morality of cheese: a paradox of defensive localism in a transnational economy. Geoforum, 22, 93-102.
Miele, M and Murdoch, J. (2002) The practical aesthetics of traditional cuisines: Slow Food in Tuscany. Sociologia Ruralis, 42(2), 312-328.
Reed, M. (2008) Slow Food Revolution: a new culture for eating and living. Journal of Rural Studies, 24(4), 478-479.
Sassatelli, R. and Davolio, F. (2010) Consumption, pleasure and politics: Slow Food and the politico-aesthetic problematization of food. Journal of Consumer Research, 10(2), 202-232.
Simotti, L. (2012) The ideology of Slow Food. Journal of European Studies, 42(2), 168-189.
Siniscalchi, V. (2013) Environment, regulation and the moral economy of food in the Slow Food Movement. Journal of Political Economy, 20, 295-305.
15. Digital disruption (LC) (w/b 26th Feb)
Crewe, L. (2017) software:softwhere. Chapter 7 in course text The Geographies of Fashion.
Jenkins, H. (2006) Convergence: where old and new media collide Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Kitchin, R. (1998) Towards geographies of cyberspace Progress in Human Geography 22(3) 385-406
Licoppe, C. (2004) Connected presence: the emergence of a new repertoire for managed social relationships in a changing communication technoscape Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 22: 135-156
Negroponte, N. (1995) Being Digital New York: Vintage Books
Prahalad, C. & Ramaswamy, V. (2004) The Future of Competition: Co-creating Unique Value with Customers, MA: Harvard Business School Press
Rocamora, A. (2012) Personal Fashion Blogs: screens and mirrors in digital self-portraits Fashion Theory (15.4) 407-424
16. SEMINAR 3: Place, provenance and the alternative food sector (CM/KP) (w/b 5th March)
Compulsory readings for the seminar
Born, B. and Purcell, M. (2006) Avoiding the local trap: scale and food systems in planning research. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 26, pp.195-207.
Galt, R., Bradley, K., Christensen, L., Van Soelen Kim, J. and Lobo, R. (2015) Eroding the Community in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): Competition’s Effects in
Alternative Food Networks in California. Sociologia Ruralis. DOI: 10.1111/soru.12102
Rippon, M. (2014) What is the geography of Geographical Indications? Place, production methods and protected food names. Area 46 (2), 154-162.
PART 4: CONTENTIOUS COMMODITIES
17. Meatification (CM) (w/b 12th March)
Bakker, E., Dagevos, H., (2012). Reducing meat consumption in today’s consumer soceity: questioning the citizen-consumer gap. Journal of Agricultural and Envrionmental Ethics 25, pp.877-894.
Dibb, S. and Fitzpatrick, I. (2014) Let's talk about meat: changing dietary behaviour for the 21st century. Report from the ‘Eating Better’ campaign. [Available as a download from:
http://www.eating-better.org/uploads/documents/Let’sTalkAboutMeat.pdf]
Morris, C., Kirwan, J. and Lally, R. (2014) Less Meat Initiatives: An Initial Exploration of a Diet-focused Social Innovation in Transitions to a More Sustainable Regime of Meat Provisioning. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food,Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 189–208.
Morris, C. (2017) Taking the politics out of broccoli: debating (de)meatification in UK national and regional newspaper coverage of the Meat Free Mondays campaign. Sociologia Ruralis.
Sage, C., (2014). Making and unmaking meat: cultural boundaries, environmental thresholds and dietary transgressions, in: M. Goodman, C. Sage (eds) Food Transgressions: Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics. Farnham: Ashgate, pp.205-226.
Singer, R. (2016) Neoliberal Backgrounding, the Meatless Monday Campaign, and the Rhetorical Intersections of Food, Nature, and Cultural Identity. Communication, Culture & Critique.
Wellesley, L., Happer, C, Froggatt. A. (2015) Changing diet, changing climate: pathways to lower meat consumption. Chatham House, London. [Available as a download from: www.chathamhouse.org]
www.chathamhouse.org
Weis, T. (2013) The meat of the global food crisis. Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 40, No. 1, 65–85, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2012.752357
Weis, T. (2013) The ecological hoofprint: the global burden of industrial livestock. Zed books: London, New York.
18. Made by, Made of: Bio-commodification, hidden production and exploitation in fashion’s supply chains (LC) (w/b 19th March)
Crewe, L. (2017) Fast fashion, global spaces and biocommodification. Chapter 3 in Geographies of Fashion
Fashion Revolution (2017) Money, Fashion, Power
http://fashionrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FR_FashionTransparencyIndex.pdf
Hoskins, T. (2014) Stitched up: The anti-capitalist book of fashion London
Minney, S. (2017) Slave to fashion
EASTER BREAK - Term ends w/b 19th March
19. The new politics of milk (CM) (w/b 23rd April)
Curry, A. 2013. Archaeology: The milk revolution. Nature 500: 20-22.
Dairy UK: the voice of the dairy industry:
Dupuis, M. 2002. Nature’s perfect food: how milk became America’s drink. NYUP: New York.
Holloway, L. and Bear, C. (2011) DNA typing and super dairies: changing practices and remaking cows. Environment and Planning A, volume 43: 1487-1491.
Morris, C. (2017) Framing non-dairy and dairy milks and sustainability. [Unpublished working paper – available as a download from Moodle.]
Shurtleff, W. and Aoyagi, A. 2013. History of Soymilk and Other Non-Dairy Milks (1226-
2013). California: SoyInfoCenter. [Available as a download]
White lies campaign (Viva): https://www.viva.org.uk/white-lies
Wiley, A.S. 2011. Milk for ‘growth’: global and local meanings of milk consumption in China, India, and the United States. Food and Foodways 19 (1–2): 11–33.
20. Revision class (LC/CM) (w/b 30th April)
