Hungry for Change
How Post-Secondary Campuses Are Transforming Food Systems
Will be published approx. on 17. November 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-1-4875-0992-7 (ISBN)
Description
Hungry for Change demonstrates how students, staff, and faculty are working towards food systems transformation on, and beyond, the post-secondary campus.
Through careful curation of chapters and a substantive introduction, this collection provides empirical depth while laying essential analytical groundwork demonstrating the connections between seemingly discrete and disconnected campus-based food movements. Drawing on critical food studies and critical university studies, this book proposes the new subfield of "critical campus food studies" as a distinct analytical approach for understanding how campuses, and their actors, are implicated in reproducing and resisting food injustice. Read through this lens, the chapters in this collection situate on-campus food justice interventions within broader structural and scalar food systems and post-secondary institutional dynamics. The contributors to this book enliven food systems scholarship while introducing new conceptual and theoretical tools for understanding socio-ecological and food systems change on and through the campus.
Hungry for Change provides a platform to those on campuses struggling for more just and sustainable food systems through a variety of contribution types, from conventional research chapters to field notes and photovoice essays. It is essential reading for students, staff, and faculty invested in the scholarship and practicalities of movements for food justice.
Through careful curation of chapters and a substantive introduction, this collection provides empirical depth while laying essential analytical groundwork demonstrating the connections between seemingly discrete and disconnected campus-based food movements. Drawing on critical food studies and critical university studies, this book proposes the new subfield of "critical campus food studies" as a distinct analytical approach for understanding how campuses, and their actors, are implicated in reproducing and resisting food injustice. Read through this lens, the chapters in this collection situate on-campus food justice interventions within broader structural and scalar food systems and post-secondary institutional dynamics. The contributors to this book enliven food systems scholarship while introducing new conceptual and theoretical tools for understanding socio-ecological and food systems change on and through the campus.
Hungry for Change provides a platform to those on campuses struggling for more just and sustainable food systems through a variety of contribution types, from conventional research chapters to field notes and photovoice essays. It is essential reading for students, staff, and faculty invested in the scholarship and practicalities of movements for food justice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-0992-7 (9781487509927)
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Persons
Michael Classens is an assistant professor and undergraduate associate director in the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto.
Michael Lawler is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto.
Michael Lawler is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto.
Content
1. Introduction: Hungry for Change: Towards a Critical Campus Food Studies
Michael Classens and Michael Lawler
Part I: Power and Resistance across Campus Food Movements
2. How Corporate Power Reshapes Campus Foodscapes and How Communities Are Fighting Back: The Case of Pouring Rights Contracts
Sophie Lamond
3. From Leader to Laggard: Reflections on Food Provisioning at the University of Toronto during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michael Lawler
4. Fait Accompli Planning: Threats to the Viability of Campus-Based Food Systems and Beyond
Matt Dutry
5. UofT Divest Your Plate of Breakfast Greed
Minh-Ly De Reboul
Part II: Remaking the Food System through Learning and Research
6. The Theoretical Tiffin: Nested Conceptual Frameworks for Campus Food Systems Change
Chaiti Seth
7. The Hidden Curriculum of Food (Un)sustainability: The Case of OISE/University of Toronto
Jennifer Sumner
8. Agency in an Age of Eco-anxiety: The George Brown College "Food Movements" Course and Campus Food System Change
Lori Stahlbrand
9. Decentralizing Power through Student and Community Engagement: Towards a New Food Justice Movement in Higher Learning
Leanne R. De Souza
10. Doing Lunch on Campus: From Scholar Activism to Institutional Buy-In
Jennifer Mitsche
Part III: Organize for Victory, Strategize for Success
11. Student Food Activism on Post-Secondary Campuses across Canada
Marie-Josee Massicotte
12. Faculties of Food Education: Teaching Teachers Critical Food Literacy
Jacob Kearey-Moreland
13. Replenishing the Soil: Agriculture Campus Engaging in Alternative Food Systems
Phoebe Stephens, Monika Korzun, and Kathleen Kevany
14. Cultivating Education, Research, and Community Outreach: Reflections from Bishop's University on Food Systems Change
Bryan Dale, Jane Morrison, Mirella Aoun, Darren Bardati, and Jennifer Downing
15. Campus Food Mapping as Justice-Oriented Organizational Change
Rosalie Zdzienicka Fanshe and Alastair Iles
16. Collaborative Urban Farmer Training as an Agent of Change
Andrew Paton, Lesley Campbell, and Rhonda Teitel-Payne
Part IV: Making Change Happen: Prefiguration in Campus Food Systems
17. Food Access: Dalhousie University's Loaded Ladle
Simon Berge
18. Hungry for Change: How Post-Secondary Campuses Are Transforming Food Systems in Northern Communities
Christine Callihoo
19. Cooperative Living, Cooperative Eating: Reflections from a Student Organizer
Cyrus Al-Zayadi
20. "It's All Part of a Long Process": How COVID Brought UGArden and the Campus Kitchen at UGA under One Roof, Expanded Community Partnerships, and Enriched Student Experiences at the University of Georgia
Johannah Biang, Andie Bisceglia, and Jennifer Jo Thompson
21. CSA to University Programs as Cornerstones to Broader Food System Transformation
Jairus Rossi and Tim Woods
22. Cultivating Food Sovereign Campuses
Erik Chevrier
23. The Urban Farm at TMU
Arlene Throness
24. Addressing Students' Food Insecurity in a Japanese Campus: The Case of Ritsumeikan Food Bank
Hai Ba Nguyen, Ellie McCampbell, Logan Day, Aya Kaneko, Julia K. Harper, Hein Mallee, and Filippo Oncini
25. The Future Is Fungal: Growing Mushrooms on Campus
Shane O'Donnell
Michael Classens and Michael Lawler
Part I: Power and Resistance across Campus Food Movements
2. How Corporate Power Reshapes Campus Foodscapes and How Communities Are Fighting Back: The Case of Pouring Rights Contracts
Sophie Lamond
3. From Leader to Laggard: Reflections on Food Provisioning at the University of Toronto during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michael Lawler
4. Fait Accompli Planning: Threats to the Viability of Campus-Based Food Systems and Beyond
Matt Dutry
5. UofT Divest Your Plate of Breakfast Greed
Minh-Ly De Reboul
Part II: Remaking the Food System through Learning and Research
6. The Theoretical Tiffin: Nested Conceptual Frameworks for Campus Food Systems Change
Chaiti Seth
7. The Hidden Curriculum of Food (Un)sustainability: The Case of OISE/University of Toronto
Jennifer Sumner
8. Agency in an Age of Eco-anxiety: The George Brown College "Food Movements" Course and Campus Food System Change
Lori Stahlbrand
9. Decentralizing Power through Student and Community Engagement: Towards a New Food Justice Movement in Higher Learning
Leanne R. De Souza
10. Doing Lunch on Campus: From Scholar Activism to Institutional Buy-In
Jennifer Mitsche
Part III: Organize for Victory, Strategize for Success
11. Student Food Activism on Post-Secondary Campuses across Canada
Marie-Josee Massicotte
12. Faculties of Food Education: Teaching Teachers Critical Food Literacy
Jacob Kearey-Moreland
13. Replenishing the Soil: Agriculture Campus Engaging in Alternative Food Systems
Phoebe Stephens, Monika Korzun, and Kathleen Kevany
14. Cultivating Education, Research, and Community Outreach: Reflections from Bishop's University on Food Systems Change
Bryan Dale, Jane Morrison, Mirella Aoun, Darren Bardati, and Jennifer Downing
15. Campus Food Mapping as Justice-Oriented Organizational Change
Rosalie Zdzienicka Fanshe and Alastair Iles
16. Collaborative Urban Farmer Training as an Agent of Change
Andrew Paton, Lesley Campbell, and Rhonda Teitel-Payne
Part IV: Making Change Happen: Prefiguration in Campus Food Systems
17. Food Access: Dalhousie University's Loaded Ladle
Simon Berge
18. Hungry for Change: How Post-Secondary Campuses Are Transforming Food Systems in Northern Communities
Christine Callihoo
19. Cooperative Living, Cooperative Eating: Reflections from a Student Organizer
Cyrus Al-Zayadi
20. "It's All Part of a Long Process": How COVID Brought UGArden and the Campus Kitchen at UGA under One Roof, Expanded Community Partnerships, and Enriched Student Experiences at the University of Georgia
Johannah Biang, Andie Bisceglia, and Jennifer Jo Thompson
21. CSA to University Programs as Cornerstones to Broader Food System Transformation
Jairus Rossi and Tim Woods
22. Cultivating Food Sovereign Campuses
Erik Chevrier
23. The Urban Farm at TMU
Arlene Throness
24. Addressing Students' Food Insecurity in a Japanese Campus: The Case of Ritsumeikan Food Bank
Hai Ba Nguyen, Ellie McCampbell, Logan Day, Aya Kaneko, Julia K. Harper, Hein Mallee, and Filippo Oncini
25. The Future Is Fungal: Growing Mushrooms on Campus
Shane O'Donnell