An important, contemporary focus of environmental sociology is on the necessary conditions to promote a sustainable transition. This debate typically centers institutions within a capitalist world-economy, specifically business, government, and civil society, and their capacity …
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Growing food demand has been the primary cause of increasingly unsustainable water consumption in the world’s breadbasket regions. This unsustainable demand can have steep human and environmental consequences, leading to physical and economic hardship among vulnerable communitie…
Socio-cultural diversity and ethnicity are key themes in the archaeological research of the Near East. Faunal remains are an important source of knowledge regarding the herd maintenance and subsistence strategies which supported ancient populations and often reflected informatio…
This dissertation situates concerns of food access and nutrition at the center of United States struggles for racial justice during the long civil rights era. The persistence of widespread hunger amidst agricultural abundance created a need and an organizing opportunity that pro…
Synopsis of linked short stories. It was 1948 and Manuel Souza was 15 years old when he left his family and the comfort of his village on Pico Island in the Portuguese Azores. With barely an eighth-grade education, Manuel arrived in the U.S., scared and unable to speak English. …
ABSTRACT During the Middle Ages, Jews, Christians and Muslims coexisted (often uneasily) on the Iberian Peninsula. These three religious groups were in a constant process of defining and preserving their identities, which were often constructed in terms of the relationships with…
This research examines the hierarchy of values that has operated in the modernization histories of Africa, with Ethiopia and Tanzania as case studies. Particular focus will be on analyzing the status that has been given to accessibility to food, and how African leadership has de…
Economists since Engel have recognized that the size and composition of a household effect its demand for goods and services. In the literature to date, the number and ages of children have been the main demographic variables that have been incorporated into the analysis of dema…
In the 1980s, the Ethiopian government relocated about 600,000 people from drought-affected and over-populated regions. Over 82,000 settlers moved to Metekel, a place occupied by the Gumz people. The official objective of the resettlement was preventing famine and attaining food…
With Malaysia becoming increasingly absorbed into the global economy, there has been a greater consumption of mass-produced commodities, particularly among its growing middle classes given rising incomes as the economy expands. Some theorists conclude that an increase in the con…
“Culinary Scapes” analyzes culinary cultural production produced and consumed by South Asians in various “national” sites: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Britain, Canada and the United States. It juxtaposes contemporary South Asian cultural production to identify the potentials as …
One of the most important aspects of food stability to be monitored is the potential to support microbial growth and/or toxin production. Many researches have shown that water activity (a {w}) cannot adequately account for the observed stability behavior of many food systems. We…
This dissertation relaxes the traditional assumption used in consumer theory, which takes preferences as fixed. I propose a model of immigrants' consumption behavior based on habit formation, incorporating past experiences, other consumers' consumption patterns, availability of …
This thesis is a study of how diasporic Iranian identities are represented in commercial food spaces in London and Vancouver. I look at how these identities are represented in both Iranian and non-Iranian commercial spaces such as grocery stores, restaurants and food stalls. My …
Consumers have increasing choice in food products and within the social environment of today's consumer, the factors of demand are increasingly complex. Food is no longer simply a primary necessity for survival, it is a leisure and family activity, the participation in which, ta…
Food is the foundation upon which societies are built. It is a means of survival, a source of wealth and prosperity and can be used as a means of social display. In Iron Age Atlantic Scotland, a wide range of food resources were open to exploitation. Among these, barley is likel…
This study explores experiences of conviviality and family mealtimes in 10 Spanish families and 10 families in the UK. Although there has been sociological interest in the concepts of commensality (the act of eating together) and the family meal, there is a paucity of literature…
Continuous Curatorial Conversations is a practice-led exploration of conversation, both as a medium and as a tool for capturing supplementary histories of the curatorial. The primary question of this research project is how the medium of conversation can be explored to write sup…
At the beginnings of the Gothic, in the eighteenth century, there was an anxiety or taboo surrounding consumption and appetite for the Gothic text itself and for the excessive and sensational themes that the Gothic discussed. The female body, becoming a commodity in society, was…