Leisure and Food

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.

• 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