MA Anthropology of Food Dissertation Titles (2006 - Present)
The list below provides previous dissertation titles for the MA Anthropology of Food programme.
If you have any questions, please contact Professor Harry West, Programme Convenor on 020 7898 4414 or hw16@soas.ac.uk.
- A Cheating Alternative?: Cheats' cookbooks and the future of British home cooking
- A Garden that Grows Young People?: Food growing and stories of reconnection: a study of an urban food growing project in London
- An Ethnographic Portrait of the London Green Grocer
- Are You Listening? An analysis of the impact of communications on smallholder agriculture and livelihoods in Igbo Land, Nigeria
- Aversion and Aspiration, the Mundane and the Ritual: Cobra and other food practices in post-war Vietnam
- Beer Fish as Local Cuisine: Representations of local food in Yangshuo, China
- Bibimbap, Korean Air's In-flight Meal: A spoonful of nationalism in the air
- Brewing a Heritage: Ale and authenticity with the Campaign for Real Ale
- Cannabis in Grandma's Kitchen: The plant as food, drug and medicine?
- Challenging Assumptions: Anthropological perspectives on urban agriculture in Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala
- Challenging Cultural Ideas of Health: Fat acceptance and the 'heterotopia'
- City Food Festivals: Community and class in the construction of the urban foodscape
- Community Gardening in London: A critical perspective
- Consuming ‘Cheap’ Meat: How the British supermarket changed consumer attitudes to the meat commodity
- Cookbooks and Ethnic and National Identity in Trinidad and Tobago
- Cultivating Livehihoods: Edible school gardens, and tools for youth empowerment in Southern Africa
- Cypriots in London: Food and identity in the diaspora
- Dirt and Distance: Food packaging in the United States
- Discourses on Multiculturalism and Localism in British and Italian Television Cooking Shows
- Disentangling New Actors: The risk politics of genetically modified organisms
- Eating Qingzhen in China: Between purification and popularisation
- El Queso, el Terruno y la Patrimonia: The renaissance of artisanal cheesemaking, terroir and heritage at Finca de Uga in Lanzarote, the Canary Islands
- Ensuring Food Security in Pakistan: A comparative study on how development projects, access to land and natural disaster impacted food security in Sindh in 1973 and 2010
- Exploring Foodways: A lens of analysis in times of food insecurity
- Food, Meaning and Older People
- Glamping: The diversification of British farms and the consumption of food
- Hospital Food: An anthropological look at food as medical, business and social experience in a UK paediatric hospital
- How Far Can Commercially-led Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture Contribute to London's Sustainability?
- Itakaki Zen: Eating for enlightenment
- Jamie Oliver's World: Performance and cooking on everyday British television
- Juicing Down Babylon: Mainstreaming I-Tal food and the politics of consuming health in London
- Learning to Eat our Way in the World: Reconstructing the self in modern ethnic cookbooks
- London Microbreweries: How craft beer is transforming tradition, identity and consumption in the capital
- Making ‘Austerity’ Attractive: The role of Cuba and the 'Dig for Victory' campaign as models for contemporary urban agriculture movements
- Mining-induced Displacement: Effects on land access and food security
- Notion of 'Western Consumption' within the Post-socialist Context of Central and Eastern Europe
- Pas plus mal? An ethnographic analysis of factors influencing livelihood development outcomes in Anse-a-Pitre, Haiti
- Pastoral Inclusion: Perceptions of identity in history and development among the Kazakh pastoralists of Northern Xinjiang
- Perpetual Resistance, Reassessing Power
- Possibilities and Challenges for Immigrant Farm Workers in the Fast Food Supply Chain: Strategies rooted in home countries go global
- Prospects for Community Forest Governance and the UN-REDD mechanism
- Provenance, Planet, People and Profit: The meaning and certification of sustainable restaurants in London
- Reading 'Everyday Practices' through 19th Century Colonial Cookery Books
- ‘Resistance is Fertile’: How power relations in the city are contested through food
- Rural Food Deserts: Are supermarkets the solution or has rurality already solved the problem?
- Sacred Realms of Food: Rethinking 'diaspora' and 'development'
- Shape Shifters: Negotiating identity transition in Slimming World
- Shifting Epistemological Gears: Production and social reproduction in the context of agro-fuel development in South Africa
- Soya: An 'invisible' ingredient with a big impact
- Sweet-toothed 'Sucrophobics': An investigation into Western attitudes towards sugar, sweetness and health
- Tackling Malnutrition in Guatemala: Gender dynamics, development interventions, and the role of ethnography
- Taiwan Beef Noodle and the Production of Nationality
- The Business of Nutrition: A study of changing diets in Mumbai
- The Language of Chocolate
- The Paradox of ‘Authentic’ Italian Food Produced by Migrant Labourers
- The Private and Public in an Alternative Cookery School
- The Reproduction of Childhood Obesity and the Potential for Government Intervention in this Process
- The Social Life of the Ukrainian Lard(er)
- The Value and Values of Alternatives: (Re)connecting the dots?
- ‘This is not kolokythakia tiganita!,’ or, What Greek Cookery Books Reveal about Tradition, Nationality and the Localities
- Urban Agriculture and Ethnography
- What are the Different Values Articulated by Freegan Subculture in Regard to Food Waste?
- What is Superfood?: Putting the pomegranate in perspective
- What is the Influence of Westernized Japanese Food in Japanese Society?
- Whiskey and Experience
