SOAS Food Studies Centre Books Launch

The SOAS Food Studies Centre Books Launch will mark the publication of eight books authored or edited by centre members:

• Why We Eat, How We Eat , eds. Emma-Jayne Abbots (Centre Research Associate) and Anna Lavis, Ashgate 2013
• Waste Matters , eds. David Evans, Hugh Campbell and Anne Murcott (Centre Professorial Research Associate), Wiley Blackwell, 2103
• The Handbook of Food Research , eds. Anne Murcott (Centre Professorial Research Associate), Warren Belasco and Peter Jackson (Centre Advisory Committee Member), Bloomsbury 2013
• Food Between the Country and the City , eds. Nuno Domingos (Centre Research Associate), José Manuel Sobral and Harry G. West (Centre Chair), Bloomsbury 2014
• Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World , eds. Yuson Jung, Jakob Klein (Centre Deputy Chair) and Melissa Caldwell, University of California Press, 2014
• Food Consumption in Global Perspective: Essays in the Anthropology of Food in Honour of Jack Goody , eds. Jakob Klein (Centre Deputy Chair) and Anne Murcott (Centre Professorial Research Associate)
• The Political Economy of Arab Food Sovereignty , Jane Harrigan (Centre Member), Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
• Tuked Rini, Cosmic Traveller. Life and Legend in the Heart of Borneo , Monica Janowski (Centre Research Associate), Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, in Copenhagen, 2014

Commentary will be provided by :

• Peter Jackson , Professor of Geography, The University of Sheffield
• Francesca Bray , Professor of Social Anthropology, The University of Edinburgh

Organiser: Centres & Programmes Office

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