The Politics of the Global Food System - Non-credit bearing

Program Overview

This is a non-credit bearing course but can also be taken as

a credit bearing course

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On our Politics of the Global Food System short course we will examine key questions about power in the global food system. We consider major debates about global supply chains in the food system, the impact of food on international relations and security, and its role in fostering transnational ‘hybrid’ cultures. We also focus on political structures such as multilateral regimes and economic processes like commodity exchange in the reproduction of the global food system, and how the latter in turn affects climate change and our patterns of consumption.

This cross-disciplinary course incorporates sociological, geographical, political-economic and environmental policy literatures into its syllabus.

We aim to cover:

This course is non-credit bearing, so carries no credit points.