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Postgraduate Module Descriptor

SOCM021: Food Systems, Alternative Food Networks, and Ethical Consumption

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

The module will be structured as a reading and discussion seminar. The following themes will likely be covered, with minor variation from year to year depending upon the availability and current research of lecturers contributing to the module:

• Food, Agriculture and the State in Historical Perspective
• Famine and Food Aid
• Food Security from the Global South to the Global North
• Trade and Globalization in Agriculture and Food
• Food Sovereignty
• Ethical Consumption
• Short Food Chains
• Slow Food and Transition Towns
• Food, Heritage and the Cultural Economy
• Food, Brexit and the end (?) of Neoliberalism

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).