School Food Politics

Contents: Chef Ann Cooper: Foreword - Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower/Sarah A. Robert: Introduction: School Food Politics - Jen Sandler: Reframing the Politics of Urban Feeding in U.S. Public Schools: Parents, Programs, Activists, and the State - Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower: Fixing Up Lunch Ladies, Dinner Ladies, and Canteen Managers: Cases of School Food Reform in England, the United States, and Australia - Kristin D. Phillips/Daniel Roberts: Cultivating Schools for Rural Development: Labor, Learning, and the Challenge of Food Sovereignty in Tanzania - Sarah A. Robert/Irina Kovalskys: Defining the "Problem" with School Food Policy in Argentina - Mi Ok Kang: Free for All, Organic School Lunch Programs in South Korea - Marion Nestle: School Food, Public Policy, and Strategies for Change - Catherine Lalonde: Food Prep 101: Low-Income Teens of Color Cooking Food and Analyzing Media - Doug Davis/Dana Hudson/Members of the Burlington School Food Project: Going Local: Burlington, Vermont's Farm-to-School Program - Abraham DeLeon: What's That Non-Human Doing on Your Lunch Tray? Disciplinary Spaces, School Cafeterias, and Possibilities of Resistance - Sarah A. Robert/Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower: Coda: Healthier Horizons.

Sarah A. Robert is Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo's Graduate School of Education. Her research and teaching explores the politics of education reform, particularly as it relates to teachers' work, social education, and gender equity. She has published related articles and book chapters in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States.
Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota. He is the author of The Politics of Policy in Boys' Education: Getting Boys «Right» (2008) and co-editor, with Wayne Martino and Michael Kehler, of The Problem with Boys' Education: Beyond the Backlash (2009), as well as numerous journal articles. His research interests include food politics, gender and education, educational policy, and the politics and sociology of education.

«An extraordinarily valuable contribution to the growing literature on school food, 'School Food Politics' will both engage your intellect and nourish your activism. Its theoretical framework of policy ecologies will expand your conception of school food reform, and its concrete accounts and case studies will remind you of why this challenging undertaking is worth pursuing with energy and creativity.» (Janet Poppendieck, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York)