Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life / Studies in Childhood and Youth (PDF)

KATHRYN BACKETT-MILBURN is Professor of the Sociology of Families and Health in Community Health Sciences and the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR)
HELENE BREMBECK is Professor of Ethnology and co-director of the Center for Consumer Science (CFK) at Göteborg University, Sweden
JOSEPH BURRIDGE is a part-time teacher in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, a Sessional Tutor in Media and Communications at Nottingham Trent International College (Kaplan), and a Research Associate at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sheffield, UK
DANIEL THOMAS COOK is Associate Professor of Childhood Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University, USA
PENNY CURTIS is Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of Sheffield, UK
NIKA DORRER is Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Social Science at the University of Stirling, UK
AROLINE DRYDEN is Lecturer in Health Care at the University of Sheffield, UK
RUTH EMOND is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Stirling, UK
KATIE ELLIS is working on her PhD in the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK
ALLISON JAMES is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth and Directorof the Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield, UK
ANNE TRINE KJØRHOLT is Associate Professor and Director of Norwegian Centre for Child Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway
JULIA KEENAN is Research Assistant at the University of Leeds, UK
JULIA LAWTON is Senior Research Fellow in Community Health Sciences, in the Medical School at the University of Edinburgh, UK
IAN MCINTOSH is Senior Lecturer in

'...provides novel understandings of children's everyday food practices and experiences, any why children eat what they do. Such perspectives are notably missing from the public health debates about childhood obesity and could fill a significant gap...a valuable edition to Childhood Studies and Food Studies' - Canadian Journal of Sociology

'...[a] timely contribution...The editors succeed in their attempt to broaden our understanding by pointing to the complexity surrounding children as consumers and social actors across the ages and in different social and cultural locations when engaged in such an everyday practice as eating.' - Dr. Ulla Gustafsson, Network, BSA