Elaine Swan

Feminist food studies

Elaine Swan

In this short chapter, I provide an overview of feminist food studies, how feminists define its principles and scope and key texts. I start with its history in a North American context and then show how it has been developed and challenged …

Drawing a line: commenting culture, food povertyism and neoliberal responsibilisation

Marsha Smith, Elaine Swan, Elise Wach

We analyse media and public responses to DISHED (co-Designing Innovative Infrastructure for Sustainable Healthy & Equitable Diets), a UKRI-funded initiative researching and piloting subsidised public restaurants offering affordable, nutritious meals. Following the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announcement of 7 July 2025, …

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Addressing food system determinants of health inequalities in urban environments: learnings from the FoodSEqual and FoodSEqual-Health projects

Carol Wagstaff, Clare Pettinger, Clare Relton, Katerina Psarikidou et autres

Diet is just one social determinant of health, with obesity and diet-related illness as leading causes of premature deaths and disability in the UK. People living in deprived areas of the UK are more likely to experience poor health outcomes, linked to …

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Pedagogy, education and food

Elaine Swan

GWO in Interesting Times: Joint Editorial

Bettina Bastian, Natalia Vershinina, Bronwyn P. Wood, Haya Al‐Dajani et autres

Editorial comment.

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The fragrance of ghee: food aesthetics, food insecurity and policy dreams

Elaine Swan, Shazna Hussain, Julie Yip

In this short article, we call for policy makers, activists and academics to take account of food aesthetics of economically and racially marginalised people – especially women – when understanding and intervening in food distribution. Although it may seem that aesthetics and …

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Whiteness in organisations

Elaine Swan

White feminism in organisation studies: a calling out

Elaine Swan

Although there is an emergent literature in feminist organisation studies on whiteness, less attention has been given specifically to the racialisation of gender, the significance of middle-class white femininity, and the orientation of white feminism. Yet there is a history of scholarship, …

Foodwork: Racialized, gendered and classed labors

Elaine Swan, Maud Perrier, Janet Sayers

Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.

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Mapping Pockets of Survival

Elaine Swan

In our Shadwell food history walk, part of a larger ‘Food Lives’ initiative, we employed counter-mapping techniques to shed light on overlooked post-war migrant cafés, revealing their essential role in facilitating food security and community. These spaces, often central in marginalised individuals’ …

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To be accountable: The whiteness of feminist organisation studies

Elaine Swan

In this short article, I discuss the silence about white feminism in feminist organisation studies. Drawing on histories and contemporary critiques of white feminism in and outside academia, I ask how white feminism might operate in feminist organisation studies and what we …

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Interview on ‘Mediated Emotions of Migration’: Elaine Swan and Sukhmani Khorana

Sukhmani Khorana, Elaine Swan

This discussion piece between Elaine Swan and Sukhmani Khorana contextualises Khorana's new book in her research trajectories in refugee and media studies, and also unpacks new directions in exploring social movements and how they intersect with the study of emotions and practices …

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