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Tony Winson
Tony Winson (M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto) taught at Saint Mary's University and the University of Western Ontario before joining the University of Guelph. He has been writing on agriculture, food and rural development issues related to Canada and the Third World for more than twenty years. He is the author of Coffee and Democracy in Modern Costa Rica (Macmillan, 1989), The Intimate Commodity (Garamond, 1993) and Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives: Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy (U. of Toronto Press, 2002, co-author Belinda Leach). This latest book won the John Porter prize of the Canadian Sociology Association for 2003, and examines economic restructuring, work, and the factors underlying sustainability in small manufacturing-dependent rural communities in several regions of Ontario. Currently, he is extending his earlier interests in the sociology of food and agribusiness, with particular emphasis on the political economic determinants of diet and nutrition.
Research Area(s):
Political economic context of diet and nutrition, sociology of food environments, sustaining rural communities and local ecologies, rural community restructuring, political economy of the Canadian agro-food complex, agrarian social structure and its relationship to politics and the State.
Selected Publications:
Winson, A., 2010 “The Demand for Healthy Eating: Supporting a Transformative Food Movement“ Rural Sociology, vol.75, no. 4, December, pp. 584-600.
Winson, A. 2008. “School Food Environments and the Obesity Issue: Content, Structural Determinants, and Agency in Canadian High Schools”, Agriculture and Human Values, 25, pp. 499-511.
Winson, A. 2006. "Ecotourism and Sustainability in Cuba: Does Socialism Make a Difference? Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Vol. 14, No. 1.
Winson, A. 2004. “Bringing Political Economy into the Debate on the Obesity Epidemic”, Agriculture and Human Values, 21, pp. 299-312.
Winson, A. and Belinda Leach, 2002. Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives: Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. [John Porter prize, 2003]
Winson, A. 1999 "Rural Retreat: The Social Impact of Restructuring in Three Ontario Communities', in D. Knight and A. Joseph (eds.) Restructuring Societies: Insights from the Social Sciences. Ottawa: Carleton University Press (with Belinda Leach).
Winson, A. 1997 '"Does Class Consciousness Exist in Rural Communities?" The Impact of Restructuring and Plant Shutdowns in Rural Canada', Rural Sociology, vol. 62, no. 4, Winter.
Winson, A. 1993 The Intimate Commodity: Food and the Development of the Canadian Agro-Industrial Complex. Toronto: Garamond Press, 243 p.
Winson, A. 1989 Coffee and Democracy in Modern Costa Rica, London: Macmillan and Co., and Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 195 p.
Email:
twinson@uoguelph.ca Phone:
52193
Office Number:
642