Call for Special Issue on Food Habits

The Drugs, Habits and Social Policy journal is inviting expressions of interests to guest edit a Special Issue on Food Habits. The Special Issue will address the growing scholarship on habit-forming foods and feeding practices. Potential guest editors are welcome to submit proposals that explore how different actors and knowledge practices shape information and expertise around everyday substances, such as alcohol, sugar, caffeine and others. Contributions may examine how habitual food consumption practices are shaped by political economies, commercial influences, digital cultures, or intersecting systems of inequality.

Potential topics could include:

• digitally-mediated food and nutrition communities of expert and lay-person knowledge sharing platforms
• social and political campaigns targeting specific food habits in certain (sub)population groups
• the role of policy, state and civil society sector as well as commercial actors in shaping consumption habits (e.g., sugar taxes, alcohol marketing restrictions)
• intersection of policy on alcohol and other drugs and the regulation of food and beverages
• other related fields

Contributions focusing on the intersection of drug policy and food are of particular interest.

The Drugs, Habits and Social Policy journal aims to bring forward diverse scholarship from under-represented regions and knowledge cultures as well as from policy and practitioner fields, and seeks to shed light on culturally significant practices and meanings on the rapidly evolving knowledge infrastructures about different substances, and their social and material shaping of our societies.

For the expression of interest, please, submit a 300-word proposal for a prospective special issue as well as the names and affiliations of the suggested guest editors to the co-Editors-in-Chief: Aysel Sultan ([email protected]) and Marta Rychert ([email protected]).