Selected Publications

Academic Articles and Book Chapters

Baumann, Shyon, Josée Johnston and Merin Oleschuk. 2022. “How do producers imagine consumers? Connecting farm and fork through a cultural repertoire of consumer sovereignty”, Sociologia Ruralis. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12401

Johnston, Josée. 2022. “Travelling Noodles and Migrating Pieces of Raw Fish: How Food Moves—and How it Moves Us”, Gastronomica. 22(1): iv-xiii. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2022.22.1.iv.

Baumann, Shyon, Emily H. Kennedy, and Josée Johnston. 2022. “Moral and Aesthetic Consecration and Higher Status Consumers’ Tastes: The ‘Good’ Food Revolution.” Poetics (92). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101654

Johnston, Josée, Anelyse Weiler, and Shyon Baumann. 2022. “The Cultural Imaginary of Ethical Meat: A Study of Producer Perceptions.” Journal of Rural Studies 89(January):186-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.11.021

Otto, Natália, Josée Johnston, and Shyon Baumann. 2021. “Moral Entrepreneurialism for the Hamburger: Strategies for Marketing a Contested Fast Food.” Cultural Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755211039932

Johnston, Josée, and Shyon Baumann. 2021. “Eating Animals: Exploring the ‘Meat Paradox’ in a Food Studies Classroom.” Food, Culture & Society 24(5):731-737. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2021.1898140

Johnston, Josée, Shyon Baumann, and Merin Oleschuk. 2021. “Capturing Inequality and Action in Prototypes: The Case of Meat-Eating and Vegetarianism.” Poetics (In Press):101530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101530

Johnston, Josée, and Anelyse Weiler. 2020. “Eating our Way to a Sustainable Future?” Pp. 390-410 in Vol. 2, The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology, edited by K. Legun, J. Keller, M. Bell, and M. Carolan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108554558

Johnston, Josée, Shyon Baumann, and Merin Oleschuk. 2019. “Omnivorous, Distinction, or Both?” Pp. 361-380 in The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, edited by F. Wherry and I. Woodward. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190695583.013.19

Cairns, Kate, Josée Johnston, and Merin Oleschuk. 2019. “Calibrating Motherhood.” Pp. 174-190 in Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home: Critical Perspectives, edited by V. Harman, B. Cappellini, and C. Faircloth. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315206974-11

Bateman, Tyler, Shyon Baumann, and Josée Johnston. 2019. “Meat as Benign, Meat as Risk: Mapping News Discourse of an Ambiguous Issue.” Poetics 76(October):101356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2019.03.001

Oleschuk, Merin, Josée Johnston, and Shyon Baumann. 2019. “Maintaining Meat: Cultural Repertoires and the Meat Paradox in a Diverse Socio-Cultural Context.” Sociological Forum 34(2):337-360. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12500

Kennedy, Emily H., Shyon Baumann, and Josée Johnston. 2018. “Eating for Taste and Eating for Change: Ethical Consumption as a High-Status Practice.” Social Forces 98(1):381-402. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soy113

Cairns, Kate, and Josée Johnston. 2018. “On (Not) Knowing Where Your Food Comes from: Meat, Mothering and Ethical Eating.” Agriculture and Human Values 35(3):569-580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-018-9849-5

Kennedy, Emily H., John R. Parkins, and Josée Johnston. 2018. “Food Activists, Consumer Strategies, and the Democratic Imagination: Insights from Eat-Local Movements.” Journal of Consumer Culture 18(1):149-168. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540516659125

Rodney, Alexandra, Josée Johnston, and Phillipa Chong. 2017. “Chefs at Home? Masculinities on Offer in Celebrity Chef Cookbooks.” Pp. 213-230 in Food, Masculinities and Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by M. Szabo and S. Koch. New York: Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474262354.0019

Johnston, Josée, Kate Cairns, and Merin Oleschuk. 2017. “A Kind Diet: Cultivating Consumer Politics, Status, and Femininity through Ethical Eating.” Pp. 286-300 in Handbook of Food and Popular Culture, edited by P. Nacaratto and K. LeBesco. New York: Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474296250.0030

Kennedy, Emily H., Josée Johnston, and John Parkins. 2017. “Small-p Politics: How Pleasurable, Convivial, and Pragmatic Political Ideals Influence Engagement in Eat-Local Initiatives.” British Journal of Sociology 69(3):670-690. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12298

Rodney, Alexandra, Sarah Cappeliez, Merin Oleschuk, and Josée Johnston. 2017. “The Online Domestic Goddess: An Analysis of Food Blog Femininities.” Food, Culture & Society 20(4):685-707. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2017.1357954

Baumann, Shyon, Michelle Szabo, and Josée Johnston. 2017. “Understanding the Food Preferences of People of Low Socioeconomic Status.” Journal of Consumer Culture 19(3):316-339. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540517717780

Goodman, Michael K., Josée Johnston, and Kate Cairns. 2017. “Food, Media and Space: The Mediated Biopolitics of Eating.” Geoforum 84(August):161-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.06.017

Johnston, Josée. 2017. “Can Consumers Buy Alternative Foods at a Big Box Supermarket?” Journal of Marketing Management 33(7-8):662-671. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257x.2017.1297033

Baumann, Shyon, Athena Engman, Emily H. Kennedy, and Josée Johnston. 2017. “Organic vs. Local: Comparing Individualist and Collectivist Motivations for ‘Ethical’ Food Consumption.” Canadian Food Studies 4(1):68–86. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i1.191

Books

Beagan, Brenda L., Gwen E. Chapman, Josée Johnston, Deborah McPhail, Elaine M. Power, and Helen Valliantos. 2014. Acquired Tastes: Why Families Eat the Way They Do. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press.

Johnston, Josée, Mike Gismondi, and James Goodman. 2006. Nature’s Revenge: Reclaiming Sustainability in the Age of Corporate Globalism. Peterborough/Toronto, ON: Broadview Press/University of Toronto Press.

Public Sociology

Johnston, Josée, and Michael Chrobok. 2022. “‘Nothing Says Gentrification Like Being Able to Order a Cortado’: How Does Food Reinforce Gentrification… but also Inspire Resistance? A Conversation with Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca.” Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies 22(1):50-59. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2022.22.1.50

Johnston, Josée, Koby Song-Nichols, and Michael Chrobok. 2021. “Challenging Power, Fighting for Food: A Gastronomica Call for Submissions on Food and Activism.” Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies 21(4):9-11. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.4.9

Oleschuk, Merin, Josée Johnston, and Shyon Baumann. 2021. “Foodie Tensions in Tough Times.” Footnotes: A Publication of the American Sociological Association 49(1):6-7. https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/attach/footnotes/footnotes-winter_2021_rev.pdf

Cairns, Kate, Norah MacKendrick, and Josée Johnston. 2020. “The ‘Organic Child’ Ideal Holds Mothers to an Impossible Standard.” Aeon, February 19. https://aeon.co/ideas/the-organic-child-ideal-holds-mothers-to-an-impossible-standard

Johnston, Josée. 2019. Review of Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won’t Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It by Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, and Sinikka Elliott. Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies 19(3):96-97. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2019.19.3.96

Kennedy, Emily H., Shyon Baumann, and Josée Johnston. “Cultural Capital 2.0? Eating for Taste and Eating for Change.” Consume This! Blog of the ASA Section on Consumers & Consumption, March 25. https://asaconsumers.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/consume-this-eating-for-taste-and-eating-for-change/

Johnston, Josée. 2018. Review of Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy by Richard Ocejo. Food, Culture & Society 21(5):716-718. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2018.1516071

Johnston, Josée. 2017. Review of The Practice of Eating by Alan Warde. European Journal of Cultural Studies 21(2):275-278. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549417743039

Cairns, Kate, Josée Johnston, and Merin Oleschuk. 2017. “Calibrating Extremes: The Balancing Act of Maternal Foodwork.” Gender & Society Blog, October 17. https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/calibrating-extremes-the-balancing-act-of-maternal-foodwork/

Johnston, Josée, and Judith Taylor. 2017. “Hugh Hefner’s Legacy: Narrow Visions of Sex and Beauty.” The Conversation, October 4. https://theconversation.com/hugh-hefners-legacy-narrow-visions-of-sex-and-beauty-85083

Childress, Clayton, and Josée Johnston. 2017. “Canadian Economic Sociology: What Is It, and How Is It Distinct? Three Canadian Economic Sociologists Explain.” Accounts: ASA Economic Sociology Newsletter 16(3):25-32.

Johnston, Josée, Kate Cairns, and Shyon Baumann. 2017. “Using Consumer Culture to Teach Sociological Thinking.” Consume This! Blog of the ASA Section on Consumers & Consumption, January 4. https://asaconsumers.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/consume-this-using-consumer-culture-to-teach-sociological-thinking/