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Laura Shine
I study emerging food practices and how ideas about edibility evolve and adapt, with a specific focus on entomophagy – the consumption of insects – in non-traditional cultural contexts.
Laura Shine is a doctoral candidate in Concordia’s Humanities program, in the fields of food anthropology, food marketing and sensory studies. She investigates the changes in attitudes and behaviours towards novel foods, with a particular focus on entomophagy. She has served as strategic consultant on the board of insect start-ups and presented talks and workshops on eating bugs in schools and university settings. In 2017, she devised and taught an undergraduate course in Food and Culture in Concordia’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Her research has been supported by scholarships from the SSHRC and the FQRSC, and by a fellowship from the Luc Beauregard Centre of Excellence in Communications Research.
Discipline
Humanities (Food Anthropology, Food Marketing, Sensory Studies)
Languages
English, French, Spanish
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LAURA SHINE: How eating bugs challenge our ideas on edibility
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Nura Jabagi, Younes Medkour and Milan Valyear organized an interactive STEM event for Dawson College students. Read more
Laura's blog posts
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As a society, if we wish for more justice and fairer representation, it is our responsibility, collectively, to demand more of our media, and to contribute what we can to achieve a more balanced outlook. Read more -
Salty jujubes? Horsemeat balls? Baby formula? Mystery powders and drops? Read more -
Food is a means of communication, and one that says much more than it seems on the surface. Read more -
What did you have for breakfast? Cereal with milk? Toast and coffee? A fried egg? Likely not seasoned, sautéed beetle larvae. Read more -
Why do we decide that some plants are fit for the plate while others head straight to the compost pile? Can we rethink and expand some of the strict rules we create to define edibility? Read more