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anthropology. Much of this work focuses on issues of social inequalities and critiques of food

movements (Guthman 2003; Parosecoli 2003; Winter 2003). While this scholarship tends to

have a global ambit – describing and making visible global food flows and their connections

with local communities (see Cook & Harrison 2007; Cook et al. 2006; Cook et al. 1998;

Kneafsey 2010; Allen 2010) – it often privileges the standpoint of the USA. Food studies

engage with the topic of sustainability. Sustainability appears within economic and human

geography literature about food production and consumption as seen in much of Ian Cook’s

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work on following . Sustainability is certainly implied in works about global food networks

(Bestor 2000; Probyn 2012; Benson & Fischer 2006; Freidberg 2003) and is considered in

critiques of alternative food movements (see above). Increasingly research is delving into

eco-labelling (see Blend & van Ravenswaay 1999; Johnston et al. 2001; Teisl 2002; Bear &

Eden 2008; Vandergeest et al. 2015). Sustainability has also recently found a place in work

relating to the sea. Fewer works directly analyse sustainability and tuna (see Barclay 2016;

Barclay & Epstein 2013; Hayward & Mosse 2012; Probyn, 2011, 2016; Campling 2007,

2008, 2012; Campling et al. 2007; Ponte 2012, Longo 2011; Longo & Clarke 2012; Miller &

Bush 2014).

The expanding field of environmental humanities attends to issues of environmental

loss, anthropocentric climate change, and injustices to human and more-than-human entities.

As an interdisciplinary field it brings together natural and social sciences, in a way that

unsettles both fields as it works to refigure concepts of nature and culture, and human

environment relationships and hierarchies. Thom van Dooren (2014) articulates the cultural,

technical and ecological entanglements in his account of species nearing the ‘edge of

extinction’. Kirksey and Helmreich (2010) propose a multispecies ethnography to research

more-than-human subjects and spaces. Environmental humanities is at the foreground of

interdisciplinary engagements with some of the most pressing environmental concerns of our

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