Books

Sumner, J., A. Chan, A. Luk & J. Quarter (eds.) (under review). Selling Social: Experiences of Social Enterprises with Social Procurement and Social Purchasing. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Koc, M., J. Sumner & A. Winson (eds.). 2021. Critical Perspectives in Food Studies (third edition).  Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Sumner, J. (ed.).  2016.  Learning, Food and Sustainability: Sites for Resistance a Change.  Palgrave/Macmillan.

Mair, H. & J. Sumner (eds.). 2015.  Leisure and Food.  New York: Routledge.

Sumner, J.  2007. Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Sumner, J., Tarhan, MD & McMurtry, JJ. 2019. Eating in place: Mapping alternative food procurement in Canadian Indigenous communities. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Deveopment (Special issue on Indigenous food sovereignty in North America), 9 (Supplement 2), pp. 239-250.

Sumner, J. & Lapalme, H. 2019. The public plate in the transnational cty: Tensions amog food procurement, global trade and local legislation. Canadian Food Studies, 6(1), pp. 22-42.

Sumner, J. 2018. Community-supported learning: Practicums, adult education and post-secondary institutions. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 64(2), pp. 97-108.

Sumner, J. 2016.  Waging the struggle for healthy eating: food environments, dietary regimes and Brazil's dietary guidelines.  Local Environment, 21(10), pp. 1230-1242.

Sumner, J. and C. Wever.  2015.  Cultivating alliances: the Local Organic Food Co-ops Network.  Candian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 6(2), 65-79.

Sumner, J. 2015.  Reading the world: food literacy and the potential for food system transformation.  Studies in the Education of Adults, 47(2), 9-22.

Sumner, J.  2013.  Food literacy and adult education: learning to read the world by eating.  Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 25(2), 79-92.

Sumner, J.  2013.  Eating as if it really mattered: teaching The Pedagogy of Food in the age of globalization.  Brock Education Journal – Special Issue: The Impact of Globalization for Adult Education and Higher Education,  22(2), 41-55.

Chapters in Books

Sumner, J. 2021. The commons and adult education.  In S.M. Brigham, R. McGray, and K. Jubas (eds.), Adult Education in Canada.  Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing.

Sumner, J. & Desjardins, E. 2021.  Critical food literacy.  In M. Koc, J. Sumner and A. Winson (eds.), Crtical Perspectives in Food Studies (third edition). Toronto: Oxford university Press.

Sumner, J. 2018. Sustainability as the civil commons: Laying the groundwork for sustainable agriculture. In D. Constance, M. Hatanaka and J. Konefal (Eds.), Contested sustainability discourses in agri-food systems. New York: Routledge, pp. 75-85.

Sumner, J. 2017. Conceptualizing sustainable food systems. In Koc, M., J. Sumner and A. Winson (eds.). Critical Perspectives in Food Studies, 2nd Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 320-331.

Sumner, J. 2016. Education for the commons. In Means, A.J., D.R. Ford and G.B. Slater (eds.). Educational Commons in Theory and Practice: Global Pedagogy and Politics. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, pp. 189-207.

Sumner, J. and C. Sanders. 2016. Taking the next steps toward envronmental sutainability: Implementing the Official Plan on Pelee Island. In L.K. Hallstrom, M.A. Beckie, G.T. Hvenegaard, K. Mundel (eds.), Sustainbility Planning and Collaboration in Rural Canada: Taking the Next Steps.  Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, pp. 199-215.

Sumner, J. and C. Wever.  2016.  Pedagogical Encounters: Critical Food Pedagogy and Transformative Learning in the School and Community.  In C. Anderson, J. Brady and C. Levkoe (eds.), Conversations in Food Studies: Transgressing Boundaries through Critical Inquiry.  Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, pp. 322-341.

Sumner, J.  2015.  Ways of Knowing the World: The Role of Knowledge in the Food/Place Nexus.  In K. Fitzpatrick and D. Willis (eds.), A Place-Based Perspective of Food in Society.  Palgrave/Macmillan Publishers, pp. 83-102.

Classens, M., McMurtry, JJ and Sumner, J.  2015.  Doing Markets Differently: The Case of FoodShare Toronto's Good Food Markets.  In J. Quarter, S. Ryan and A. Chan (eds.).  Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 215-235.

Sumner, J.  2015.  Learning to Eat with Attitude: Critical Food Pedagoges.  In E. Swan and R. Flowers (eds.), Food Pedagogies.  London: Ashgate, pp. 201-214.

Sumner, J.  2013.  Adult Education and Food: Eating as Praxis.  In T. Nesbit, S. Brigham, T. Gibb and N. Taber (eds.), Building on Crtical Traditons: Adult Education and Learning in Canada.  Toronto: Thompsn Educational Publishing Inc.