Jennifer Sumner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Sumner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Sumner |
| SIGNATURE | SUMNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0157-6020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Could an Ecosystem Perspective Support the Creation of a Nonprofit Food System? A Theoretical Exploration of the Possibilities
Although food has been designated a human right, most countries do not provide the means for their citizens to exercise that right. As a result, food is treated as a commodity and sold for a profit to those who can afford it, leaving millions of people undernourished as food prices rise. One solution to this problem is the establishment of a nonprofit food system. A daunting prospect—how could this be carried out? One potentially useful approach …
Public-Private Partnership for Prevention and Management of Chronic Diseases in Singapore
Background: The burden of chronic care has been increasing in Singapore with approximately 1 in 4 Singaporeans aged 40 years and above living with at least one chronic condition (diabetes, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol and stroke) in 2023. To effectively address the growing burden of chronic care in Singapore, a collaborative approach involving key stakeholders is crucial. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) play a crucial role in ad…
Slow cooked
This lively autobiography details Marion Nestle’s life-long engagement with food, particularly the tumultuous politics that inevitably accompany this central aspect of human life. As the founder of the interdiscipline of food studies, she describes her early life in academia, her work with the federal government and her appointment as a professor at New York University (NYU). Food studies scholars and practitioners will be fascinated by her insid…
Mental health and resilience after the covid-19 pandemic
Our study joins a body of work measuring the longitudinal effects of COVID-19 on population mental health and resilience. While, the magnitude of the effect related to resilience decline is small, our findings indicate that particular attention should be given to ongoing population surveillance, with the aim of maintaining good health and well-being
Implementing an Integrated Generalist-Led Inpatient Care Model
Overall, IGH provided better integrated, team-based care. The model challenged traditional team structures and empowered staff to expand their roles and responsibilities. Policymakers could consider the IGH model a successful approach for integrating services across the care continuum
Understanding inpatient acuity grading in hospitalised patients in an integrated care model
Background: An integrated care model was introduced at Alexandra hospital in 2018. A key feature of the model is the acuity grading system, wherein admitted patients are assigned to either L3(Acute), L2(subacute) and L1(non-acute and rehabilitation). Currently, acuity-grade is assigned based solely on the clinical judgement of the attending clinicians. The assigned acuity determines the frequency of parameter-monitoring and clinician contact time…
Critical food guidance
In this themed section, we argue that beyond health-related dietary goals for society, food guidance must also reflect the expanding public awareness and uncertainty about the complexities and vulnerabilities of the current food system. Increasingly influential issues include environmental change, agriculture-related pollution, food worker injustice, animal welfare, persistent household food insecurity, food waste, and fish stock depletion. No fo…
Critical perspectives on food guidance
Critical food guidance began as an inspiration, blossomed into a concept and then became a focal point for thinking about food system change. It will continue to evolve as we grapple with the complexities of the industrial food system and work toward alternative approaches. As a step in the evolution of a multi-dimensional approach to food, this themed issue asks three basic questions: critical guidance for what, for whom, and by whom? While enga…
Reflecting on food pedagogies in Canada
The original deadline for submissions for this special issue was March 1, 2020, just days before the destabilizing and disorienting first wave of pandemic-related shutdowns in many parts of Canada. The (r)evolution in food systems pedagogy we were hoping to document and celebrate was promptly preempted by an abrupt transition to virtual learning. In an instant, teachers and learners alike were attending to a pedagogical revolution of another kind…
Volume and Intensity of Stepping Activity and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in a Multi-ethnic Asian Population
The health benefits of objectively measured physical activity volume versus intensity have rarely been studied, particularly in non-western populations. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between cardiometabolic risk factors and stepping activity including; volume (step count), intensity (cadence) or inactivity (zero-steps/minute/day), in a multi-ethnic Asian population. Participants clinical data was collected at baseline a…
Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison
In this article, we conjoin two long‐standing lines of inquiry in criminology—the study of prison life and the study of sexual assault—by using original qualitative and quantitative data from 315 transgender women incarcerated in 27 California men's prisons. In so doing, we advance an analysis of the factors and processes that shape their experience of sexual victimization in prison. The results of qualitative analysis of 198 reported incidents o…
Transitioning to Social Justice
Stepping volume and intensity patterns in a multi-ethnic urban Asian population
Greater promotion of brisk walking is required in light of the low step volume and pace observed in this multi-ethnic Asian population. Ethnic differences in stepping activity were also identified which indicates a need for targeted ethnic specific health promotion interventions
Imagining the possibilities – food, leisure and the future of eating
In their book entitled How much is enough? Money and the good life, Skidelsky and Skidelsky (2012) discuss what constitutes the good life and make the following observation: A life without leisure
Community-Supported Learning
Practicums are a form of adult education that moves the post-secondary institution beyond the classroom and into the community. As adult learning experiences, they are unparalleled, combining the resources of the academy with the opportunities of the wider world. This paper will explore the links between adult education and post-secondary institutions through the phenomenon of the practicum. Using a tripartite lens of social, experiential and wor…
Negotiating Imperfect Humanity in the Danish Penal System
American prison experts are increasingly looking to Europe, and especially to Nordic countries, for examples of a better prison system. In 2014, a retired New York State Prison warden visited Norway’s Halden prison, and a video of the warden’s shock at seeing the tools and knives to which prisoners had access went viral on the Internet in the United States (Sterbenz 2014). In 2015, the Vera Institute of Justice, an American think tank focused on …
Theoretical and empirical limits of Scandinavian Exceptionalism
Drawing on interviews with 76 prisoners, 47 prison staff, and 14 experts, we document lived experiences of punishment in the Danish prison context. We argue that, regardless of “humanizing” elements of normalization and humanity, prisoners and staff may experience the power of the carceral state in Denmark in ways similar to those under more obviously harsh confinement regimes, as exist in the United States and, to a lesser extent, in the United …
Local Food, Local Economy
In the push for globalization over the last few decades, the local has been sidelined-dismissed as irrelevant, parochial or behind the times. In the wake of this push, we are facing the negative consequences of this politicaleconomic phenomenon, including the consolidation of the food system in the hands of a few multinational corporations, long-distance supply chains that are vulnerable to environmental or political contingencies, faceless, plac…
Same Difference
This article examines the “dilemma of difference” transgender prisoners pose and face within a sex-segregated prison system organized around the pursuit of safety and security. Our analysis uses data from a study of the culture and experiences of transgender prisoners in four men's prisons. Using qualitative data from interviews with transgender prisoners, focus groups with prisoners, and focus groups with staff, our findings reveal a common cont…
The Effects of Stress and Social Support on Externalizing Behaviors Among Children in Military Families
Drawing on social support theory, this study examines the main and interactive effects of parental perceived stress and social support on externalizing behaviors in military youth. Findings reveal that not only do social support and stress affect the conduct of military children, but social support also moderately buffers the effects of parental stress. Given the increasing distance between military and American culture, more generally, this rese…
Cultivating Alliances
Although social movements can lose their way in neoliberal times, building alliances can help them to leverage their strengths and overcome their weaknesses, thus avoiding co-optation and “mission drift.” One example of this strategy can be found within the co-operative movement: the Local Organic Food Co-ops Network in Ontario. A pilot study of six co-operatives in this organization reveals that they cultivate alliances in four ways: among membe…
Reading the world
In the field of adult education, literacy is a contested concept, so it is not surprising that terms like food literacy are also highly debated. While some associate food literacy with individual food shopping and preparation, others look to it as a means to engage with larger issues of global import. Given that food literacy is a fairly new term, its meaning remains fluid as various stakeholders manoeuvre to control its meaning and thus mould po…
Lost in Translation
Serving Social Justice
Food is a source of sustenance, a cause for celebration, an inducement to temptation, a vehicle for power, an indicator of well-being, a catalyst for change and, above all, a life good. Along with other life goods such as potable water, clean air, adequate shelter and protective clothing, food is something we cannot live without. The global corporate food system, however, allows 800 million to go hungry, while an even larger number of people grow…
Organic Solutions? Gender and Organic Farming in the Age of Industrial Agriculture
The negative impacts of industrial agriculture on rural areas have been well documented. The loss of family farms, the exhaustion of soil, the pollution of groundwater and rivers, and the collapse
Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison
In this article, we conjoin two long‐standing lines of inquiry in criminology—the study of prison life and the study of sexual assault—by using original qualitative and quantitative data from 315 transgender women incarcerated in 27 California men's prisons. In so doing, we advance an analysis of the factors and processes that shape their experience of sexual victimization in prison. The results of qualitative analysis of 198 reported incidents o…
Theoretical and empirical limits of Scandinavian Exceptionalism
Drawing on interviews with 76 prisoners, 47 prison staff, and 14 experts, we document lived experiences of punishment in the Danish prison context. We argue that, regardless of “humanizing” elements of normalization and humanity, prisoners and staff may experience the power of the carceral state in Denmark in ways similar to those under more obviously harsh confinement regimes, as exist in the United States and, to a lesser extent, in the United …
Organic Solutions? Gender and Organic Farming in the Age of Industrial Agriculture
The negative impacts of industrial agriculture on rural areas have been well documented. The loss of family farms, the exhaustion of soil, the pollution of groundwater and rivers, and the collapse
Same Difference
This article examines the “dilemma of difference” transgender prisoners pose and face within a sex-segregated prison system organized around the pursuit of safety and security. Our analysis uses data from a study of the culture and experiences of transgender prisoners in four men's prisons. Using qualitative data from interviews with transgender prisoners, focus groups with prisoners, and focus groups with staff, our findings reveal a common cont…
Lost in Translation
Serving Social Justice
Food is a source of sustenance, a cause for celebration, an inducement to temptation, a vehicle for power, an indicator of well-being, a catalyst for change and, above all, a life good. Along with other life goods such as potable water, clean air, adequate shelter and protective clothing, food is something we cannot live without. The global corporate food system, however, allows 800 million to go hungry, while an even larger number of people grow…
Value Wars in the New Periphery
Protecting and promoting indigenous knowledge
Given today's pressing environmental issues, environmental adult educators can help us learn to live more sustainably. One of the models for more sustainable ways of life is organic agriculture, based in a knowledge system that works with nature, not against it. In order to understand this knowledge, we need to frame it in a way that captures all its intricate nuances. At first glance, organic farmers' knowledge seems to fit well within Habermas'…
The Effects of Stress and Social Support on Externalizing Behaviors Among Children in Military Families
Drawing on social support theory, this study examines the main and interactive effects of parental perceived stress and social support on externalizing behaviors in military youth. Findings reveal that not only do social support and stress affect the conduct of military children, but social support also moderately buffers the effects of parental stress. Given the increasing distance between military and American culture, more generally, this rese…
Reading the world
In the field of adult education, literacy is a contested concept, so it is not surprising that terms like food literacy are also highly debated. While some associate food literacy with individual food shopping and preparation, others look to it as a means to engage with larger issues of global import. Given that food literacy is a fairly new term, its meaning remains fluid as various stakeholders manoeuvre to control its meaning and thus mould po…
Sustainability and the Civil Commons
Often used but little understood, the word ‘sustainability’ is potent in its ability to evoke a better world based on economic, social, and environmental justice. The concept of sustainability, however, has been strikingly under-theorized. Sustainability and the Civil Commons provides what has been lacking since the publication of the Brundtland Report – a firm foundation and a clear vision of alternatives.Using rural communities as her reference…
Value Wars in the New Periphery
From Academic Imperialism to the Civil Commons
Protecting and promoting indigenous knowledge
Given today's pressing environmental issues, environmental adult educators can help us learn to live more sustainably. One of the models for more sustainable ways of life is organic agriculture, based in a knowledge system that works with nature, not against it. In order to understand this knowledge, we need to frame it in a way that captures all its intricate nuances. At first glance, organic farmers' knowledge seems to fit well within Habermas'…
Serving Social Justice
Food is a source of sustenance, a cause for celebration, an inducement to temptation, a vehicle for power, an indicator of well-being, a catalyst for change and, above all, a life good. Along with other life goods such as potable water, clean air, adequate shelter and protective clothing, food is something we cannot live without. The global corporate food system, however, allows 800 million to go hungry, while an even larger number of people grow…
Organic Solutions? Gender and Organic Farming in the Age of Industrial Agriculture
The negative impacts of industrial agriculture on rural areas have been well documented. The loss of family farms, the exhaustion of soil, the pollution of groundwater and rivers, and the collapse
Cultivating Alliances
Although social movements can lose their way in neoliberal times, building alliances can help them to leverage their strengths and overcome their weaknesses, thus avoiding co-optation and “mission drift.” One example of this strategy can be found within the co-operative movement: the Local Organic Food Co-ops Network in Ontario. A pilot study of six co-operatives in this organization reveals that they cultivate alliances in four ways: among membe…
Reading the world
In the field of adult education, literacy is a contested concept, so it is not surprising that terms like food literacy are also highly debated. While some associate food literacy with individual food shopping and preparation, others look to it as a means to engage with larger issues of global import. Given that food literacy is a fairly new term, its meaning remains fluid as various stakeholders manoeuvre to control its meaning and thus mould po…
Lost in Translation
Local Food, Local Economy
In the push for globalization over the last few decades, the local has been sidelined-dismissed as irrelevant, parochial or behind the times. In the wake of this push, we are facing the negative consequences of this politicaleconomic phenomenon, including the consolidation of the food system in the hands of a few multinational corporations, long-distance supply chains that are vulnerable to environmental or political contingencies, faceless, plac…
Same Difference
This article examines the “dilemma of difference” transgender prisoners pose and face within a sex-segregated prison system organized around the pursuit of safety and security. Our analysis uses data from a study of the culture and experiences of transgender prisoners in four men's prisons. Using qualitative data from interviews with transgender prisoners, focus groups with prisoners, and focus groups with staff, our findings reveal a common cont…
The Effects of Stress and Social Support on Externalizing Behaviors Among Children in Military Families
Drawing on social support theory, this study examines the main and interactive effects of parental perceived stress and social support on externalizing behaviors in military youth. Findings reveal that not only do social support and stress affect the conduct of military children, but social support also moderately buffers the effects of parental stress. Given the increasing distance between military and American culture, more generally, this rese…
Negotiating Imperfect Humanity in the Danish Penal System
American prison experts are increasingly looking to Europe, and especially to Nordic countries, for examples of a better prison system. In 2014, a retired New York State Prison warden visited Norway’s Halden prison, and a video of the warden’s shock at seeing the tools and knives to which prisoners had access went viral on the Internet in the United States (Sterbenz 2014). In 2015, the Vera Institute of Justice, an American think tank focused on …
Theoretical and empirical limits of Scandinavian Exceptionalism
Drawing on interviews with 76 prisoners, 47 prison staff, and 14 experts, we document lived experiences of punishment in the Danish prison context. We argue that, regardless of “humanizing” elements of normalization and humanity, prisoners and staff may experience the power of the carceral state in Denmark in ways similar to those under more obviously harsh confinement regimes, as exist in the United States and, to a lesser extent, in the United …
Transitioning to Social Justice
Stepping volume and intensity patterns in a multi-ethnic urban Asian population
Greater promotion of brisk walking is required in light of the low step volume and pace observed in this multi-ethnic Asian population. Ethnic differences in stepping activity were also identified which indicates a need for targeted ethnic specific health promotion interventions
Imagining the possibilities – food, leisure and the future of eating
In their book entitled How much is enough? Money and the good life, Skidelsky and Skidelsky (2012) discuss what constitutes the good life and make the following observation: A life without leisure
Community-Supported Learning
Practicums are a form of adult education that moves the post-secondary institution beyond the classroom and into the community. As adult learning experiences, they are unparalleled, combining the resources of the academy with the opportunities of the wider world. This paper will explore the links between adult education and post-secondary institutions through the phenomenon of the practicum. Using a tripartite lens of social, experiential and wor…
Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison
In this article, we conjoin two long‐standing lines of inquiry in criminology—the study of prison life and the study of sexual assault—by using original qualitative and quantitative data from 315 transgender women incarcerated in 27 California men's prisons. In so doing, we advance an analysis of the factors and processes that shape their experience of sexual victimization in prison. The results of qualitative analysis of 198 reported incidents o…
Volume and Intensity of Stepping Activity and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in a Multi-ethnic Asian Population
The health benefits of objectively measured physical activity volume versus intensity have rarely been studied, particularly in non-western populations. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between cardiometabolic risk factors and stepping activity including; volume (step count), intensity (cadence) or inactivity (zero-steps/minute/day), in a multi-ethnic Asian population. Participants clinical data was collected at baseline a…
Reflecting on food pedagogies in Canada
The original deadline for submissions for this special issue was March 1, 2020, just days before the destabilizing and disorienting first wave of pandemic-related shutdowns in many parts of Canada. The (r)evolution in food systems pedagogy we were hoping to document and celebrate was promptly preempted by an abrupt transition to virtual learning. In an instant, teachers and learners alike were attending to a pedagogical revolution of another kind…
Critical food guidance
In this themed section, we argue that beyond health-related dietary goals for society, food guidance must also reflect the expanding public awareness and uncertainty about the complexities and vulnerabilities of the current food system. Increasingly influential issues include environmental change, agriculture-related pollution, food worker injustice, animal welfare, persistent household food insecurity, food waste, and fish stock depletion. No fo…
Critical perspectives on food guidance
Critical food guidance began as an inspiration, blossomed into a concept and then became a focal point for thinking about food system change. It will continue to evolve as we grapple with the complexities of the industrial food system and work toward alternative approaches. As a step in the evolution of a multi-dimensional approach to food, this themed issue asks three basic questions: critical guidance for what, for whom, and by whom? While enga…
Slow cooked
This lively autobiography details Marion Nestle’s life-long engagement with food, particularly the tumultuous politics that inevitably accompany this central aspect of human life. As the founder of the interdiscipline of food studies, she describes her early life in academia, her work with the federal government and her appointment as a professor at New York University (NYU). Food studies scholars and practitioners will be fascinated by her insid…
Mental health and resilience after the covid-19 pandemic
Our study joins a body of work measuring the longitudinal effects of COVID-19 on population mental health and resilience. While, the magnitude of the effect related to resilience decline is small, our findings indicate that particular attention should be given to ongoing population surveillance, with the aim of maintaining good health and well-being
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