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Mustafa Koc

Mustafa Koç

Politics & Policy
DepartmentSociology (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Areas of Expertisefood studies; food writing; food on the web; food and films; cook books and national cuisines; ethnic and diasporic food cultures and identity; policy studies; food and agricultural policy; immigration policy; cultural studies; globalization and impacts of restructuring; global population movements and diasporas
https://www.torontomu.ca/sociology/people/faculty/mustafa-koc/

Mustafa Koc is a professor at the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. He received his BA at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, MA at University of Waterloo and PhD at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching interests involve food studies, food security, food policy, globalization and sociology of migration. He was among the founders of the Centre for Studies in Food Security, Food Secure Canada, and the Canadian Association for Food Studies. He has also been involved in various national and global debates on globalization, social change and development, food security, and peace.

Recent Publications

Akarcay, E., A. Satiroglu, and M. Koç (eds). 2020. Yemek ve Toplum (Food and Society): Special Issue of the Istanbul Universitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi, external link, opens in new window (external link)  40(1). 573pp.

Khakpour, M., R. Iqbal, N. GhulamHussain, R. Engler-Stringer, M. Koç, J. Garcea and  H. Vatanparast. 2019. Facilitators and Barriers toward Food Security of Afghan Refugees Residing in Karachi, Pakistan., external link, opens in new window (external link)  Ecology of Food and Nutrition 58(4): 317-334.

Koç, M. 2018. Food security discourse: Challenges for the 21st Century., external link, opens in new window (external link)  Global Dialogue 8(3): 38-39.

Koç, M., J. Sumner and T. Winson (eds). 2017. Critical Perspectives in Food Studies, external link, opens in new window (external link)  (2nd ed.). Don Mills: Oxford University Press. 

Co-author. 2017. The Case for a National Food Policy Council., external link, opens in new window (external link)  Report by the ad hoc Working Group on Food Policy Governance, submitted to the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Sept. 25.

Khakpour, M., L. Sadeghi, H. Jenzer, S. Martins, M. Farag, M. Koç, J. Garcea, C. Henry, R. Engler-Stringer and H. Vatanparast. 2017. The impact of soci-economic and cultural factors on refugee households’ food insecurity: a snapshot of the food security status of Afghan refugees in Switzerland., external link, opens in new window (external link)  The FASEB Journal 31(S1): 791-13.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2016 - Mojgan Fay; Major Research Paper: Recipes for belonging: The role of food in identity and membership

2011 - Sarah Hewitt; Major Research Paper: Intangible culinary heritage: France and Mexico's construction of symbolic closure on UNESCO's list of the intangible heritage

2009 - Javiera Quintana; Project-Paper: A Theoretical And Methodological Foundation For In My Mother's Kitchen

ComCult Teaching Activities

  • CC 8836 Selected Topics in Media and Culture - Our Toronto = Our Food