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Date: 4/15/2026
Subject: HSR Special Issue: ‘Healthy’ Food Practices: Moving Beyond Healthy Choices and Food Systems
From: TASA



Health Sociology Review

Health Sociology Review

Special Issue

 

Guest Editors 

Natalie Jovanovski & Bhavna Middha
Volume 35, Issue 1 (2026)

Dear ~~first_name~~, 
 
We are pleased to announce the publication of Health Sociology Review, Volume 35, Number 1 (March 2026).

This special issue, ‘Healthy’ Food Practices: Moving Beyond Healthy Choices and Food Systems, is guest edited by Natalie Jovanovski and Bhavna Middha.
 
All articles in this special issue are available here.

The issue brings together a rich collection of articles that examine food practices through diverse sociological and interdisciplinary lenses, moving beyond individualised notions of “healthy choices” to explore broader social, cultural, and structural dimensions of food.
 
Contents include:
 
Editorial
‘Healthy’ food practices: moving beyond healthy choices and food systems
Natalie Jovanovski and Bhavna Middha
 
Articles
Healthy eating in the platform age: online food delivery and middle-class modernity in Surabaya
Nadia Egalita and Tania Lewis
 
Understanding and disrupting nutrition-related (mis)information on social media using Bourdieu’s theory of practice
Natalie Jovanovski, Lauren Saling and Sharayah Carter
 
The paradox of knowledge and food practices: navigating the tension between healthy eating, nutrition knowledge, and everyday life routines among middle-class consumers in Kunming (China)
Coral Yu Han
 
The dispersed practice of trial and error: understanding adaptation, improvisation and change across food practices
Sarah Polkinghorne
 
Normal food practices: negotiating the interaction among norms, practices, and food environments
Christopher Mayes, Jane Williams and Angie Sassano
 
Sugar consumption in Aboriginal children explored from a social practice perspective
Amy Budrikis, Angela Durey, Dan McAullay, Paul Ward, Hanny Calache, Thierry Ng,
Roma Winmar and Linda Slack-Smith
 
Where the wild things are: examining the reflexive affectivity of wilderness on product marketing within industrialised systems
Caitlan McLean and Kristen Foley
 
We hope you enjoy this timely and thought-provoking collection.

Warm regards,
 
Katherine Kenny
Editor in Chief
Health Sociology Review

Editor in Chief
Health Sociology Review is an international peer-reviewed journal, which publishes high quality conceptual and empirical research in the sociology of health, illness and medicine.

Published three times per year, the journal prioritises original research papers, papers that advance theory and methodology in the field of health sociology and special issues on matters of central importance to health sociology and related fields.

Review articles are published upon occasion, but must extend conceptual understanding in health sociology, not just review what is known about a particular topic.
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