Dr Jessica Loyer

Journal Articles

• Phillipov, M., Luckman, S., & Loyer, J. (2023). Agile producers and consumer-saviours: Discourses of resilience and responsibility in Australian media coverage of artisanal food and craft. Media International Australia, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X231213448
• Loyer, J., Whittaker, A. L., Buddle, E. A., & Ankeny, R. A. (2020). A review of legal regulation of religious slaughter in Australia: Failure to regulate or a regulatory fail? Animals, 10(9), 1530. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10091530 
• Phillipov, M., & Loyer, J. (2019). In the wake of the supermarket ‘milk wars’: Media, farmers and the power of pastoral sentimentality. Discourse, Context & Media, 32, 100346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2019.100346
• Loyer, J., & Knight, C. (2018). Selling the ‘Inca superfood’: Nutritional primitivism in superfoods books and maca marketing. Food, Culture & Society, 21(4), 449–467. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2018.1480645
• Loyer, J. (2017). The cranberry as food, health food, and superfood: Challenging or maintaining hegemonic nutrition? Graduate Journal of Food Studies, 4(2).
• Loyer, J. (2015). Review of Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods by Aya Hirata Kimura. Graduate Journal of Food Studies, 2(2), 47–48.

Edited Book Chapters

• Loyer, J. (2019). Superfoods. In D. M. Kaplan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (pp. 2269–2275). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_574-1
• Loyer, J. (2016). Communicating superfoods: A case study of maca packaging. In M. McWilliams (Ed.), Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2015 (pp. 236–246). Prospect Books.
• Loyer, J. (2014). Functional foods as commodities. In P. B. Thompson & D. M. Kaplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (pp. 1064–1072). Springer. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1179-9_400

Reports

• Loyer, J. (2020). A benefit or hindrance? The impact of globalisation on industrial agricultural expansion and animal welfare in low middle income countries reliant on halal production practices. Tiny Beams Burning Questions Initiative.
• Loyer, J. (2018). Public attitudes towards foreign investment in Australian Agriculture. Virtue Australia Foundation.
• Beckett, E., Begley, A., Boland, M., Carter, A., Hinkley, T., Lassemillante, A.-C. M., Leahy, D., Loyer, J., Startck, C., Talati, Z., Willcox, J., & Winter, G. (2017). Rethinking food and nutrition science: Empowering food choices. Australian Academy of Science.

Public Media

• Loyer, J. (2016). Smoothies as talismans: The allure of superfoods and the dangers of nutritional primitivism. The Conversation.

Conference Activity

• Loyer, J. (2023). Towards a theory of ambiguous substances. Paper presented at Australasian Science and Technology Studies Inaugural Conference “Contributing to and with STS”, 17-18 July, Sydney.
• Loyer, J. (2023). How do we know good food? Superfood consumption work and the production of betweenness. Paper presented at 2023 Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS) [Virtual Conference], 31 May, Boston.
• Loyer, J. (2019). Between food and medicine: The cultural power of superfoods among Australian consumers. Paper presented at Critical Approaches to Superfoods Workshop, March, Indiana.
• Loyer, J. (2017). Having your smoothie and eating it too: Superfoods and the allure of the in-between. Keynote address presented at Superfood Symposium, November, Melbourne.
• Loyer, J. (2017). Superfoods, commodity racism, and indigenous intellectual property. Paper presented at Workshop on Food Labelling and Democratic Engagement in the Food System, September, Melbourne.
• Loyer, J. (2017). Does nutrition science (mis)inform our diets? Paper presented at Emerging Issues in Science and Society, July, Melbourne.
• Loyer, J. (2016). What makes a superfood super? The discursive construction of utopian edibles. Paper presented at Australian Symposium of Gastronomy, December, Melbourne.
• Loyer, J., & Buddle, E. (2016). A ‘natural’ symbol: Nature, morality, and politics in online raw milk advocacy communities. Paper presented at Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream, July, Hobart.
• Loyer, J. (2016). What makes a superfood ‘super’? Examining the values behind superfood products and marketing. Paper presented at Wednesday Wrap Seminar Series, Centre of Research Excellence in Translating Nutritional Science to Good Health, Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, July, Adelaide.
• Loyer, J. (2016). Marketing Australian chia seed: Functional nutritionism meets nutritional primitivism. Paper presented at Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference, June, Toronto.
• Loyer, J. (2016). Nutritional primitivism and superfoods: Between commodification and critique. Paper presented at Australian Food, Society, and Culture Network Symposium, January, Sydney.
• Loyer, J. (2015). Communicating superfoods: A case study of maca packaging. Paper presented at Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, July, Oxford.
• Loyer, J. (2014). Jewish sabbath cooking in Australia: One pot, many meanings. Paper presented at Australian Association of Jewish Studies Conference, February, Adelaide.
• Loyer, J. (2014). Contested definitions of sustainability in the Massachusetts cranberry industry. Paper presented at International Food Studies Conference, February, Adelaide.

Theses

• Loyer, J. (2016). The social lives of superfoods [PhD, School of Humanities]. University of Adelaide.
• Loyer, J. (2007). A pot of many meanings: The shifting shape and symbolism of Shabbat stew from the old world to the new [Master of Arts (Gastronomy)]. University of Adelaide.