基本説明
Provides the first volume to explore potential sociological approaches to the important and yet hugely under-researched topic of food waste.
Full Description
This book offers the first framing of potential social science approaches to the compelling and yet hugely under-researched topic of food waste. Shows how the profile of waste has suddenly increased as a topic of sociological relevance and extends these developments to analyses of foodConceptualises waste as a dynamic category and one that plays an important role in processes of cultural and economic organisationBrings together theoretical and empirical contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectivesEngages with food waste in a number of contexts and at a variety of scalesExplores issues such as the regulation and governance of food systems; the materiality of foodstuffs and associated technologies; the dynamics of social practices and what goes on in domestic kitchens; the ways in which food and waste are circulated in societies; dumpster diving and freeganism, and socio-technical innovations for waste reductionDemonstrates how food waste is a useful lens through which to tend to a number of contemporary issues within sociology and social theory
Contents
Acknowledgements ixSeries editor's introduction 1Chris ShillingA brief pre-history of food waste and the social sciences 5David Evans, Hugh Campbell and Anne MurcottFrom risk to waste: global food waste regimes 27Zsuzsa Gille`Waste? You mean by-products!' From bio-waste management to agro-ecology in Italian winemaking and beyond 47Anna KrzywoszynskaThe performativity of food packaging: market devices, waste crisis and recycling 66Gay HawkinsArbitors of waste: date labels, the consumer and knowing good, safe food 84Richard MilneFood, waste and safety: negotiating conflicting social anxieties into the practices of domestic provisioning 102Matt Watson and Angela MeahPractising thrift at dinnertime: mealtime leftovers, sacrifice and family membership 121Benedetta Cappellini and Elizabeth ParsonsFood waste bins: bridging infrastructures and practices 135Alan Metcalfe, Mark Riley, Stewart Barr, Terry Tudor, Guy Robinson and Steve GuilbertEating from the bin: salmon heads, waste and the markets that make them 156Benjamin Coles and Lucius Hallett IVFood waste in Australia: the freegan response 174Ferne Edwards and Dave MercerA `lasting transformation' of capitalist surplus: from food stocks to feedstocks 192Martin O'BrienThe disposal of place: facing modernity in the kitchen-diner 212Rolland MunroNotes on contributors 232Index 236
