Taste, Waste and the New Materiality of Food

Anthropocentric thinking produces fractured ecological perspectives that can perpetuate destructive, wasteful behaviours. Learning to recognize the entangled nature of our everyday relationships with food can encourage ethical ecological thinking and lay the foundations for more sustainable lifestyles. This book analyses ethnographic data gathered from participants in Alternative Food Networks from farmers' markets to community gardens, agricultural shows and food redistribution services.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. An Appetiser: Eating, being and playing with convivial dignity
3. Introducing Taste
4. Growing a Taste for Togetherness
5. Taste In Shopping
6. Taste in Competition
7. Introducing Waste
8. Waste in the Home
9. Composting in the Home
10. Ugly Food and Food Waste Redistribution
11. New Grammars for the Anthropocene: Playful tinkering with convivial dignity

About the author

Bethaney Turner is Assistant Professor in International Studies at the University of Canberra, Australia

Product details

• Authors: Bethaney Turner
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2018
• EAN: 9781472487544
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-8754-4
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Critical Food Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Food & society, Science / Environmental Science, Social and cultural anthropology, Human Geography, Cultural studies: food and society, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Food Science / General