Waste Matters - New Perspectives on Food and Society

This book offers the first framing of potential social scienceapproaches to the compelling and yet hugely under-researched topicof food waste.

Shows how the profile of waste has suddenly increased as atopic of sociological relevance and extends these developments toanalyses of food
Conceptualises waste as a dynamic category and one that playsan important role in processes of cultural and economicorganisation
Brings together theoretical and empirical contributions from arange of disciplinary perspectives
Engages with food waste in a number of contexts and at avariety of scales
Explores issues such as the regulation and governance of foodsystems; the materiality of foodstuffs and associated technologies;the dynamics of social practices and what goes on in domestickitchens; the ways in which food and waste are circulated insocieties; dumpster diving and freeganism, and socio-technicalinnovations for waste reduction
Demonstrates how food waste is a useful lens through whichto tend to a number of contemporary issues within sociology andsocial theory

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. A brief pre-history of food waste and the social sciences (David Evans, Hugh Campbell and Anne Murcott)

2. From risk to waste: global food waste regimes (Zsuzsa Gille)

3. 'Waste? You mean by-products!' From bio-waste management to agro-ecology in Italian winemaking and beyond (Anna Krzywoszynska)

4. The performativity of food packaging: market devices, waste crisis and recycling (Gay Hawkins)

5. Arbiters of waste: date labels, the consumer and knowing good, safe food (Richard Milne)

6. Food, waste and safety: negotiating conflicting social anxieties into the practices of domestic provisioning (Matt Watson and Angela Meah)

7. Practising thrift at dinnertime: mealtime leftovers, sacrifice and family membership (Benedetta Cappellini and Elizabeth Parsons)

8. Food waste bins: bridging infrastructures and practices (Alan Metcalfe, Mark Riley, Stewart Barr, Terry Tudor, Guy Robinson and Steve Guilbert)

9. Eating from the bin: Salmon heads, waste and the markets that make them (Benjamin Coles and Lucius Hallett IV)

10. Food waste in Australia: the freegan response (Ferne Edwards and Dave Mercer)

11. A 'lasting transformation' of capitalist surplus: from food stocks to feedstocks (Martin O'Brien)

12. The disposal of place: facing modernity in the kitchen-diner (Rolland Munro)

Notes on contributors

Index

Info autore

David Evans is Lecturer in Sociology and Sustainable Consumption Institute Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.
Hugh Campbell is Professor of Sociology at the University of Otago, NZ.
Anne Murcott isProfessorial Research Associate at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, UK.

Riassunto

This book offers the first framing of potential social science approaches to the compelling and yet hugely under-researched topic of food waste.

Relazione

'This collection not only evinces rising concerns about food waste in our world today, but also contributes to a deeper understanding of the cultural, political and economic dimensions of its occurrence. From the intimate space of the domestic kitchen to the realm of public policy--from the management of peelings, best-before dates and leftovers to the disposal of food industry by-products and food packaging--the contributors to this volume move beyond simple condemnations of 'needless waste' to shed new light on the many things that become 'food waste'; on how various categories of people conceive of and interact with these things as they are produced, transformed and consumed; and on what ultimately becomes of food waste, whether conceptually or materially. In so doing, the contributors to this collection lay the foundation for a more comprehensive analysis of food waste, as well as for more robust critical engagement with the multitude of societal problems to which its production may give rise.'
--Harry G. West, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London
'Food waste matters morally and politically, yet it has been conspicuously absent from academic concern. This excellent collection rectifies that omission. It provides a clear vindication that waste matters to studies of food and that sociology matters to thinking about food waste. Read it, and you will never think of food in quite the same way again.'
--Professor Nicky Gregson, University of Durham
'Waste Matters draws our attention to crucially important issues that have been ignored by scholars for far too long. This sparkling collection is sure to become a foundational work for anyone working on the social side of sustainability.It provides a vital new perspective on the importance of waste at the crucial intersection of food, culture and the environment.'
--Richard Wilk, Provost's Professor of Anthropology and Food Studies, Indiana University

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Evans, David Campbell Evans, SOM
• Con la collaborazione di: Hug Campbell (Editore), Hugh Campbell (Editore), David Evans (Editore), Anne Murcott (Editore), SOM (Editore)
• Editore: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.07.2013
• EAN: 9781118394311
• ISBN: 978-1-118-39431-1
• Pagine: 250
• Serie: Sociological Review Monographs; Sociological Review Monographs
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Analisi delle strutture sociali