The Sociological Review Monographs 60/2 : Waste Matters: New Perspectives on Food and Society Paperback / softback
Edited by SOM
Part of the The Sociological Review Monographs series
Paperback / softback
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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
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication Date:01/01/0001
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- ISBN:9781118394311
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:250 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication Date:01/01/0001
- Category:
- ISBN:9781118394311
