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 food
* Conceptualises waste as a dynamic category and one that plays an important role in processes of cultural and economic organisation
* Brings together theoretical and empirical contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectives
* Engages with food waste in a number of contexts and at a variety of scales
* Explores 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 reduction
* Demonstrates how food waste is a useful lens through which to tend to a number of contemporary issues within sociology and social theory
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781118394311
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-118-39431-1
- Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.07.2013
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2013
- Serie: The Sociological Review Monographs
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 357 g
- Seiten: 250
- Format (B x H x T): 151 x 228 x 15 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit
- Spezielle Soziologie
- Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
- Interdisziplinäres
- Wissenschaften
- Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
- Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit
- Spezielle Soziologie
- Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
