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Waste matters : new perspectives of food and society

Title
Waste matters : new perspectives of food and society / edited by David Evans, Hugh Campbell and Anne Murcott.
Publication
Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, [2013]

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Additional Authors
  • Evans, David
  • Campbell, Hugh, 1964-
  • Murcott, Anne
Description
240 pages : illlustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
The sociological review monographs, 1467-954X ; v. 60
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A brief pre-history of food waste and the social sciences -- From risk to waste: global food waste regimes -- 'Waste? You mean by-products!' from bio-waste management to agro-ecology in Italian winemaking and beyond -- The performativity of food packaging: market devices, waste crisis and recycling -- Arbiters of waste: date labels, the consumer and knowing good, safe food -- Food, waste and safety: negotiating conflicting social anxieties into the practices of domestic provisioning -- Practising thrift at dinnertime: mealtime leftovers, sacrifice and family membership -- Food waste bins: bridging infrastructures and practices -- Eating from the bin: salmon heads, waste and the markets that make them -- Food waste in Australia: the freegan response -- A 'lasting transformation' of capitalist surplus: from food stocks to feedstocks -- The disposal of place: facing modernity in the kitchen-diner.
ISBN
  • 9781118394311
  • 1118394313
LCCN
2013015563
OCLC
  • ocn842307507
  • SCSB-1751352
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library