Food waste : home consumption, material culture and everyday life
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Bibliographic Information
Food waste : home consumption, material culture and everyday life
(Materializing culture / series editors, Paul Gilroy, Michael Herzfeld and Daniel Miller)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-116) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches.
Using ethnographic material to explore global issues, Food Waste unearths the processes that lie behind the volume of food currently wasted by households and consumers. The author demonstrates how waste arises as a consequence of households negotiating the complex and contradictory demands of everyday life, explores the reasons why surplus food ends up in the bin, and considers innovative solutions to the problem.
Drawing inspiration from studies of consumption and material culture alongside social science perspectives on everyday life and the home, this lively yet scholarly book is ideal for students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines, along with anyone interested in understanding the food that we waste.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Social Life (and Death) of Food
1. Bringing Waste to the Table
2. Ordinary Domestic Practice: Conceptualizing, Researching, Representing
3. Contextualising Household Food Consumption
4. Anxiety, Routine and Over-provisioning
5. The Gap in Disposal: From Surplus to Excess?
6. Bins and Things
7. Gifting, Re-use and Salvage
Conclusion: Living with Food, Reducing Waste
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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