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Title:
Waste matters : new perspectives of food and society / edited by David Evans, Hugh Campbell and Anne Murcott.
Author:
Evans, David, 1981-

Campbell, Hugh, 1964-

Murcott, Anne.
Publication Information:
Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Call Number:
GN407 .W37 2013
ISBN:
9781118394311
Series:
The sociological review monographs, volume 60

Sociological review monograph ; 60.
Physical Description:
240 pages : illlustrations ; 23 cm.
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.
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