Beschreibung (Langtext)

This book offers the first framing of potential social scienceapproaches to the compelling and yet hugely under-researched topicof food waste.

Shows how the profile of waste has suddenly increased as atopic of sociological relevance and extends these developments toanalyses of food
Conceptualises waste as a dynamic category and one that playsan important role in processes of cultural and economicorganisation
Brings together theoretical and empirical contributions from arange of disciplinary perspectives
Engages with food waste in a number of contexts and at avariety of scales
Explores issues such as the regulation and governance of foodsystems; the materiality of foodstuffs and associated technologies;the dynamics of social practices and what goes on in domestickitchens; the ways in which food and waste are circulated insocieties; dumpster diving and freeganism, and socio-technicalinnovations for waste reduction
Demonstrates how food waste is a useful lens through whichto tend to a number of contemporary issues within sociology andsocial theory