Taste, waste and the new materiality of food /
"Anthropocentric thinking produces fractured ecological perspectives that can perpetuate destructive, wasteful behaviours. Learning to recognise the entangled nature of our everyday relationships with food can encourage ethical ecological thinking and lay the foundations for more sustainable li...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
[2019]
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| Series: | Critical food studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Anthropocentric thinking produces fractured ecological perspectives that can perpetuate destructive, wasteful behaviours. Learning to recognise the entangled nature of our everyday relationships with food can encourage ethical ecological thinking and lay the foundations for more sustainable lifestyles. This book analyses ethnographic data gathered from participants in Alternative Food Networks from farmers' markets to community gardens, agricultural shows and food redistribution services. Drawing on theoretical insights from political ecology, eco-feminism, ecological humanities, human geography and critical food studies, the author demonstrates the sticky and enduring nature of anthropocentric discourses. Chapters in this book experiment with alternative grammars to support and amplify ecologically attuned practices of human and more-than-human togetherness. In times of increasing climate variability, this book calls for alternative ontologies and world-making practices centred on food which encourage agility and adaptability and are shown to be enacted through playful tinkering guided by an ethic of convivial dignity. This innovative book offers a valuable insight into food networks and sustainability which will be useful core reading for courses focusing on critical food studies, food ecology and environmental studies."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 238 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780429424502 0429424507 9780429755187 042975518X 9780429755200 0429755201 9780429755194 0429755198 |