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A Brief Pre-History of Food Waste and the Social Sciences

Evans, David, Campbell, Hugh, Murcott, Anne·2012·The Sociological Review
DOI 10.1111/1467-954x.12035
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Food waste is a compelling and yet hugely under-researched area of interest for social scientists. In order to account for this neglect and to situate the fledgling body of social science scholarship that is starting to engage with food waste, the analysis here does a number of things. It explores the theoretical tendencies that have underpinned the invisibility of waste to the sociological gaze alongside the historical transitions in global food relations that led to the disappearance of concerns about food scarcity – and with them, concerns about food waste – from cultural and political life. It also sketches out some of the processes through which waste has recently (re-)emerged as a priority in the realms of food policy and regulation, cultural politics and environmental debate. Particular attention is paid to the intellectual trajectories that have complemented food waste's rising profile in popular and policy imaginations to call forth sociological engagement with the issue. With this in place, the stage is set for the individual contributions to this Sociological Review Monograph – papers that engage with food waste in a number of contexts, at a variety of scales and from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Together they represent the first attempt collectively to frame potential sociological approaches to understanding food waste.

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Authors
Evans, D., Campbell, H., & Murcott, A.
ORCID
Venue
The Sociological Review
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2012-12
Volume
60
Issue
2_suppl
Pages
5-26
ISSN
  • 0038-0261 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-954X
DOI
10.1111/1467-954x.12035
OpenAlex
W1758569442
Cited by
139
References
68
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 10 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
FWCI
5.90
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • The Sociological Review (publishedVersion)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
  • Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
Keywords
food waste, food shortages, food policy, food regulation, cultural politics, environmental debate

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