The DOI matches its Crossref record; 67 of the 68 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
A Brief Pre-History of Food Waste and the Social Sciences
Abstract
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.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.
Naegele, K. D., & Goffman, E. (1956) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.2307/2089106 · Cited by 26,049
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Goffman, E. (2023) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781003320609-59 · Cited by 17,564
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Boyd, W. E., Beck, U., & Shrader‐Frechette, K. (1993) · Economic Geography · doi:10.2307/143601 · Cited by 9,278
Bennett, J. F. (2010) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822391623 · Cited by 8,635
Douglas, M. (2003) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9780203361832 · Cited by 5,161
(2018) · Collected Fictions · doi:10.2307/j.ctt1bkm5kc.100 · Cited by 4,822
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Bennett, J. F. (2010) · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · Cited by 4,189
Europe and the People without History
Gran, P., & Wolf, E. R. (1984) · The History Teacher · doi:10.2307/493157 · Cited by 3,777
Douglas, M. (1966) · Cited by 2,247
Ingold, T. (2007) · Archaeological Dialogues · doi:10.1017/s1380203807002127 · Cited by 1,463
Research works printed but not linked: 18
- Anon., 1937, Economical Cookery: And Menus for Every Day of the Year
- Beecher C. E., 1873, Housekeeper and Healthkeeper
- Beeton I. M., 1899, Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book: New and Enlarged Edition
- Bennett J., 2007, New Left Review, 45, 133
- Clark J., 2010, The World Turned Inside Out: Waste in History and Culture
- Craig E., 1932, New Standard Cookery (Illustrated)
- Douglas J., 1970, Understanding Everyday Life
- Fearnley-Whittingstall J., 2010, The Ministry of Food
- Tenison Hanbury M., 1971, Leftover for Tomorrow
- Hawkins G., 2004, Waste and Culture: The Creation and Destruction of Value
- Jack F. B., 1925, Good Housekeeping Cookery Book
- Jones A., 2008, The Open University Household Waste Study: Key findings from 2008
- Laporte D., 1999, A History of Shit
- Morgan D., 1979, Merchants of Grain
- Rombauer I. S., 1931, The Joy of Cooking
- Rosin C., 2012, Food Systems Failure: The Global Food Crisis and the Future of Agriculture
- Scanlan J., 2005, On Garbage
- 2012, The Economist, 404, 49
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Schanes, K., Dobernig, K., & Gözet, B. (2018) · Journal of Cleaner Production · doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.030 · Cited by 1,365
Consumer-related food waste: causes and potential for action
Aschemann-Witzel, J., De Hooge, I., Amani, P., Bech-Larsen, T., & Oostindjer, M. (2015) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su7066457 · Cited by 910
“example of date labelling [59,60].”
Household food waste behaviour in EU-27 countries: a multilevel analysis
Secondi, L., Principato, L., & Laureti, T. (2015) · Food Policy · doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.07.007 · Cited by 529
Teigiserova, D. A., Hamelin, L., & Thomsen, M. (2020) · Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136033 · Cited by 461
Food waste paradox: antecedents of food disposal in low income households
Porpino, G., Parente, J., & Wansink, B. (2015) · International Journal of Consumer Studies · doi:10.1111/ijcs.12207 · Cited by 334
Metadata
- Authors
- Evans, D., Campbell, H., & Murcott, A.
- 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
- 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
- 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
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
