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Rewilding Food and the Self
This volume contributes to the return to nature movement that is very much in vogue in contemporary European societies, by examining the place of food and eating in the "rewilding" process. It is divided into three parts, each of which consists of conversations between social scientists, with fieldwork collected from across Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Norway and Switzerland. The first part focuses on the ways in which the hunter-gatherer livelihood has been transformed into a resilient, simpler and ecological way of life. It is dedicated to hunting and identifies the contexts in which large wild game meat is consumed and the reasons why such a product is still valued today. The second p...
Identity at Work
This book investigates the interface of ethnicity with occupation, empirically observed in luxury international hotels in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It employs the two main disciplines of anthropology and sociology in order to understand the root causes and meaning of ethnicity at work within the hospitality industry sector. More specifically, it observes social change in a multi-ethnic and non-secular society through an ethnographic study located in a micro organisation: the Grand Hotel. At the individual level, this research shows how identity shifts and transformation can be mediated through the consumption and manipulation of food at the workplace. In addition, it combines an ambitious theo...
Eating Traditional Food
Due to its centrality in human activities, food is a meaningful object that necessarily participates in any cultural, social and ideological construction and its qualification as 'traditional' is a politically laden value. This book demonstrates that traditionality as attributed to foods goes beyond the notions of heritage and authenticity under which it is commonly formulated. Through a series of case studies from a global range of cultural and geographical areas, the book explores a variety of contexts to reveal the complexity behind the attribution of the term 'traditional' to food. In particular, the volume demonstrates that the definitions put forward by programmes such as TRUEFOOD and ...
Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand
This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Auckland’s rapidly expanding urban periphery, combined with comparative case studies from California in the USA and Victoria in Australia, the book examines how the profit-making strategies of property developers and landowners drastically reshapes work and life at the edge of cities. With a significant portion of the world's croplands lying adjacent to cities, the accelerating pace of urban sprawl across the planet places unprecedented pressure on the productivity and even existence of these vital food bowl regions. The book e...
Food Loss and Waste Policy
This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted. Investigating food waste and loss under an interdisciplinary lens, the contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches, including quantitative and qualitative techniques, drawing on in-depth case studies and action research. The volume is organised into four parts: Understanding Food Loss and Waste, International Programmes, National Policies and Local Initiatives. The first part introduces the reader to the concept of food loss and waste, how it can be measured, its causes and consequences, and how it can be red...
Critical Mapping for Sustainable Food Design
This book introduces critical mapping as a problematizing, reflective approach for analyzing systemic societal problems like food, scoping out existing solutions, and finding opportunities for sustainable design intervention. This book puts forth a framework entitled "wicked solutions" that can be applied to determine issues that designers should address to make real differences in the world and yield sustainable change. The book assesses the current role of design in attaining food security in a sustainable, equitable, and just manner. Accomplishing this goal is not simple; if it was, it would not be called a wicked problem. But this book shows how a particular repertoire of design tools ca...
Studying food and eaters
Multidisciplinary work which presents research methods and reflections on food (consumption, preparation, food intake), when eaters are placed at the center of the study. The book has 15 chapters. Each chapter is dedicated to a method. It presents its origin and its history and details the questions it answers, addresses its limitations, as well as its contribution to an integrated approach to food and eaters. A concrete application case is also systematically proposed.
Promesses alimentaires
La sociologie de l'alimentation, sans doute parce qu'elle a été longtemps structurée autour des questions de goût, de territoire, de patrimoine et qu'elle explore la question de la commensalité, a privilégié dans sa problématisation de l'acte alimentaire la ligne directrice de la continuité. Aussi, en proposant dans cet ouvrage collectif de soumettre l'alimentation au cadre d'analyse de la promesse, nous souhaitions opérer un pas de côté problématique susceptible de mieux rendre compte de l'articulation entre le temps long de l'histoire de l'alimentation, sa dimension anthropologique et les effets de rupture engendrés par certaines promesses. L'objectif était double : d'une pa...
UTOPIE SAUVAGE
Nous vivons presque tous en ville et pourtant chacun cherche à sa façon à redevenir " sauvage " : rêve d'une vie à la campagne, de congés au vert, de forêts urbaines. La perspective d'un effondrement, qu'il soit écologique ou pandémique, attise ce besoin d'ensauvagement. Idéalisée, la nature devient à la fois quête, refuge et solution face à une société de consommation qui manque de sens et détruit la planète. Le retour à la terre et à une vie plus autonome n'est pas nouveau ; ce qui est inédit, c'est l'intensification du phénomène et sa démocratisation. Sébastien Dalgalarrondo et Tristan Fournier sont sociologues. Habitants des villes, ils investissent, le temps des...
Gentrifications
Offering an original discussion of the gentrification phenomenon in Europe, this book provides new theoretical insights into classical works on the subject. Using a thorough analysis of the diversity of the forms, places and actors of gentrification in an attempt to isolate its ‘DNA’, the book addresses the place of social groups in cities, their competition over the appropriation of space, the infrastructure unequally offered to them by economic and political actors and the stakes of everyday social relationships.
