Food Practices in Transition: Changing Food Consumption, Retail and Production in the Age of Reflexive Modernity

by Spaargaren; Gert

• ISBN13: 9780415880848
• ISBN10: 041588084X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This edited volume presents and reflects upon empirical evidence of 'sustainability'-induced and -related transition in food practices. The material collected in the various chapters contributes to our understanding of the ways in which ideas and preferences, sociotechnological developments and changes in the governance of food interact and become visible in practices of consumption, retail and production.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xi
List of Tables	p. xiii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Sustainability Transitions in Food Consumption, Retail and Production	p. 1
Transitions In Consumer Practices
Changing Governments, Kitchens, Supermarkets, Firms and Farms: The Governance of Transitions Between Societal Practices and Supply Systems	p. 35
Healthy, Safe and Sustainable: Consumers and the Public Debate on Food in Europe and the Netherlands Since 1945	p. 60
Beyond the Industrial Paradigm? Consumers and Trust in Food	p. 86
Political Consumerism and the Transition Towards a More Sustainable Food Regime: Looking Behind and Beyond the Organic Shelf	p. 107
Transitions In Retail
Green Consumption Practices and Emerging Sustainable Food Regimes: The Role Of Consumers	p. 131
Restructuring Food Supply: Sustainability and Supermarkets	p. 155
The Role of Regime Actors in Sustainability Transitions: An Application of the MLP Methodology in the Dutch Food Sector	p. 177
Transitions In Production Practices
Reshaping the Foodscape: The Role of Alternative Food Networks	p. 207
Reflexive Design for Sustainable Animal Husbandry: Mediating Between Niche and Regime	p. 229
Out of the Factory and Into the Fish Pond: Can Certification Transform Vietnamese Pangasius?	p. 257
Food Systems Under Pressure: Regulatory Instabilities and the Challenge of Sustainable Development	p. 291
Food Futures in the Making	p. 312
Contributors	p. 339
Index	p. 351
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