Consuming Interests: The Social Provision of Foods

by Flynn,Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781857288995
• ISBN10: 1857288998
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Blending critical theory, empirical research and policy, Consuming Interests provides a topical and interdisciplinary exploration into the nature of food provision, policy and regulation.

Author Biography

Terry Marsden is Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning at Cardiff University. Andrew Flynn is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Planning at Cardiff University. Michelle Harrison is a researcher and consultant at The Henley Centre in London.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Preface	ix
List of abbreviations	xiii
Introduction: regulation, retailing and consumption: deregulating states and concerned consumers	1	(10)
PART I Concepts and framework	11	(46)
Food policy and regulation	13	(11)
Restructuring and retailing	24	(18)
Citizenship, consumption and food rights	42	(15)
PART II National strategies	57	(48)
Food consumers: the limits of formal and collective representation	59	(14)
The retailers: the emergence of retailer-led food governance	73	(12)
Evolving models of food regulation	85	(20)
PART III Local strategies	105	(97)
Local retail-consumption spaces and hierarchies	107	(26)
The nationalisation of food regulation: coping with space	133	(14)
The local regulatory interface: enforcement practice on the ground	147	(30)
Conclusions: retailing, regulation and consumption	177	(25)
Appendix: the social research methods employed in the study	202	(5)
Bibliography	207	(6)
Index	213