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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828576803321

Autore

Halkier Bente

Titolo

Consumption challenged : food in medialised everyday lives / / by Bente Halkier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010

ISBN

1-315-57375-X

1-317-16108-4

1-317-16107-6

1-282-65773-9

9786612657733

1-4094-1022-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Classificazione

44.21

Disciplina

394.1/209489

Soggetti

Food preferences

Food consumption - Social aspects

Consumer education - Social aspects

Food habits - Social aspects

Food - Social aspects - Denmark

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; 1 A Field of Challenged Consumption; 2 Analysing Challenged Consumption from a Practice Theoretical Perspective; 3 Dealing with Environmental Challenges; 4 Dealing with Food Risk Challenges; 5 Dealing with Challenges of Cooking from Scratch; 6 Dealing with Nutritional Challenges; 7 Concluding Consumption Challenged; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

With its innovative theoretical approach and rich empirical data relating particularly to the field of food consumption, Consumption Challenged will appeal not only to sociologists of consumption, risk and the environment, but also to policy makers and researchers in the fields of geography, communication, media, governance and social psychology.