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QUALITIES OF FOOD
Mark Harvey
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In this book, available for the first time in paperback, the complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists, geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgements about taste? How do such judgements come to be shared by groups of people? What social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality? How has dissatisfaction with the food system been expressed? what alternatives are thought to be possible? The multi-disciplinary analysis of this book explores many different ... Read more
In this book, available for the first time in paperback, the complexity and the significance of the foods we eat are analysed from a variety of perspectives, by sociologists, economists, geographers and anthropologists. Chapters address a number of intriguing questions: how do people make judgements about taste? How do such judgements come to be shared by groups of people? What social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality? How has dissatisfaction with the food system been expressed? what alternatives are thought to be possible? The multi-disciplinary analysis of this book explores many different ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
New Dynamics of Innovation and Competition
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719068553
SKU
V9780719068553
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About Mark Harvey
Mark Harvey is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition at the University of Manchester. Andrew McMeekin is Research Fellow at the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competitionat the University of Manchester. Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology and Co-director of the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition at the University of ... Read more
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