We outline the frameworks that shape and hold apart waste debates in and about the Global
North and Global South and that hinder analysis of flows between them. Typically, waste is …

This paper examines the assertion that individuals with seemingly high levels of commitment
to the environment at home may also be those engaged in less sustainable leisure and …

Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the
future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the …

The unprecedented scale of food waste in global food supply chains is attracting increasing
attention due to its environmental, social and economic impacts. Drawing on interviews with …

An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the
late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific …

This article offers a sociological analysis of household food waste and its starting point is a
critique of perspectives in which volumes of waste generation are used to infer the presence …

This article considers the relationships between consumption, the environment, and wider
sociological endeavour. The current vogue for applying theories of practice to the policy …

The'circular economy'paradigm is taking hold in the mobile phone sector as a solution to
increasing resource use. This paper explores three dimensions of the consumption of …

Two significant realms of social anxiety, visible in the discourses of media and public policy,
potentially pull practices of home food provisioning in conflicting directions. On the one …

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