Over the last 50 years, conventional fossil-based plastics have become an integral part of
our everyday lives. Apart from their low production costs, this is due to a number of their …

The theoretical debates in sociology have highlighted the strengths, but also the limitations
of perspectives building on, anthropocentrism, essentialism, or structural determinism. One …

Established and emerging alternative food networks (AFNs) are providing developments to
circular economy within the Australian urban food system. In identifying and evaluating …

The aim of this paper is to advance our understanding of the complex material arrangements
involved in the formation of AFNs by applying the concept of market infrastructure and …

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the office and warehouse of an organic
wholesaler in Germany, this article presents a trans-sequential analysis of an innovation that …

While packaging-free stores are in the uptake, single-use packaging remains a constitutive
element in self-service supermarkets. Portraying packaging as an actor in workplace …

This article analyses interdependencies in the agri-food system; it focuses on the
relationships between agri-supply and agricultural production markets, based on a case …

The aim of this article is to show the relevance of the sociology of market agencements (an
off shoot of actor–network theory) for studying the creation of alternative agri-food networks …

Agriculture is a serious contributor to pollution and other environmental harms, making it an
important site of action for the development of environmentally friendly products and …

This paper explores the practices that have evolved between a global food retailer and a
leading charitable surplus food redistributor to enable the utilization of surplus food in …