Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices

This collection explores degrowth in food systems, offering examples and possibilities for sustainable, localised, resilient, and healthy food systems. It critically examines food for degrowth in the household, collective, network, and activism spheres, addressing care, technology, indigenous perspectives, waste, circular economies, and commodification. It is of interest to students and scholars of critical food studies, sustainability studies, urban political ecology, geography, environmental studies, and urban design and planning.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 258 pages
Publication date: 30 May 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This groundbreaking collection delves into diverse geographical, practical, and theoretical applications of degrowth along the food chain. Degrowth opposes the relentless pursuit of growth and advocates for everyday practices that restrict socio-metabolic energy and material flows within the confines of our planet. The editors aim to chart the pathways for food for degrowth to establish itself as a prominent field of study.

A diverse array of international contributors presents a wealth of examples and possibilities to create more sustainable, localized, resilient, and healthy food systems through the principles of degrowth. Chapters are organized into sections that critically explore food for degrowth in various spheres, including households, collectives, networks, and broader activism and discourses. Key themes include expanding and deepening concepts of care in food provisioning and social contexts; critically evaluating appropriate technologies; appreciating and integrating indigenous perspectives; challenging notions of waste, circular economies, and commodification; and addressing the enduring impacts of market logic driven by growth.

This book holds immense appeal to students and scholars engaged in critical food studies, sustainability studies, urban political ecology, geography, environmental studies, such as environmental sociology, anthropology, ethnography, ecological economics, and urban design and planning. It offers valuable insights and perspectives that contribute to our understanding of the complexities and challenges associated with fostering sustainable and equitable food systems.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367650674