Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, C138 Clark, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1784, USA.
Appetite. 2021 Nov 1;166:105478. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105478. Epub 2021 Jun 25.
This paper challenges conventional understandings of how we think about consumer food waste by investigating the food purchasing/wasting views and practices of 102 Colorado (USA) residents (67 households). The methods used in this study included the triangulation of surveys, self-reported pictures of food waste and related daily reports over a two-week period, and focus groups. Understanding who is, and what are, driving food waste is important if the aim is to create policy interventions that meaningfully mitigate loss. This paper approaches concepts like consumer sovereignty and agency through a non-essentialist lens, which is to say it repositions food waste as a mode of ordering as opposed to an outcome of discrete, self-evident products-e.g., attitudes, autonomous consumers. Doing this opens the analysis up to connections that might otherwise go unrecognized when those categories are assumed to be absolute and obvious. After presenting numerical data gleaned from online surveys, findings are organized around the following themes: humans-as-assemblage; storage devices-as-assemblage; and mobility-as-assemblage. The paper concludes synthesizing these themes while suggesting interventions mindful of these fluid socio-material coming-togethers.
本文通过调查 102 名科罗拉多州（美国）居民（67 户家庭）的食品购买/浪费观点和行为，挑战了我们对消费者食物浪费的传统理解。本研究采用的方法包括调查的三角测量、两周内自我报告的食物浪费图片和相关的日常报告，以及焦点小组。如果目的是制定有意义地减少损失的政策干预措施，那么了解谁是导致食物浪费的原因以及是什么导致食物浪费是很重要的。本文通过非本质主义的视角来探讨消费者主权和能动性等概念，也就是说，它将食物浪费重新定位为一种秩序模式，而不是离散、不言而喻的产品的结果，例如态度、自主消费者。这样做可以将分析扩展到连接，否则当这些类别被认为是绝对和明显的时候，这些连接可能会被忽视。在呈现了从在线调查中收集的数值数据之后，研究结果围绕以下主题进行了组织：人类-作为集合体；储存设备-作为集合体；以及移动性-作为集合体。本文通过综合这些主题，同时提出了考虑到这些流动的社会物质聚合的干预措施。
