Consuming Interests

TRAMA

Addressing a significant but neglected topic, this book focuses on the social dimensions of food production, distribution and retailing. It examines retailing in recent years, where corporate retailers have expanded their powers over the food supply system and the social, political and moral concern about consumption has grown considerable. The authors expand and reinforce the idea that corporate retailing in Britain can only maintain its dominant market position through the exercise of political and social activities within national state and market structures.<P>The book also goes beyond the study of food choice per se to look at broader questions: Why does the out-of-town location and neo-classical design of your local Sainsburys matter? How can the state best regulate food provision given its priorities to de-regulate the economy but encourage the health of the nation? How are consumers best represented through state, market or interest group activities? Consuming Interests will be of interest to researchers and students of public policy, planning, food studies, sociology and human geography and to professionals in public policy and the food section.

NOTE EDITORE

Combining theory, research and policy Consuming Interests provides a topical interdisciplinary exploration into the nature of food provision, policy and regulation. The book provides a detailed examination of corporate retailers, state agencies and consumer organisations involved in the food sector. The analysis explores questions including: * what can the public expect from the state* what limits are there on state action* what are the most appropriate balancesbetween public and private interests in the provision of 'quality' foods.

SOMMARIO

List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Preface Food and the State, The State of Food;6L Chapter 1: Introduction Section 1 Concepts and framework; Chapter 2 Food policy and regulation; Chapter 3 Restructuring and retailing;Chapter 4 Citizenship, consumption and food rights Section 2 National strategies; Chapter 5 Food consumers: the limits of formal and collective representaion; Chapter 6 The retailers: the emergence of retailer-led food governance;Chapter 7 Evolving models of food regulation; Section 3 Local strategies Chapter 8 Local retail-consumption spaces and hierarchies;Chapter 9 The nationalisation of food regulation: coping with space; Chapter 10 The local regulatory interface: enforcement practice on the ground; Chapter 11 Conculsions: retailing, regulation and consumption Appendix: The social research methods employed in the study. Bibliography

AUTORE

Flynn, Andrew; Harrison, Michelle; Marsden, Terry

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781857288995
• Dimensioni: 9 x 6 in Ø 1.15 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 6 tables
• Pagine Arabe: 234