Value of Food in Everyday Life: Household Waste Analysis in a Rural Environment

0557135 - EÚ 2023 eng A3 - Přednáška/prezentace nepublikovaná
Brunclíková, L. - Sosna, Daniel
Value of Food in Everyday Life: Household Waste Analysis in a Rural Environment.
[Food, Wasted Food and Future. Brno, 27.04.2022-27.04.2022]
Způsob prezentace: Přednáška
Pořadatel akce: Mendelova univerzita
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA20-06759S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378076
Klíčová slova: food waste * rural environment * thrift
Obor OECD: Antropology, ethnology
https://neplytvejpotravinami.mendelu.cz/?page_id=480

As a number of different worldwide campaigns on climate change have been increasing recently, more attention has been paid to food waste from different perspectives. This presentation draws on our research within the framework of the Pilsen Garbage Project conducted between 2012 and 2016 concentrating on the relationship between humans and household waste in different socio-economic environments. In this presentation we aim at understanding food-related practices in a rural environment in West Bohemia, Czech Republic. We took advantage of the waste composition analysis of household waste and long-term ethnographic research to explore the consumption patterns of the inhabitants of a small village. Specifically, we were interested in the concept of value regarding a complex set of factors influencing food-related practices. Moreover, to estimate the financial value of food wasted and discover the differences among the households, we used a method combining direct data from wasted packaging and retail surveys. In addition to the analysis of household waste discarded into official containers for mixed household waste, we explore ethnographically diverse ways food is acquired, consumed, and discarded within households. Approaching everyday food-related practices through the concept of value we argue that players’ understanding of the relationship between food and waste is shaped by classification and flows of value contingent upon social relations.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0331816