This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of
degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts
along the food chain. Degrowth challenges growth and advocates for
everyday practices that limit socio-metabolic energy and material flows
within planetary constraints. As such, the editors intend to map
possibilities for food for degrowth to become established as a field of
study.
International contributors offer a range of examples and possibilities
to develop more sustainable, localised, resilient and healthy food
systems using degrowth principles of sufficiency, frugal abundance,
security, autonomy and conviviality. Chapters are clustered in parts
that critically examine food for degrowth in spheres of the household,
collectives, networks, and narratives of broader activism and
discourses. Themes include broadening and deepening concepts of care in
food provisioning and social contexts; critically applying appropriate
technologies; appreciating and integrating indigenous perspectives;
challenging notions of 'waste', 'circular economies' and
commodification; and addressing the ever-present impacts of market logic
framed by growth.
This book will be of greatest interest to students and scholars of
critical food studies, sustainability studies, urban political ecology,
geography, environmental studies such as environmental sociology,
anthropology, ethnography, ecological economics and urban design and
planning.
