Organic food and the plural moralities of food provisioning

Journal of Rural Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 440-450

  Andersen, Anne Holst ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Everyday life; Food provisioning; Morality; Organic consumption; Pragmatic sociology

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FOOD PROVISIONING; MORALITY;

DENMARK;

EID: 84860403704     PISSN: 07430167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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