Food, Waste And Safety: Negotiating Conflicting Social Anxieties Into The Practices Of Domestic Provisioning

Sociological Review

Volumn 60, Issue SUPPL.2, 2012, Pages 102-120

  Watson, Matt ^a   Meah, Angela ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Domestic provisioning; Ethnographic methods; Food safety; Food waste practices; Social anxiety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879233054     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-954X.12040     Document Type: Article

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