The ontological politics of freshness: Qualities of food and sustainability governance
The ontological politics of freshness: Qualities of food and sustainability governance
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DOI：
10.1177/0308518x211059834
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发表时间：
2021-11-25
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Baptista, Joao A.
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作者：
Evans, David M.;Jackson, Peter;Baptista, Joao A.
新鲜度是现代食品系统的一个关键特征，但其作为食品质量的工业化生产带来了不利后果。因此，本文将新鲜度作为一个值得关注的问题。在英国和葡萄牙的食品生产和消费的现场广泛的实地考察，我们确定了四个制定的新鲜度。分析放大了塑料食品包装的具体情况，并使用这些法规来考虑一系列有关现实和它们之间关系的问题。由于包装是一个问题，很容易溢出，包括一套更广泛的主张食品，我们认为，新鲜度是一个合适的重点，围绕组装混合论坛辩论未来的可能性。加入机构最近的工作，使关系唯物主义的情感，以承担可持续发展治理，我们表明，这些想法并没有用尽的方式，现有的本体论汇集在政策的关注。最后，我们建议，关注质量的多个本体补充和扩展的方法，专注于对象提供一个管道，把市场的理解到本体论政治的讨论。
Freshness is a key feature of contemporary food systems, however its industrial production as a quality of food carries adverse consequences. Accordingly, this paper approaches freshness as a matter of concern. Drawing on extensive fieldwork across sites of food production and consumption in the UK and Portugal, we identify four enactments of freshness. The analysis zooms in on the specific case of plastic food packaging and uses these enactments to consider a series of questions about realities and the relationships between them. Since packaging is an issue that readily overflows to encompass a broader suite of propositions about food, we argue that freshness is a suitable focus around which to assemble hybrid forums to debate future possibilities. Joining a body of recent work that brings relational-materialist sensibilities to bear on sustainability governance, we demonstrate that these ideas are not exhausted by a concern with the ways in which existing ontologies are brought together in policy. To conclude, we suggest that attention to the multiple ontologies of qualities complements and extends approaches that focus on objects by offering a conduit that brings understandings of markets into discussions of ontological politics.