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NEW PUBLICATION ON PLASTIC PACKAGING, FOOD SUPPLY, AND EVERYDAY LIFE

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Postdoctoral fellow Katharina Reindl and colleagues from Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Germany publish new article in Nature and Culture

"Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life. Adopting a Social Practice Perspective in Social-Ecological Research", Lukas Sattlegger, Immanuel Stieß, Luca Raschewski, and Katharina Reindl. Nature and Culture, vol. 15:2.

Abstract: The article presents practice-theoretical conceptions of societal relations to nature as a fruitful alternative to common system approaches in social-ecological research. Via the example of plastic food packaging, two different practice-theoretical approaches to food supply are discussed regarding their suitability for relating the material properties of packaging to their everyday use by producers, retailers, and consumers: (1) the network approach (portraying food supply as a network of practices; these practices include material elements that interrelate with other elements like competence or meaning) and (2) the nexus approach (investigating the interrelation between social practices and material arrangements in which they take place). Depending on the given research interest, both perspectives have their pros and cons: the network approach is stronger in understanding the everyday use of technologies, while the nexus approach encourages the integration of infrastructures and environmental contexts that are not directly observable within the practice.

 

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