Plastic Packaging, Food Supply, and Everyday Life

Bibliographic Data

ID15445192
AuthorsLukas Sattlegger (0000-0002-8987-2061, Institute for Social-Ecological Research, corresponding author), Immanuel Stieß (Institute for Social-Ecological Research), Luca Raschewski (Institute for Social-Ecological Research), Katharina Reindl (0000-0002-1662-4155, Research Institute of Industrial Economics)
Year2020
Volume15
Issue2
Pages146-172
Publication date2020-05-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNature and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1558-6073 • E-ISSN: 1558-5468
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/nc.2020.150203
OpenAlexW3028340887
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited43

This 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

Business · Competence (human resources · Economics · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Everyday life · Management · Meaning (existential · Nexus (standard · Political science · Social practice · Sociology · Supply chain · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Marketing

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