Trust in Food
A Comparative and Institutional Analysis

Unni Kjaernes, Mark Harvey & Alan Warde Hardback - 240 pages, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, ISBN: 1403998914 Price: £45.00 January 2007 Buy the book

Scandals in food, growth of supermarket power, new technologies and crises in obesity have shaken popular trust in food across Europe. The BSE epidemic, concern over GM foods, dioxin scares and avian flu have placed consumer trust and how to restore it at the top of government agendas. Uncovering surprising differences between countries, Trust in Food examines these issues to challenge the idea of the consumer as a sovereign individual and to demonstrate how consumption is institutionalized within societies.

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Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction: Problematizing Trust in Food
Trust and Food Consumption: Theoretical Approaches
Enquiring into Trust: Some Methodological Considerations
Variations in Popular Trust
Culture and Performance: Trust in Meat
Mobilizations of the Consumer
Buying into Food
The State and Triangular Affairs of Trust
Conditions for Trust in Food
Explaining Trust in Food
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

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