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(Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging

Murcott Anne
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350022119
Publisert
2024-01-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Murcott Anne

Om bidragsyterne

Anne Murcott is Honorary Professorial Research Associate, at SOAS, University of London, Professor Emerita at London South Bank University and Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. In 2009 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Her most recent book is the textbook The Sociology of Food & Eating (2019).

(Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging

Murcott Anne
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Murcott Anne
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
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Surely the most comprehensive study of food packaging ever written, this book takes us on a breathtaking journey through the history of the most powerful yet neglected marketing device. By paying close attention to the development of an incredible range of technologies - glass, carton, metal and plastic containers; jars, bottles, cans, canisters, and even modified atmosphere packaging - she reveals the incredible depth - material, cultural, sociological - of the most tangible, yet often unseen, market surface, and thus helps us better address the underlying challenges.

Franck Cochoy, Professor of Sociology, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France

Food packaging is so easily overlooked, yet ubiquitous and essential. Anne Murcott shows that the global industrial food system could not exist and could not have emerged without a parallel technology made of glass, paper, wood, metal and plastic. Anne Murcott moves fluently through disciplines and around the globe, taking us on a fascinating trip through an unfamiliar circuit of inventors, designers, chemists, drivers, bureaucrats and even freezers.

Richard R. Wilk, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Indiana University, USA

Scholars and activists, concerned about urgent issues from environment to health, are discovering packaging matters. <i>The (Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging</i> provides a rich and timely exploration into how packages assemble markets and shape our relationship to food. Murcott skillfully blends history, sociology, and STS to unpack both the material and symbolic worlds of our modern packaging landscapes.

Xaq Frohlich, Associate Professor of History, Auburn University, USA

Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and entertaining social history of food packaging. From tin cans, glass jars and bottles, plastic trays and stretch-wrap, Murcott shows the importance of food packaging for global food systems. As a pioneering excursion into the many aspects of the history of food packaging, the book examines shifts from domestic to commercial production, the emergence of associated technologies, changes in retailing, implications for policy and practice, along with current concerns about overpackaging. Taking a wide historical and geographical angle, Murcott draws on sources such as trade magazines, manufacturers’ archives, company histories, packaging textbooks, histories of international trade and interviews with key industry ‘insiders’. Written by a leading figure in the field, this book will benefit students of social studies of food production and consumption, of cultural studies, as well as researchers and those interested in the history of food.
Les mer
List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Part One: Putting Food Packaging Centre Stage 1. Ubiquity and (in)visibility 2.Food Packaging: a Technology Part Two: How Did it Get Like This? Early Precursors 3. Bags, Sacks and a lot of Paper 4.Barrels, Casks and Tea Chests 5. Bottles, Jars and Gallons of Milk 6. Canisters, Cans and Canning Part Three: How Did it Get Like This? Industrialised Packaging 7. Tomato Ketchup and Transparent Bottles 8.Ready Meals, Microwaves and Plastic Trays 9. Salad Leaves and Protective Atmospheres Part Four: Where Now? 10. Food Packaging - A Trio of Futures and a Provisional Ending References Index
Les mer
Surely the most comprehensive study of food packaging ever written, this book takes us on a breathtaking journey through the history of the most powerful yet neglected marketing device. By paying close attention to the development of an incredible range of technologies - glass, carton, metal and plastic containers; jars, bottles, cans, canisters, and even modified atmosphere packaging - she reveals the incredible depth - material, cultural, sociological - of the most tangible, yet often unseen, market surface, and thus helps us better address the underlying challenges.
Les mer
Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and entertaining social history of food packaging.
The first book to examine the history and significance of food packaging
This new monograph series pays serious attention to food as a focal point in historical events from the late 18th century to present day. Employing the lens of technology broadly construed, the series highlights the nutritional, social, political, cultural, and economic transformations of food around the globe. It features new scholarship that considers ever-intensifying and accelerating tensions between tradition and innovation that characterize the modern era. The editors are particularly committed to publishing manuscripts featuring geographical areas currently underrepresented in English-language academic publications, including the Global South, particularly Africa and Asia, as well as monographs featuring indigenous and under-represented groups, and non-western societies.
Les mer

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Surely the most comprehensive study of food packaging ever written, this book takes us on a breathtaking journey through the history of the most powerful yet neglected marketing device. By paying close attention to the development of an incredible range of technologies - glass, carton, metal and plastic containers; jars, bottles, cans, canisters, and even modified atmosphere packaging - she reveals the incredible depth - material, cultural, sociological - of the most tangible, yet often unseen, market surface, and thus helps us better address the underlying challenges.

Franck Cochoy, Professor of Sociology, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France

Food packaging is so easily overlooked, yet ubiquitous and essential. Anne Murcott shows that the global industrial food system could not exist and could not have emerged without a parallel technology made of glass, paper, wood, metal and plastic. Anne Murcott moves fluently through disciplines and around the globe, taking us on a fascinating trip through an unfamiliar circuit of inventors, designers, chemists, drivers, bureaucrats and even freezers.

Richard R. Wilk, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Indiana University, USA

Scholars and activists, concerned about urgent issues from environment to health, are discovering packaging matters. <i>The (Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging</i> provides a rich and timely exploration into how packages assemble markets and shape our relationship to food. Murcott skillfully blends history, sociology, and STS to unpack both the material and symbolic worlds of our modern packaging landscapes.

Xaq Frohlich, Associate Professor of History, Auburn University, USA

Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and entertaining social history of food packaging. From tin cans, glass jars and bottles, plastic trays and stretch-wrap, Murcott shows the importance of food packaging for global food systems. As a pioneering excursion into the many aspects of the history of food packaging, the book examines shifts from domestic to commercial production, the emergence of associated technologies, changes in retailing, implications for policy and practice, along with current concerns about overpackaging. Taking a wide historical and geographical angle, Murcott draws on sources such as trade magazines, manufacturers’ archives, company histories, packaging textbooks, histories of international trade and interviews with key industry ‘insiders’. Written by a leading figure in the field, this book will benefit students of social studies of food production and consumption, of cultural studies, as well as researchers and those interested in the history of food.
Les mer
List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Part One: Putting Food Packaging Centre Stage 1. Ubiquity and (in)visibility 2.Food Packaging: a Technology Part Two: How Did it Get Like This? Early Precursors 3. Bags, Sacks and a lot of Paper 4.Barrels, Casks and Tea Chests 5. Bottles, Jars and Gallons of Milk 6. Canisters, Cans and Canning Part Three: How Did it Get Like This? Industrialised Packaging 7. Tomato Ketchup and Transparent Bottles 8.Ready Meals, Microwaves and Plastic Trays 9. Salad Leaves and Protective Atmospheres Part Four: Where Now? 10. Food Packaging - A Trio of Futures and a Provisional Ending References Index
Les mer
Surely the most comprehensive study of food packaging ever written, this book takes us on a breathtaking journey through the history of the most powerful yet neglected marketing device. By paying close attention to the development of an incredible range of technologies - glass, carton, metal and plastic containers; jars, bottles, cans, canisters, and even modified atmosphere packaging - she reveals the incredible depth - material, cultural, sociological - of the most tangible, yet often unseen, market surface, and thus helps us better address the underlying challenges.
Les mer
Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and entertaining social history of food packaging.
The first book to examine the history and significance of food packaging
This new monograph series pays serious attention to food as a focal point in historical events from the late 18th century to present day. Employing the lens of technology broadly construed, the series highlights the nutritional, social, political, cultural, and economic transformations of food around the globe. It features new scholarship that considers ever-intensifying and accelerating tensions between tradition and innovation that characterize the modern era. The editors are particularly committed to publishing manuscripts featuring geographical areas currently underrepresented in English-language academic publications, including the Global South, particularly Africa and Asia, as well as monographs featuring indigenous and under-represented groups, and non-western societies.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350022119
Publisert
2024-01-11
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
224

Forfatter
Murcott Anne

Om bidragsyterne

Anne Murcott is Honorary Professorial Research Associate, at SOAS, University of London, Professor Emerita at London South Bank University and Honorary Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. In 2009 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Her most recent book is the textbook The Sociology of Food & Eating (2019).

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