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1	"Je potřeba si to naplánovat." Praktiky omezování plýtvání potravinami v domácnostech / "You need to plan it." Practices of reducing food waste in households Pešková, Tereza January 2018 (has links) "You need to plan it." Practices of reducing food waste in households Anotation This diploma thesis focuses on a problem of consumers' food waste. The main goal is to find out how does the consumer behaviour of the target group look like and how does this behaviour influence the amount of food which is thrown into the trash. By using the theory of practice, therefore exploring specific practices which people use for food consumption, it was possible to tackle the problem. Moreover, this approach enabled to emphasize not only the practices themselves but also the meaning which is connected to them. Results of the qualitative research show that one of the biggest influence on the quantity of discarded food has the shopping behaviour like careful planning of food purchases with respect to real consumption. Different practices were found also in other situations, for instance, when older food accumulates at home and it is necessary to process them to prevent them from being thrown away. These strategies are influenced by different aspects like environment, availability or respondent's experience. In the text are, furthermore, introduced also respondents' motivations and barriers which affect their tendencies to reduce consumption and thus minimalize food waste.
2	Information Overload: Reading Information-as-Waste in Contemporary Canadian Literature Speranza, Monica 29 June 2021 (has links) This thesis investigates three contemporary Canadian texts— Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, and Rita Wong’s forage—that treat information as an object that can be wasted and recuperated. Using information theory and a new sub-field of critical waste theory called “Discard Studies,” I explore how the authors studied in this thesis place these two lines of thought alongside one another to examine how the concept of recycling information challenges the material, cultural, and ideological structures that distance humans from their waste. Specifically, I read the event of recycling as an interruptive act that triggers a reassessment of the (im)material connections that tether humans to their waste, vast (inter)national networks of exchange, and environmental crises related to our garbage. Canadian Literature Ecocriticism Waste Theory Discard Studies New Materialism Information Theory Ruth Ozeki Margaret Atwood Rita Wong Repurposing Recycling Materiality Garbage N. Katherine Hayles Canadian Fiction Canadian Poetry Posthuman

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"Je potřeba si to naplánovat." Praktiky omezování plýtvání potravinami v domácnostech / "You need to plan it." Practices of reducing food waste in households

Information Overload: Reading Information-as-Waste in Contemporary Canadian Literature