ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out the book’s conceptualization of sustainable food consumption across urban China and in Guangzhou. It does so in three parts, beginning first by acknowledging a large social science and humanities literature on consumption. The second part conceptualizes sustainable food consumption more specifically, engaging in turn with the framing of sustainability in the food system, prevailing perspectives on sustainable consumer behaviour and choice and theories of practice emphasizing the habitual dimensions of everyday life in which consumption and its environmental and social implications are embedded. The third part of the chapter then develops theorization of sustainable food consumption in cities.
