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Jaworski, Katrina Coventry, Timothy UniSA Justice and Society 2026-03-24 https://hdl.handle.net/2440/151107 xi, 253 pages This thesis examines the agency of food waste in the context of food waste management in South Australia, Australia. Approaches to food waste management have long framed food waste as inert matter to be acted upon, where human intent and action determine how food waste is understood and managed. By only considering human agency, the objects of food waste as a source of agency are ignored. Guided by qualitative methodology the central argument of the thesis is that food waste, as an object, has agency. By following consumers’ relation with food from purchase to disposal, the thesis shows that there are various smaller agencies at work before food waste enters the space of landfill. Coupling the cradle-to-cradle idea of ‘waste equals food’ with idea of the household as a leviathan body, this thesis suggests we need a form of posthuman digestion as an approach to food waste management. Thesis (PhD (Communication)) -- University of South Australia, UniSA Justice and Society, 2026 en University of South Australia Food Waste Agency Posthuman The Agency of Food Waste Thesis This electronic version is made publicly available by the University of South Australia in accordance with its open access policy for student theses. Copyright in this thesis remains with the author. This thesis may incorporate third party material which has been used by the author pursuant to Fair Dealing exceptions. If you are the owner of any included third party copyright material you wish to be removed from this electronic version, please notify the University copyright officer by emailing copyright@adelaide.edu.auopen.access