Eating Together in the Twenty-first Century (ePub)

Tamas Lestar is a Senior Lecturer in Business Management. He holds a PhD in management and sustainability from the University of Essex. For several years, he has been investigating spiritual communities and practices in the context of dietary change and sustainability transitions. He taught qualitative research methods, new venture creation, social innovation, and other management and organisation modules internationally, including in China. His research interests include sustainability transitions, CO2 transitions, Social Practice Theory, Post-structuralism; Political Discourse Theory, Ethnography, Dietary change; Veganism; Conviviality (eating together); Degrowth / Postgrowth economy (New Economics), Sharing (economy); Job-share; Reduced working hours, Spirituality, Religion & Pro-environmental practice, Spiritual leadership and organisational hierarchies, Transformative learning; Second / Third-order learning, Eco-communities; Eco-farms; and Eco-tours, Agency for change, East Africa, Asia.

Manuela Pilato is a Senior Lecturer in Business Management. She holds a PhD in Agrifood Business. She has been working in research and management positions in different European universities in the Agribusiness and EU policy sector, including the University of Catania (Italy), the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and the University of Bucharest (Romania). Since 2014, she has been working for the University of Winchester within the Faculty of Business, Law and Sport, expanding her research and teaching interests in Responsible Management, Sustainable Development and Global Issues. In 2017, she also joined the Politics and Society team in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, as a Senior Lecturer in Politics. She has extensive research experience and robust analysis testified by participation in conferences, international networks, publications in peer-reviewed journals, and edited volumes in the agribusiness, environmental, and