ABSTRACT Human encounters with waste can trigger reflections on taken-for-granted assumptions about consumption. Taking this observation as its starting point, this paper explores whether and how the introduction of the kitchen caddy and food waste composting at the municipal scale generates new environmental subjectivities in Australian homes. Using visceral research methods, the paper shows that, other than participation in municipal composting, close encounters with food becoming compost do not trigger more experimental or sustainable relationships with food. Rather, they trigger new configurations of cleanliness, tidiness and storage as participants seek to stabilise their home against the disruptive sight, smell and touch of food becoming compost. In unsettling the boundaries between humans and nonhumans, and cleanliness and chaos, food becoming compost produces visceral disgust among residents who are primed through modern home cultures to maintain cleanliness, control and the prevention of nonhuman intrusions at home. The success of municipal composting thus hinges on households’ commitment to ‘sustainability work’ in placing, storing, cleaning and sealing food to reconfigure the modern home for waste recovery. Reconceptualising municipal composting as a co-production of sensory engagement and household practices, we centre a visceral politics of household sustainability at the heart of municipal composting and resource management.

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食物变成堆肥：在家庭可持续性方面遇到和谈判厌恶

摘要 人类与废物的接触会引发对消费的理所当然的假设的反思。以此观察为出发点，本文探讨了在市政范围内引入厨房罐子和食物垃圾堆肥是否以及如何在澳大利亚家庭中产生新的环境主体性。该论文使用本能的研究方法表明，除了参与市政堆肥之外，与食物成为堆肥的亲密接触不会引发更多的实验性或可持续的食物关系。相反，当参与者试图稳定他们的家时，它们会引发清洁、整洁和储存的新配置，以防止食物变成堆肥的破坏性视觉、气味和触感。在扰乱人类与非人类、清洁与混乱之间的界限时，食物变成堆肥会在居民中产生发自内心的厌恶，他们通过现代家庭文化来保持家中的清洁、控制和防止非人类入侵。因此，市政堆肥的成功取决于家庭在放置、储存、清洁和密封食物方面对“可持续性工作”的承诺，以重新配置现代家庭以进行废物回收。将市政堆肥重新概念化为感官参与和家庭实践的共同产物，我们将家庭可持续性的内在政治置于市政堆肥和资源管理的核心。因此，市政堆肥的成功取决于家庭在放置、储存、清洁和密封食物方面对“可持续性工作”的承诺，以重新配置现代家庭以进行废物回收。将市政堆肥重新概念化为感官参与和家庭实践的共同产物，我们将家庭可持续性的内在政治置于市政堆肥和资源管理的核心。因此，市政堆肥的成功取决于家庭在放置、储存、清洁和密封食物方面对“可持续性工作”的承诺，以重新配置现代家庭以进行废物回收。将市政堆肥重新概念化为感官参与和家庭实践的共同产物，我们将家庭可持续性的内在政治置于市政堆肥和资源管理的核心。