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Alternative food geographies: Representation & practice

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Couverture de l’ouvrage Alternative food geographies: Representation & practice
Since the late 1990s, agro-food researchers have identified attempts to re-configure food provision around more ethically sound, economically and ecologically sustainable relationships between food producers, processors and consumers. Largely in the context of developed market economies, notions of ‘relocalization' and the ‘quality turn' have figured prominently in discussions about these ‘alternative' food geographies. Emerging empirical research, however, is now challenging some of the assumptions embedded within such discussions. This book critically reflects on the great diversity of debates and practices surrounding efforts to reform contemporary food provision in different places and spaces. The book is organized into three parts. Following a contextual introduction written by the editors, Part One focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues/debates, especially in relation to power, representations and discourses of the ‘alternative'. In other words, how, where and why is the term ‘alternative' deployed? Part Two considers the relationship between public policy and alternative food projects, with case studies that examine some of the ways institutions enroll, represent, support and, in some instances, impede the development of certain forms of alternative food provision. Part Three addresses perspectives and practices from different actors and spaces in the food chain, including producers, retailers, consumers and local communities. Going beyond the usual focus on the global north, the book considers the relevance of debates about ‘alternative' food networks to the global south. It includes empirically-rich case studies from Europe, North and South America, Australia and Africa, which collectively emphasize the variety of representations and practices involved in constructing ‘alternative' food geographies.
1. Introducing Alternative Food GeographiesDamian Maye, Moya Kneafsey and Lewis HollowayPART IAlternative Food Geographies: Concepts and Debates2. Localism, livelihoods and the ‘post-organic’: changing perspectives on alternative food networks in the United StatesDavid Goodman and Michael Goodman3. Connecting social justice to sustainability: discourse and practice in sustainable agriculture in PennsylvaniaAmy Trauger4. From ‘alternative’ to ‘sustainable’ foodLarch Maxey5. Beyond the ‘alternative’ – conventional divide? Thinking differently about food production – consumption relationshipsLewis Holloway, Moya Kneafsey, Rosie Cox, Laura Venn, Elizabeth Dowler and Helena Tuomainen6. Globally useful conceptions of alternative food networks in the developing south: the case of Johannesburg’s urban food supply system Caryn Abrahams7. Justifying the ‘alternative’: renegotiating conventions in the yerba mate network, BrazilChristopher Rosin8. Is meat the new militancy? locating vegetarianism within the alternative food economyCarol Morris and James KirwanPART IIPublic Policy and Alternative Food Projects9. Regionalisation, local foods and supply chain governance: a case study from Northumberland, EnglandDamian Maye and Brian Ilbery10. Governing the speciality food sector: integrating supply chains, sectors and scales in West WalesCatherine Walkley11. Public sector food procurement in the United Kingdom: examining the creation of an ‘alternative’ and localised network, CornwallJames Kirwan and Carolyn Foster12. ‘Bending science to match their convictions’: hygienist conceptions of food safety as a challenge to alternative food enterprises in IrelandColin Sage13. Market-oriented initiatives for agri-environmental governance: environmental management systems in AustraliaVaughan Higgins, Jacqui Dibden and Chris CocklinPART IIIPractising Alternative Food Geographies14. From the ground up: California organics and the making of ‘yuppie chow’Julie Guthman15. Buying into ‘Buy Local’: engagements of United States local food initiativesPatricia Allen and Clare Hinrichs16. Manufacturing fear: the role of food processors and retailers in constructing alternative food geographies in Toronto, CanadaAlison Blay-Palmer and Betsy Donald17. Networking practices among ‘alternative’ food producers in England’s West Midlands regionDavid Watts, Brian Ilbery and Gareth Jones18. The appropriation of ‘alternative’ discourses by ‘mainstream’ food retailersPeter Jackson, Polly Russell and Neil Ward19. Sidestepping the mainstream: Fairtrade Rooibos tea production in Wupperthal, South AfricaTony Binns, David Bek, Etienne Nel and Brett Ellison
Geographers and researchers of in food policy.

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