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Alternative Food Networks : Knowledge, Practice, and Politics.
Farmers' markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and Fair Trade goods - how have these once novel, ""alternative"" foods, and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of ""a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Series: | Routledge studies of gastronomy, food and drink.
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Table of Contents:
- Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, practice, and politics; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; PART I Alternative food networks: reflexivity and shared knowledge practice; 1 Introducing alternative food networks, fair trade circuits and the politics of food; 2 Coming home to eat? Reflexive localism and just food; 3 Bridging production and consumption: alternative food networks as shared knowledge practice; PART II Alternative food provisioning in the UK and Western Europe: introduction and antecedents.
- 4 Rural Europe redux? The new territoriality and rural development5 Into the mainstream: the politics of quality; 6 Changing paradigms? Food security debates and grassroots food re-localization movements in the UK and Western Europe; PART III Alternative food movements in the USA: formative years, mainstreaming, civic governance, and knowing sustainability; 7 Broken promises? US alternative food movements, origins, and debates; 8 Resisting mainstreaming, maintaining alterity; 9 Sustainable agriculture as knowing and growing.
- PART IV Globalizing alternative food movements: the cultural material politics of fair trade10 The shifting cultural politics of fair trade: from transparent to virtual livelihoods; 11 The price and practices of quality: the shifting materialities of fair trade networks; 12 The practices and politics of a globalized AFN: whither the possibilities and problematics of fair trade?; 13 Concluding thoughts; Notes; References; Index.