Alternative Food Geographies Representation and Practice

Name: Alternative Food Geographies Representation and Practice
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ISBN: 9780080450186

ISBN-10: 0080450180

ISBN-13: 9780080450186

Edition: 2007

Authors: Damian Maye, Lewis Holloway, Moya Kneafsey

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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…

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List price: $164.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 358
Size: 6.74" wide x 9.42" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Contributors


Acknowledgements



Introducing Alternative Food Geographies




Alternative Food Geographies: Concepts and Debates



Localism, Livelihoods and the 'Post-Organic': Changing Perspectives on Alternative Food Networks in the United States




Connecting Social Justice to Sustainability: Discourse and Practice in Sustainable Agriculture in Pennsylvania




From 'Alternative' to 'Sustainable' Food




Beyond the 'Alternative'-'Conventional' Divide? Thinking Differently About Food Production-Consumption Relationships




Globally Useful Conceptions of Alternative Food Networks in the Developing South: the Case of Johannesburg's Urban Food Supply System




Justifying the 'Alternative': Renegotiating Conventions in the Yerba Mate Network, Brazil




Is Meat the New Militancy? Locating Vegetarianism within the Alternative Food Economy




Public Policy and Alternative Food Projects



Regionalisation, Local Foods and Supply Chain Governance: A Case Study from Northumberland, England




Governing the Speciality Food Sector: Integrating Supply Chains, Sectors and Scales in West Wales




Public Sector Food Procurement in the United Kingdom: Examining the Creation of an 'Alternative' and Localised Network in Cornwall




'Bending Science to Match Their Convictions': Hygienist Conceptions of Food Safety as a Challenge to Alternative Food Enterprises in Ireland




Market-Oriented Initiatives for Agri-Environmental Governance: Environmental Management Systems in Australia




Practising Alternative Food Geographies



From the Ground Up: California Organics and the Making of 'Yuppie Chow'




Buying into 'Buy Local': Engagements of United States Local Food Initiatives




Manufacturing Fear: the Role of Food Processors and Retailers in Constructing Alternative Food Geographies in Toronto, Canada




Networking Practices Among 'Alternative' Food Producers in England's West Midlands Region




The Appropriation of 'Alternative' Discourses by 'Mainstream' Food Retailers




Sidestepping the Mainstream: Fairtrade Rooibos Tea Production in Wupperthal, South Africa



Index