Alternative food networks : knowledge, practice and politics / David Goodman, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Michael K. Goodman
Imprint
New York : Routledge, 2014
Descript
xii, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Alternative food networks: reflexivity and shared knowledge practice : Introducing alternative food networks, fair trade circuits and the politics of food ; Coming home to eat? reflexive localism and just food ; Bridging production and consumption: alternative food networks as shared knowledge practice -- Alternative food provisioning in the UK and Western Europe: introduction and antecedents : Rural Europe redux? the new territoriality and rural development ; Into the mainstream: the politics of quality ; Changing paradigms? food security debates and grassroots food re-localization movements in the UK and western Europe -- Alternative food movements in the USA: formative years, mainstreaming, civic governance, and knowing sustainability : Broken promises? US alternative food movements, origins, and debates ; Resisting mainstreaming, maintaining alterity ; Sustainable agriculture as knowing and growing -- Globalizing alternative food movements: the cultural material politics of fair trade : The shifting cultural politics of fair trade: from transparent to virtual livelihoods ; Price and practices of quality: the shifting materialities of fair trade networks ; Practices and politics of a globalized AFN: whither the possibilities and problematics of fair trade? ; Concluding thoughts
SUBJECT
Food industry and trade
Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects