Research Catalog

Title

Alternative food networks : knowledge, practice, and politics / David Goodman, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Michael K. Goodman.

Author

Goodman, David, 1938-

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• DuPuis, E. Melanie (Erna Melanie), 1957-
• Goodman, Michael K., 1969-

Description

xii, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"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 "alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these foods crowd supermarket shelves and other "mainstream" shopping outlets? This timely book provides a critical review of the growth of alternative food networks and their struggle to defend their ethical and aesthetic values against the standardising pressures of the corporate mainstream with its "placeless and nameless" global supply networks. It explores how these alternative movements are "making a difference" and their possible role as fears of global climate change and food insecurity intensify. It assesses the different positions around these networks from three major arenas of food activism and politics: Britain and Western Europe, the United States, and the global Fair Trade economy. This comparative perspective runs throughout the book to fully explore the progressive erosion of the interface between alternative and mainstream food provisioning. As the era of "cheap food" draws to a close, analysis of the limitations of market-based social change and the future of alternative food economies and localist food politics place this book at the cutting-edge of the field"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies of gastronomy, food and drink

Uniform Title

Routledge studies of gastronomy, food and drink

Subjects

• Consumption (Economics)
• Lebensmittel
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography
• Fairer Handel
• SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography
• Food industry and trade > Moral and ethical aspects
• Food supply > Moral and ethical aspects
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Agriculture & Food

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-297) and index.

Contents

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 -- Rival 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 -- The price and practices of quality: the shifting materialities of fair trade networks -- The practices and politics of a globalized AFN: whither the possibilities and problematics of fair trade? -- Concluding thoughts.

Call Number

JFE 15-8003

ISBN

• 9780415671460 (hardback)
• 0415671469 (hardback)
• 9780203804520 (ebook)
• 020380452X (ebook)
• 9780415747691 (pbk.)
• 0415747694 (pbk.)

LCCN

2011009477

OCLC

690089959

Author

Goodman, David, 1938-

Title

Alternative food networks : knowledge, practice, and politics / David Goodman, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Michael K. Goodman.

Imprint

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies of gastronomy, food and drink

Routledge studies of gastronomy, food and drink

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-297) and index.

Added Author

DuPuis, E. Melanie (Erna Melanie), 1957-

Goodman, Michael K., 1969-

Research Call Number

JFE 15-8003