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Author Goodman, David

Title Alternative Food Networks : Knowledge, Practice, and Politics
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages)
Series Routledge Studies of Gastronomy, Food and Drink
Routledge studies of gastronomy, food and drink.
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
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
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Subject Consumption (Economics)
Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects
Food industry and trade.
Food supply -- Moral and ethical aspects
Consumption (Economics)
Food industry and trade
Food industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects
Food supply -- Moral and ethical aspects
Form Electronic book
Author DuPuis, E. Melanie
Goodman, Michael K
ISBN 9780203804520
020380452X